VICTORIA, E. c. 7 1(1 S(C PROVINCIAL onriEs DRUGS LIBRARY Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER CTORIA. B.C. Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." PHONE 81 VOL. XXXVIII, No. 28. TRINCF RUPERT, B. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS ii if n c p eads Guilty 0 LOWEST-PAID PROFESSION 0 ARBITRATORS DECLARES Columbia teachers are the most poorly isional workers in the province and the 1 1 between their salaries and those of other aroiimay ir yjiiuBigairy li D. lr is hffnmino- oroeressivelv greater. i t Teachers' Association contended in its NEGOTIATES FOR POWER Aluminum Company Resumes I 1 1 .' .. 1-..-... It r, WTtrit'fl t IT voluminous aocu- by a committee Partially Admits Act Charged Against Him BUDAPEST (CP) Josef Cardinal Mindszenty told an Hungarian people's court today that "I plead guilty of having committed the majority of -those deeds I am charged with.'' Mindszenty ar.d six others are being tried on charges of .treason, spying and iuiiers. was pre- TWO SIDES L. Dryer of Van-iM-omoanied the Talks With Government On his return from Prince Rupert to Victoria last week, Hon. E. T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests, said he was 1 ' 1 vA it V Or UliPult bit ration board hearing Wednes-for the teachers. resuming conversations with McNeely Du Bose, vice-presid i black market dealings. ent of the Aluminum Company Mindszenty acknowledged that ibers consisted oi rincr Vancouver. Ovens, Vancou-rpiesentative, !). and pman, Kelowna, he wrote a letter offering to work ' for- peace 1etween the irurcscniauve. Living maex Communist - dominated government and the Roman Catholic Church if his trial was put off. , hearing by thr salary po.si- The Cardinal's former secre uue iumiuiiuw tary. Rev. Ondras Zakar, also of Canada, on the company's proposed hydro and aluminum plant development on the British Columbia coast. A press despatch from Victoria to the Vancouver Sun was to the effect that, Mr. Du Bose is seeking what he calls a satisfactory arrangement with the government on the power scheme. This would involve not only the rental for use of waterpower but such other factors as compensation the company would be required to1 pay ors, mauve iu IS IOO l"W pleaded "partly guilty" but said he had only followed the orders Teachers' In- of his superiors. ,.(1, is "not Kecp- Key to the dispute between thu Prince Rupert School Board and the Prince Rupert Teachers' Association, is the proposed wage scale to cover district teachers for 1949. The arbitration board white h heard arguments Wednesday, was concerned mainly with the opposing- claims on this matter by each side. Given below are the teachers' demands and, the counter proposals by the School Board. Teachers Ask : Elementary teachers' salaries $1,850 to $3,200. Secondary school teachers' salaries $2,200 to $4,000. In addition they ask $150 annual "increments," salary Increases based on experience as teachers. The above scale Is similar to the one negotiated recently at Lake Cowi-chan, plus $-00 annually to Mindszenty's offer to work for peace was refused. His letter, said the Cardinal Iip standard of income of other mmunity Is more ;p." nil who is head of the Roman Cath olic Church !n Hungary, admit for timber or other lands that V.C. PARLIAMENTARIANS Three members or Parliament, all Victoria Cross winners, chat about the new session which started in Ottawa last week. Left to right, they are: Maj.-Gen. G. R. Pearkes, (P.C.-Nanaimoi ; Lt.