f R 0 V I ;jc i a l L I B.l : 7 y , LHoy A- k. .imiTrUtn rr HA""' r ondES'tacas Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PHOIIE 81 STAR V Published at Canada's Most, Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest' VOL. XXXIX. NO. 154 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1950 , PRICE FIVE CENTS rrzr Deafch " Car L fed k e e n B) - (SET A Body of WiHiam Gibb Situation In Korea is Deteriorating round by Motor barge warn Communists Tale. Finest June In Years Is OREENWOOD, B.C. H Out of the rugged British Columbia interior Sunday night came . the story of a woman's courage in British Columbia Police today reported they ; have located the automobile believed to have carried three men to their deaths' as it plunged off the road into the Skeena River, 55 miles east of here June 4. attempting to save the lives of i luwon and Airport TOKYO (CP) The situation for the South her husband and another man trapped in the shaft of an old mine. The rescue attempt failed orean forces is further deteriorating today and despite the woman's' hero'c efforts to pull the men from the ; EASE WAGE CONTROLS? . LONDON Sir Stafford Cripps, Cha-nicellor of the Exchequer, yesterday gave qualified blefalnj to a decision by Trades Union leaders to approve some relaxation of the wage-freeze policy. The state-., ment came as Britain's industrial climate was troubled by storms of discontent on waxe Issues. . Some 6,000 Scottish miners and 4,500 Lorrion meat distribution workers are on strike in pay disputes. Provincial police headquarters . were advised this alvernoon ttt t the body of William Gibb had . been recovered from the death . I car which had been brought i alongside ihe Columbia Cellulose ! power barge Scotia River. The , I car then fell back Into the river, i icy are in danger of being encircled in the Suwon Ketchikan Is Winner Recorded In Prince Rupert June this year had more sunshine Jhan in any other year since and including .1938. There were 157.9 hours bright sunshine, compared with 70.7 in May. June last year had 77.4 hours sunshine and in 1940, 120.8. May 1941 with 179.7 hours and May 1940 with 186.9 hours exceeded the amount of sun- ihine in June this year. '-' " ( "Precipitation at 3 42 in June T. D-inL this year compares with 8.71 OlOrllO DullK incites last year and 6.62 in "j " VUlIlilMJW UUIUlinillg IHUTCWICJIV. he Communist forces entered Suwon last night and 60 foot shaft.- with a chain attached to a Jeep. ' . Leo Morris, 28, and Raymond Galloway, 23. were pumping water from the -shaft. . Morris was overcome by fumes from the air field there has been evacuated. American rce8 were reported today to ow bodies of Don Fraar Take Opener Of International0 nd Don Eraser jr. are BUU Baseball Renewal At First City . , believed to be in the car. Efforts vp h?d ttn lr lirKt direct con- rePn minor action no Amerl- gas pump, oaiioway, at ine top ct with the enemy, meeunj ; (uns yet had. been in compat in o fthe shaft, went to Morris' cot errillw, four of whom were taee to summon Morris' 'wife 1940 I- UAU H'jh temperatures were lj HwlU UJ n !!cd. Bette. Oalloway rigged the chain to the jeep and lowered hlmsefl Otnrral MicArthurs head- PAR1,IA1V75NT REOALLED Prince Rupert baseball team are now being made to recover ' CANBERRA Prime Minis- went down to defeat 7-4 in the the car. er Rohert G. Men'e. an- j seventh lnnnlg of the opener of J ' ' Dl?continued June 14 when , pounced yesterday that Par- ; tne retUrn series at Ketchikan rising Skeena waters , made liront will reassemble July jast ight. I fraP"n2 impossible, the search f to discuss the Korean sitna- Going into the last of the 'or tne vehicle containing the j tionvFe also said that the 8evenlh the game was tied at bod'" of Don Fraser, sr and j vrnitjent had not decided , votnhiian .1llDtr.r, Bn. Don Fraser. Jr., Terrace, and arlfM announced today that reached June 7 and 17, when the thermometer touched 77 TORONTO 9 Two gunmen jinto the shaft : He fastened tie more icu ians imu ni-U Korea. There was no lmmed-, late explanation of these con-llirtliu statements by headquarters spokesmen one in horea, the other In Tokyo. The spokesman announcing Suwon fall added these terse detail: s Six Ked tank entered Suwon, enly 20 miles south of Seoul, the aegrees. Maximum June tern, held up the Northwest Toronto perature last year was 62. Low branch of the Dominion Bank of In June this year was 35 degrees Canada shortly after 2 p.m. toon the fifth. Last year it. was day 'and escaped with an unde- chain around Morns ant.. Mrs. Morris drove the . Jeep ! ahead. Only one body, came up. '.