1 PBOVINCIAL tlBHASr, 113 TXCT03IA, S. C. iLnYi OlttlES DRUGS Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NXWSPAPKB Published at Canada's Most Strategic racific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." PHOIIE 81 VOL. XXXVIII, No. 2G0. PRINCE RUPERT. B C. MONDAY. NOVEMRER. 7 1M9 PRTff ptuj? r-rNxn Accident On Skeeiia .Road M ear imwaiiffa L Applewhaite Making Speeches In Ontario 5 Native Killed As Truck Is Driven Off Highway William Bryant, 24-year-old married Indian, was killed and Roy Harris and David Smith, also Indians, were injured and rushed to Hazelton Hospital as a result of an automobile accident at 4 :30 Sunday morning between Cedarvale and Kitwanga, according to advice received at divisional headquarters of the provincial police today from Constable West Member Heard V i4 '''' j , stern Towns jVA Kilward T. Applewhaite, M. P. itiVh Columbia, was guest speaker at the V7 S V - fSfaJ'K eting of the Huldimand County Liberal A-:tkl at Cayuga at the week-end. i.ja'fl by Hay Anderson, M.P., Norfolk, Mi'. ;e pave a w ord picture of Skeena District According to the police report, there were ten passengers In the vehicle, three of them In the Beat In front. of Hazelton, The fatal accident occurred when a truck, owned and driven by Edward Smith, Kitwanga native, while returning from a wedding; dance at Cedarvale, drove' Dip legislative , Coroner Drake of Hazelton is lrc:r.l session oi Dover, on the slmrc of Lake Eric SPEAKS IN EAST E. T. Applewhaite spends week-end telllmj Ontario towns about Skeena. off the highway and turned over, holding an Inquest tonight and It was a 1947 three-ton Chevrolet meantime further Investigation truck. is proceeding. i is the home of the largest frc.Ji iliaiir cl' li verpd a . at Pert Dover COLUMBIA hr found many water fishing fleet In the world. The westerner was very well received at both places and Invited to speak again next spring. EXCITING BASKETBALL .Eilar to liis home -cf Rupert as Port Close Play As Co-ops Down Shoemen BY I PARADE, ORGAN DEDICATION Excitement and High Scoring Merchants Down North Star Basketball fans were treated to an exciting, high- tempt In the final minutes and, although they cut the lead to 4 points, they . couldn't get. any closer before the final bell went ending the game. " " . An outstanding scoring feat In the game was Brownwoods' scoring 12 free throws before n.lss-ing. Doug Shier came up with 1 the second great night from the tor of the rhurr'.:"' new Iim-mond electric organ ! More than 150 Canadian region members and ladles rf the Women's Auxiliary, who marched irom the. Legion hall to the i Church w:.s ii!lt d jmdrv nin-rf. In ,) tin) sinni.'icatit sal Remembrance Wat n( Pi i'KO Ru-Canadian L-fcloii, scoring senior game Saturday night when Co-op gained their first victory of the season by defeating the Pas-' church, filled the centre section previously unbeaten Brownwoods squad. The score was 61 to 57, a third quarter drive giving Co-op a commanding lead they held until the finish. ti n in by Hi1. gift line as he potted 8 out 9, to of the edifice while other congregation members filled the miter rmv td nil extent. .herp Floor play was wide open with j long passes and fast breaking ; kft Co-op Uela o;i to their 1 Mecial seating had to be pr! forwards featuring ..each. . team's.pot niareiii at the halt Kith the, lMi"n Ct J4j,, offense. Sensational shooting score 35-34. match his 8 In his previous game. The game aw tbe re-appear-ance as ,a, .player . of Alex Bill, formerly coach of the local High School team, when he lined up at guard for Brownwoods. There were only 30 fouls caiied Brownwoods' offense slumped The Legion croup march 'd ! tower at the start of the second half and Co-op leaped into the lead with Flaten showing the way from close in and far out put the e c,ore in the higher brackets Co-op held the lead at the quarter 20 to 19, with Arncy's 9 poinU