-Col. C. C. Merritt, (P C. Vancouver-Burrard) ; and Brig. M. F. Gregg, veterans minister and Liberal member for York-Sunbury. C. P. Photo) OTTAWA 0 Canadians will ' learn tomorrow whether the cost of living Is reeling on the way down. At noon (Pacific Coast time) the Bureau of Statistics will release the cost of living index and disclose whether the official barometer of living expenses is actually on the downward path. The index will cover price trends in the holiday period between December 1 and January 1. would have to be flooded, ted "grave errors" in his fight against the church-state 1 changes for right-of-way power lines and other points affecting The trial opened today be costs. Prince Rupert's d on fish and Mr Dryer cited -)( salmon and ii sis Indicative fore a five-man court in a tiny courtroom holding only about Farm Newspaper Stops Publication j SUMMERS1DE, I'.E.l. - j Another newspaper has ceased i publication alter 69 years. Tills; 100 people. Mindszenty is the first Rom fmiriit of concv- an Catholic cardinal in modern To Tolerate No Russian Maneouvres Is the Prince Edward Island times to face trial in a civil criminal court. TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesy S. D. Johiuitcm Co. t,td.) tlir last eight ,id here lor sal--.vas 221 percent , 1939 while the i'M halibut fish- COMPROMISE AWARD TO TEACHERS ARBITRATION HOARD MEKTS HALF 1) KM AND A compromise aw ard which will 'cost city taxpayers $13,541 above the 1948 salary cost, was handed down this morning by the arbitration board which Wednesday heard representations by the Prince Rupert Teachers' Association and the School Board in their 1919 salary dispute. The award is just about one -half the amount requested by the teachers for the 1949 increases and is greater than the amount suggested by the school board. It is 20 per cent greater than the 1940 B. U. Teachers' Federation salary schedule and provides an additional $201 a year to cover higher living costs in this district. Maximum and minimum rates of pay awarded for element Agriculturist, a weekly. The reason given is "lack of capital" as well as steadily increasing cost of material. Vancouver I port had risen West Is Bayunne .06 WASHINGTON D. C. (P The United States served notice on the world today that it -will allow no Russian manoeuvre to Bralornc 9.50 salary paid !': icachers in ia:i9 jil the barbers' ' t it pace with the TO EXTEND FISHERIES disrupt growing unity oi. nou- communist western powers. compensate for the higher cost of living In a northern area. The School Board's counter-proposal: Elementary School Teach-cr.i $1,700 to $2,800. Secondary School Teachers, $2,000 to $3,300. The proposal by the Board Is an Increase of $100 more thaii the 1948 uegotlated scale for both elementary and secondary school teachers here at minimum and maximum levels. The Board also pro-1 poses retention of the $100 i "increment" scale In force I last year. To meet the tcach-! rrs' demands, the Board claims, would cost an addl-j tlonal $20,525 in the salary ! budget. Divided Mountain Differential ... Causfnff Split t Freight ' Rates Hearing OTTAWA W ' The western That was the significance seen by diplomatic officials here in a statement of Secretary of State Dean Achcson rejecting WASHINGTON . Active HbepN j have been taken by the Uniied ary ami secondary school teacners aire as lollows: Elementary: $1,760 to $3,080. .Secondary: $2,120 to $3,800. The increases will boost total school salary costs in the district to more than $130,000 for 1949. B. R. Con .03 Cariboo Quart 1.36 Congress 05 B. R. X. .. .12 Hedley Mascot .. 58 Pacific Eastern 08 Pend Oreille 5.85 Pioneer 3.40 Premier Border 04 Privateer 20 Reeves McDonald .... .10 Reno .06 Sheep Creek a 1.50 States Rovrrnnieht to develop new fisheries and iishiug industries in the central and -southwest Pacific. The Navy, with headquarters in Guam, recently opened areas once controlled by Japan, to licensed fishing fleets. The 80th Congress au Belcher Resigns Parliament Seat provinces will find themselves divided within the next two days before the Board of Transport Commissioners over the removal of British Columba's mountain differential freight rate. ' British Columbia, calling for TIGHTENING UP BLOCKADE - Premier Stalin's latest declaration of willingness to hold a meeting with President Truman. American diplomats in western as well as eastern Europe were expected to make the most of this new and detailed statement of Washington's determination to make no direct LONDON, 9 