-Morris was dead. . Galloway hai fallen back. . . ' . '''-. V whether , to send Australian ' " , . t . . . , their eye in and rung up tnree ! from to Korea. troops Japan to tlie K'lrran Ilniing umk the Invader columns pushed vide nankins movement uIIhvM, of Suwon. The Red wwnt threatened enclrcte-piU of South Korean forces In e Suwon-Inchon-Seoul I was resumed this morning by the police. The vehicle, beiiev I tallies to put the game on ice for i them. ' ' .' 41 -on June 16. termined amount of cash. j summary for June, 1950: i The bandits ordered the start ' I ed to have been carrying the more men, is thought to have left th3 6he walked to a logging camp to get help. Galloway's body has not yet been recovered. .. ' South Korean capital. But it is not certain whether the fighting has been In Suwon itself or i Both teams score once - Hours of sunshine 157.9 or flve anj a nne of customers hours in 24 days. j noki up their arms. Then Precipitation 3.42 inches In they shepherded them to a base- ' '. KEEP CHINESE OUT . ?' WASHINGTON The United States manoeuvred yesterday to keep Chinese forces, both Nationalist and Communist, from becoming involved in the Korean fight. road on the afternoon of June 4 enroute from Prince Ituper: to Terrace. ' The communique reported nearby. The spokesman said the latest to end the ball game 7-4. Haw- ' ryluk pitched for Prince Rupert, i The Prince Rupert .team, who j took three straight from Ketchi- htln? at the port of Inchon, ;ment vault and closed the door. Fog Alarm On nine days. High temperature rees June 5. 77 de- ' Are Revisitina Red thrust the Communists are "pushing with all they have all along the line."- Belore the fall of Suwon was announced a MacArthur spokesman here had said Am In a note to the Nationalist kan over the week-end, are kovernment on Formosa, playing a game this afternoon Washington warned Chiang- ! anc; one this evening to end the Holland Rock Installation of a radio-con miles west of Seoul. The njiheincri were stiil holding chon, MacArthur said. Sjuth of Red held Seoul and .st f Suwon. the northerners 'titimied to consolidate their TfS. The rommunioue added that High barometer 30.43 inches - . B . Pr,nee RuPcrt June I. Low barometer 29.76 June 22. , Mr. and Mrs. Roy Franks and Maximum wind velocity 20 family arrived in the city by car Charged VJitli Bug Dombing nai-aneK oeiore ne ais- four iour day aay siX-game six-game series series. patcnes any troops to aid the erican troops had gone Into ae- South . Koreans, he should ' (ion and Indicated an engage-' mlles P" hour from tne 80utn- Sunday evening from New West- j Vlar Briefs i i minster for a brief visit. Her- ommuniNt planes had strafed n,ent near 8,JW0n consider . the defences of his own Communist - threatened position. trolled fog alarm' on Holland ! Rock, off the entrance to Prince Rupert, commenced yesterday. It was on this island that. three years Rgo the lighthouse and fog alarm was destroyed' by fire. .' ! 1 Here to direct the erection, of British ship off the east coaat bert, Leonore and Marjorle left Sunday night on the Coquit- LONDON (fi Russia followed up her accusations that the United States was bombing East ! Korea, v Russians Piqued BRITISH IN ACTION A spokesman at MacArthur llam for a visit to Aiyansh. Mr. i and Mrs. Franks and Douglas Korea" At A Glance , ! Germany with potato bugr, .by New Ship Due Soon Admiralty li LONDON The -rfbu-W-d mt.ni. ih.i ia1.i.'. .