leading the way. The teams .05'i, 11 00 showing that the game was wide from their headquarter behlnj the red-coated ,P.lnce Rupert Shrine Club band conducted by Peter Lien, which uUo led he smartly organized parade baei: Co-op held a 48-41 edge going traded the lead beck and forth j into the final quarter. The as they matched basket for b.is-1 Shoemen made a determined at- trial area which seems most feasible from the standpoint of town-Fits, industrial site and dockage open. This was the third Senior gama in which the margin of victory has not been more than 4 points, giving the fans the hope th..t all the games will be as closely con icilitles for the manufacture oi m. At aluminum. The Kitlmaat area at the head j a title tin A to the starting poi.1', following the service. I Organist Henry Plujin played ( a prelude of Mendelssohn's Hung Without Words" on the church piano prior to the organ dediea-tion-which marked the beginmnir of the service Rev Lawre.ce Siebii offered a bref, dedicatory prjyer commending the new instrur:c.il to JjrriT of Kitlmaat Arm of Douglas Channel, little more than 100 tested. Co-op R. Holke3tad 2, Arnty 16, Scherk 7, Flaten 13, Davis 5, Morgan 13, Menzies. 5 Joe Hau-(Continucd on Page Fot'.r) Aluminum Cos Exploration Key to Central B.C. Future A program of investigations which may lead to creation of an industrial empire employing one of the continent's greatest waterpower resources is being carried on in Central British Columbia by the Aluminum Co. of Canada. Vision behind the investigations is the development of 1.500,000 horsepower' ofi " miles from Prince Rupert,' and only forty easily-negotiated miles from the northern Canadian Na 1 St Ash earner ore busier .03 .05' 2 1 43 m4 .38 .00 5.90 3 65 ,03:, .18 2.35' .04 1 17 .3'i'.j .16' OS 4 fin . .22 1.27 .53 30 1.35 13.25 .14 , 203 . 3.95 . .37 tional Railways line at Terrace, Is being Investigated by Consulting Engineer Col. W. G. Swan. To be established is the feasibility of the joyful service oi Ood, after which he handed the key to the organ to Mr Pluym Tn i hymn to be played on the new organ set Kitlmaat as a townsite and the practicability of running a trans 50.000. This is the promise to central B. C. of the Aluminum Co.'s Eut- electrical energy, most of which will be used for manufacture of aluminum. Involved will be the creat ion of a reservoir 600 square Hits Off Stanley PL VANCOUVER (P The Union Steamship passenger tesscl Chelohsln, which rammed herself on the rocks of Ferguson s uk-TahLsa power scheme. Key to mission rout from the Kemano River power plant site 60 miles to the south. WILL TAKE YEARS Even if all initial problems are it is the proposed 200-foot high dur Nechako River dam, whose siu is now being probed by engineers worked out satisfactorily It will be miles in area and the reversal of the flow of a whole chain of lakes and rivers. Resulting from it may be the expenditure of between $300 mil lion and $500 million, and construction of a new coastal city of a filing mood to tlw spirit of ihe dedication "O mtit, Thou Art My Ood and King." Then as she co!t.r"gation stood In silence, Canadian Legli.n Bugler W. J. Ranee sounded thi 'Last Post." Immediate following this, choir soloist Dr. R. G. Largs sang the .triumphant "There Is No Death." Scripture lesson, whif.li w.iS read by Canadian Legion Presid During the summer, engineers years before any final develop Point off Stanley Park last CHARGES PRICE-FIXING ' OTTAWA F. A. McGregor, resigning combines investigation chief, today accused eleven firms of being parties to a combine which "sought to control prices" of flour, rolled oats, mill feeds and coarse grain in every province from 15)36 to 15)47. One British Coulmbia firm was included in the eleven. TRIPLE DROWNING NANA1M0 Provincial police today continued dragging operations in an effort to recover bodies of three Vancouver Island residents who are believed to have been drowned in Horn Lake early Sunday morning. Missing are Levi Dcnhoff and his wife, May, both aged about 5Q years, former residents of Nanaimo, who have lived for several years at Little Qualicum, and Bruce Ormond, 36 ,Nanaimo. STAYING IN JAPAN WASHINGTON The United States intends to keep troops in Japan for many years after the end of the Allied occupation. DOOM OF CAPITALISM ments begin to take form. Mc- have bored for footings at the main Nechako damsite and made Neely Dubose, vice president of (Continued on Pa2. 