- . i charging -American Militarists od Suwon and its Important ThrAtlflhrtllf I 3 Fill - Powerful American i TOKYO tare actively preparing for bac :J will leaya.tmorrow a their re- iullding and the installation j turn drive south, accompanied 1 of? the alarm is L. E. Slaght. en-by Jack Franks and Miss Kay Rineer for the Department of and Australian air attacks vir said the Communist victory i terial war. . Moscow radio carried . the charge Sunday night. "At the tually stall Communist armored j columns, which build up bases n.h.hn,.. Tpniipr AlKiutmli-r ThoniDson. At Endako they w.ll i iranspon irom. uinw. MOSCOW The Moscow press said today popular indignation over American interven- Mackenile Comlnr by End of pick up Stan Franks. Formerly 1 elfments of lour or flvs irth Korean divisions. The Reds and supplies for renewed thrusts 1 beginning of 1946," the broadcast : of the typographical staff of the - Navy warships had come -through unscathed in their first fight with North Korean vessels. The combined Vnited States and British fleet sank five or six motor torpedo boats engaged off the Korean coast yesterday. One torpedo boat got away, . Shore targets were also bombarded. t.inn In Korea is SDreadinK Month B-29's pound targets 135 miles . ,,, orkiy ;.ent patrols f uthtr The Job will take about six ' weeks. ; ' Control of the Holland Rock fog alarm will be from either Barrett Rock or Lawyer Island Jights. -. ; American throughout Russia. D.idi Th The com- rnm. . modrniv -auiD. iauy news iieie, xvuy ' rmum inside North Korea A U.S. were gcnt tQ tne United stales '.thward toward i i is now ififni.iT lPfi wii.n i.nR litiiLiiii i. , .. . . . . w imiKi nnrt nnnrttnanor wra viiu . .. cruiser sinus six worui rworean i vessels. . - I bian In New Westminster. bacteriologists who zealously handed over to their new masters "posts. He armen no unitca k' petj lighthouse tender Alexander ilts troop, were Involved and said protest meetings are taking Mackenzle bullt repiaCe the df pito an earlier announce-1 place in factories and office veleran Blrnie Whlch Is being "nt here that Americans had buildings all over the country. lrpr.rt nftr Innir service out of WASHINGTON United States ' their material on the produc-tnarine's, and marine air forces ; tion of bacterial weapons." Illegal Angfing Is To Cost More were ordered to Japan. The air force orders additional B-23's to! Harry Lzfo 'rirtce Rupert, "Scenic Capital )l World," In Eyes Of Visitor ; i the far east. ' , I- ' '! ' this port, will have her trial runs at Vancouver on July 19 and will be here about the end of July to assume her duties here. Capt. Norman McKay of. Birnie, who will be In command of the new vessel, leaves here July 17 io take - iu. .....nt tVin HuHHnru I LAKE SUCCESS Communist ; Local anglers may not know the fact and others may Ignore It but it is Illegal and an offence against the law to carry a ing rod without a licence. Sti- pendary Magistrate H. F. Glassey Fresh Fish ' Pock ; Leaves District '' Tlie freighters Island King, Cipt. Walter, Holmberg, SUndav picked un the first fresh pa'ik f almon from the district . for ipment south, the carid included 3.000 cases from Carlisle, 1.000 cases from Casslar and 1,000 from North Pacific. In addition Fhe picked up 103 ton? cf sacked concentrate, ore from North Korea protests to the Wednesday, July 5, 1950 Prince Rupert is enthusiastically described as . unnea iMauons agamsi, ftmexican BWke, ( Herbert Moses (Harry) 17.8 feet , intervention and "barbarous lV,rt rBtt pnnro Runprt High The Scenic Capital of North America" by C. L. Lock- 5:04 17:58 . 11:25 18.3 feet bombardments of Korean towns DVCr u.c . ;announced yesterday that otten- -the Burrard Dry Dock Co. of arp be dpalt Low 5.0 feet and villages." ' '"t, retired college professor of Nashville, .Tennessee, ho has been a visitor here during the past few days. ' was Mr. Lockcrt's third vmt to Prince Rupert and North Vancouver .oi.ow., , ,n futur(j when u final acceptance by the depart-, before The : ment. Such members of the,. . ... ultimatum . Ali-e Arm. 120 tons of halibut rjre Damage In LONDON Britain is unlikely I to send -troops or aircraft u;i!ess the United States requests them. trate delivered this meai irom weison uros. ai.rorij . w I crew as are to be found here will when he dealt with the cases of Edward, 3.000 cases of old pack be going south a few days after d Bowman and mt CANBERRA Australia sum salmon from Prince Rupert and There were seven fire calls in Captain McKay leaves mons defence council to consider Jnnt nnlv nnp nf which nrovoil since railway construction days and was well known as a cook in local restaurants as well n? . in district camps, passed away : on Sunday In Vancouver where he had resided for the past ! four years. He sustained a ; stroke about six months ago and had failed since then. However, he had been able to visit ' Prince Rupert for a time .early In his final Illness. Mr. Blaice was a native of England and was sixty-four years of age. He came direct from the Old Country tJ Prince compulsory military training. nf ., ,. This was w Nteena Valley in recent years and ne is sun as en- iMiastir a-? ever abut the seen-J - - - y of the skeena whfch he e-! Fairbanks Sees 's as "the gundest and lar;- j , l scale in the world." Certain-; Aerial Object there is nothing in th United FAIRBANKS An object seen ties that comes up to It. he Fairbanks last arts, and that for the SRy " goes , M oen the ... subject lhlrt ot of nd Canyon, Yosemite Valley discussion here. MillUry Mother such places. chins who were each fined $4 will pick up from 4.000-5,000 and costs for carrying flshlrg cases of salmon at Goose Bay to rods without licences. ' ! complete her load. , i I : TODAY'S STOCKS : I $400 damage caused when a gas tank on a car exploded. OTTAWA Canada expects the United Nations will accept 'very gladly" her offer of three warships for Korea, arid the government is considering offeilng Principal officers of the Alexander Mackenzie will be: Master. Capt. Norman McKay. Chief Officer, R. G. Armstrong. Second Mate, Rodney Smith. Chief Engineer, J. Hobman. Second Engineer, William White. Third Engineer, Dudley f (Courtesy 8. D. more, it was indicated reiiubly 1 - . , . i . -1 rr-i nnHn.:i..n I Asian Migration Is Being Studied Dr.' Douglas Leechman, Ottawa, was aboard the Princess Louise when she passed through here yesterday en route to Alaska. Monaay nigiu. . mc wu Rupert. autnoriues nave ichu. ..... any who have clearly observed it, refrain from volunteering opinion. ships leave Esquimau oase Wednesday. But Mr. Lockcrt is concerned wmt the fact that the scenery ; this part of the country Is "t getting the amount of pub-iy It should have on the out-He thinks the trains should Johnston Co. Ltd.) Buffalo Canadian .18 Consol. Smelters 96.00 Conwest 1-15 . Donalda - - Eldona -27 East Sullivan ..... 610 Fourth Engineer and Electrician, B. Humphrey. Following the arrival of the operated on schedules which Alexander Mackenzie, the Birnie "ild permit of better advantage Dr. Leechman was here late in May on his way to the interior to follow Nthe Cariboo trail to Kamloops studying indication of the Asian migration into Canada along that trail. He will continue his studies In Alaska. will be taken to Victoria to be ''Ing taken of the scenery and Giant Yellowknlfe God's Lake .t. Hardrock 7.00 .31 .35 .09 Four sons and two daughters survive. The sons are Harry' ot Prince Rupert and George, D01-ald and Richard of Vancouver. The daughters are Mrs. Dorothy (Stanley) Vickerman and Miss Betty Blake of Prince Rupert. Mrs. Blake passed away heie eight years ago. Deceased was a prominent member of the Knight3 of Pythias when that lodge was active here. The remains are being brought here tomorrow cn the Prince Rupert by the son, Richard, and the funeral it the railway company should doing more to encourage tour- THE WEATHLR Synopsis Some of the fog and low cloud which has been sitting off the west coast Of Vancouver Island found Its way into Puget Sound of the and over some sections lower mainland for a brief tlme Elsewhere over the southern half ' travel on the line into Prince Harricana . laid up. The Alexander Mackenzie, which features all the latest devices in electrical navigation and mechanical equipment, has a power plant of two 500 hp. Vivian dlesel engines with two Forestry Parties On Bug Research Two forestry pathology parties are now operating In the adjacent Interior! One is south of Lakelse Lake, the other is going into territory north of Terrace. Objpct of the siirVeys Is to discover the condition of th& forests regarding Insect infestation: Halibut Sales American Heva' O6V2 Vancouver Bayonne .02 ti B R. Con .02!2 BR. X .' MYt Cariboo Quartz 1.10 Congress .20 Hedley Mascot : .23 Pend Oreille 6.20 Pioneer 2.70 . Premier Border .03 Vz Privateer -13l2 Reeves McDonald .... 