21 preliminary surveys of the indus An Toronto .07V2 .10 . .15 .-0 .32 Vi .iC Kt.i r, j ent James Nicoii was iini we second Book of ChronKlea and recounted the death of tin yoi'iig King Joslah who was slain In bat lMltli,lH l.f!l"f night, will be pumped out and refloated tomorrow night, company officials said. . , . ' The 1,134-ton coastal "; vessel was Inbound from Powell River when she lost her bearings in a dense fog.. Fifty-three passengers and ' the crew of ithlrty-if ve walked ashore to Stanley Park over r a barnacled beach. The passengers, carrying luggage and some of them toting dogs in ships crat'ings, climbed down Jacob's ladders to the beach. The tide was out about a mile at the time. The fog last night was the worst to hit Vancouver this year. All marine traffic was halted before the Chelohsin attempted to crawl Into harbor. The ship seems to be in no danger of breaking up, observers said. The seiner Izuml II was also ashore at Calamity Poiat, outside the harbor, but later Millie tle and who was mourned by ids people. NEED OF PEACE Rev. Mr. Sieber In his sermon compared the death of King Joslah to the deaths of so many other young men In the two World Wars within memory a".d pleaded that their sacrifices rr-main fresh In the hearts of men as a warning for the world's great need for peace. The choral anthem, mng by the combined junior and senior 1 choirs, was the W. II. Judc ar LONDON Russians boasted Sunday that, with 1.15 .CI .51 ?", 0.75 .28 .08 .11' .12' .or. .51 .05 '. .04 3.3:. .').; I. GO - A alp ?ifvFANCY I , ' 4 i'l CORN ,4v- ' cptACK. bO ,r- ) rx: Mv.j- a'.8 r W.i . r - ..v ,c ' I t V 7 ' t I . . - - - I . '''' ' rj I " ' " "i nir-jHiiii'frrlt -:-'-DTI mmmmw iiln fit " ' ft mi i "-' --ilimss&mitftmmmmm 1'C an . . 6 L.ic rangement of "Onward Christian Soldiers." Immediately prior to the sermon, the congregation sang 'O 'Valiant Hearts." cUiutt (Continu,ed on Page Four) the atomic bomb in Russia's hands, a third world war would doom capitalism. George N. Malekov, top Soviet spokesman, made this declaration in a speech broadcast from Moscow. "We do not want war and are doing everything to prevent it," he said, reporting that Russia regarded atomic energy as a means of unprecedented advance in peaceful constructions." REMEMBRANCE HOMAGE LONDON The King and millions of his subjects in many parts of the Commonwealth on Sunday observed two minutes of silence in honor of the dead of two world wars. In Britain itself and many parts of the Commonwealth, Remembrance services dur- ing the last few years have been held on the Sunday before November 11, the anniversary of the armistice ending the first world Avar. 2 11 Oft I ,V) ?.. ! O-'a . 4.1 . .37 2.15 New Telephone Directory , A new Telephone Directory is about to be published. All changes of listings must be in by November 15. in writing at . the City Telephone Office. CITY TELEPHONE (262) DEPARTMENT. 'it 'oiiio " rdi)u :! Rtver" "filler Tuesday, November 8, 1949 High 2:41 18.9 feet "AN HISTORIC OCCASION Premier Byron Johnson at Allison Pass receives from Miss Gret-chen Mathers and Douglas Shaw of the Chilli wack Board of Trade, ttie first tin of Royal City corn to be shipped by truck on the new Hope-Princeton Highway. Over 3,000 guests attending this memorable occasion received these souvenirs." (CP Photo) 14:17 21.2 feet Low 8:16 8.5 feet 21:03 3.U irti