2.85 Reno -03 Sheep Creek 1.10 Silbak Premier 30 Vananda '. 19 Silver Standard 1.50- Oils-Anglo Canadian 4.90 Atlantic 2.15 ' Cahnont -53 "Pert. A Photographic enthusiast 'mself, he expressed -surprise Hosco - Jacknife : Jollet Quebec - -5H Lake Rowan ISVi 'at there were not more modem to one reduction gear which Is j of B.C. skies are clear, wuuu.-nm is lnrreastne over the north- 'stcards available here for tour Alaska Strike Now Settled ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CP) Settlement of the carpenters' strike, which held up work on Alaska military projects, was announced at the week-end. A wage increase agreement was an v.-i f th nrovlnce this an Innovation on this coast for. such large vessels. It was neces- I sary to Import the gear from! Lapaska - UtUe Long Lac -35 postcards rally depicting ,e scenery not Just Prince !"pert street scenes, steam- will ,take place in the : city Thursday afternoon from .27 Lynx Grenville Court Chanel nf B.C. morning with scattered showers tind a few thunder showers expected by late afternoon over the Prince George and Cariboo Britain. Madsen Red Lake 2 40 Kristine. 55,000, Cold Storage, Undertakers wlth Rev. Frea "ats and such ' like. Skeena tver and mountain scenes ho Outstanding feature of the in nounced four days after Secre- .39 McKenzle Red Lake .... Antrobus of First Baptist i.n, nf nofcnpp Johnson said of 1 26.6c, 25.5c. and 22.5c terior decoration of the Mac-. ""Honed especially, regions. More warm sunny wea- the strike: "Unless something I Sea Gull, 16,000, Atlin, 26.7c, Church of ficlatlng. Mr. McLeod Cockshutt 2.30 Moneta 28 Lockert, who before his , ther appe.ars t0 be in store for "rernent was Drofessor of Eng- happens In the next few days, it 05.5,. and 22.5c Central Leduc 1 40 Home OH 14.00 kenzle'will be a 3V2 by 2Va foot oil painting,' being placed in the officers 'mess, of the olcTSteamer Quadra, first lighthouse tender Negus BASEBALL SCOltES fh at Kenyon College in Nash- J.'', (ul just become a matter lor na 64.004 1 ..i 0h the southern sections oi me province while the northern regions will continue cloudy. Noranda ue. had visited Terrace before Canadian Falls, 15,000, Booth, milrg here. After three or four on this coast, which was espeel Kenn . Forecast rented by J. W. Hardcastle m In Prince Rupert, he left 'n last evening's train for Prince Clouoy louuy i - - . - North Coast Region morin Artist.. Uniaue . Little damage was done this morning when a partition caught fire at. Antnis Anartments when 8.3c, 27.7c and 22.5c. AnUer, 31,000, Cold Storage, n i ..-t : iHiiaiiiiu - " lurge whence he will proceed wit,h or.r.aslonal sunny intervals the old hnckirround scene for American New York 2, Washington 7 ' Detroit 8, Chicago 4 ' St. Louis 4, Cleveland i National Boston 3, Philadelphia 1 Brooklyn 2, New York Si. Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 8 Chicago at St. Louis postponed. Mercury Princess -54 Royal Canadian 07 V Royalite -. H-25 Toronto Athona - 08 Vi Aurpaque Beattie --- 50 Bevcourt 45 . , Bobjo -12 Little Louvlcourt - -15 Pickle Crow 190 Regcourt , .05 San Antonio 2.50 , Senator Rouyn -25 Sherrlt Gordon . 190 Steep Rock ...;.....:....'....- ' 3.05 Silver Miller 78 . Upper Canada - 2.30 '"th over the Pacific Great todav and Wednesday. rJ 28.4c, 27.6c and 23.5c. occupants were burning off ship is a lighted buoy and In the distance can be seen a vessel "tern Railway. His travelling Atlin, 28.4c, Bruce I, 37,000, change in temperature. Ligni winds. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Port Hardy, 50 and paint. The fire department was called out and had little trouble extinguishing the blaze. 27.5c and 22.5c. . Selma H., 8,000, Co-op. "npanions were Mrs. G. B. ;lser of Charlottesville, Vir-n'a. and Miss Louise Allen cf ashvllle. which is easily recognizable as the veteran coastal liner Prince Rupert. ' ; ,65; Sandspit 50 and eu; run Rupert, 48 and 62. , 1