John Belcher turn." Tie ttVi-raRT- K. . f would have been ; ' 21 jpcrct nl of $1,350. it. was $2,22B," Mr. "'ed. draw attention to rune net earnings s f. (xtI halibut fi.slier-ItK'.ilb; earnings from A and grey fish livers, r;igc jrus $3,122 per an-t. SM9 iy . it is not un-ik t:it the maximum i'' t( leineiilary tcacii- .i'e this figure." - 7 coiitended Hiat 1 ty the city lo un- 't$' n could be used ej'if the increase in JNs between 1942 i biuuse the ''entire I former Parliamentary Secret .38 Vi .35 .37 .15 .09 Silbak Premier Taku River Vananda Salmon Gold .... Spud Valley .... erasing of the higher rate, will I'GOOD TILUCUM" get qualified backing from Al (ask) berta but will run into opposi ary to i-lio Hoard oi t racie, w-day resigned as Labur Member of Parliament for Sowerby. Earlier he had resigned his ministerial office after giving evidence before . the tribunal deals with the Soviet Union atN tion from Manitoba. The coast province seeks an the possible expense of other countries. IWRL1N (Pi The western powers tightened their counter-blockade against the Russian sector of Berlin today. Western Bi rlln's German police placed (Xtin patrols at section boundaries. The police had- orders to stop any illegal outright and immediate re which investigated . corruption An electric toaster left burning on a kitchen in the home of E. .II. Hicks, 714 Fraser St., burned through two layers of fire resistant wall surface and started a blaze that did about $5 damage to the building at in government circles. VANCOUVER DIES VANCOUVER -milk. Albert Harris, one of the last remaining links with the past In Vancouver, died here yesterday. Friend of the Indians who knew him as "Good Tilllcum," he swung thorized the Fish and Wild Lite Service to conduct explorations to determine I he' maximum development of high seas fishing resources in the territories and island possessions. U.S. PILING UP-WAR MATERIALS WASHINGTON The United Stales government has ordered a speed-up In Its $3.700.000,0(,C program of stock piling war materials, wilh the result that some civilian products may become .scarcer. BULLETINS moval of the differential but Manitoba, headed by city of Winnipeg pleas, claims the rates should be related to operating costs and the railways claim that mountain costs justify the differential. 01 ft.- c vie employee's 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. The twin l he local tax- fire was put out by city firemen who answered the call. , a hammock in Stanley Park In 1889. He was 78 years of age. 'f fML' for common ft' nls an hour while f per hour. These trading in Items which the Russian zone wants lo obtain from western Berlin. Paris Offered For Slalin-Truman Meet PARIS id Premier Henri (iieullle yesterday offered Paris as a peace meeting place for Premier Joseph Stalin of Soviet Russia and President Truman of the United Slates. iiw asking a fwr- WHO WRIvtKED PARLEY? OTTAWA A new attempt was made yesterday in the lliiuse of Commons to fix blame for failure tf the 1915-Ki Dominion-provincial conference. Justice Minister Gar-son placed the blainc on Quebec a-inl Ontario . but Johil Difenbakrr (Progressive-Conservative, Lake Centre), tossed it back on the shoulders of the federal government. i 25 ci iits an hour. STILL NO RELIKF VANCOUVER There is no relief from the long cold spell which has brought a power crisis to Vancouver. More snow fell since yesterday afternoon and there was five inches downtown and eight inches on the upper levels today. At imon the thermometer read 31 and snow was falling. Tonight 26 above is forecast. Victoria and Vancouver Island had more snow last night and up island 'her received the as thn laborer, DEMANDS HIGH IN FACE DROPPING LIVING COSTS, SCHOOL BOARD SAYS Salary increases asked by the Prince Rupert Teachers' Association for 1949 would mean an increase of 22.7 percent over the 1948 scale in the face of "a decreasing cost of living index," Frank Wilson, advocate for the Prince Rupert" School Board, de- WOODWORKERS ASK SIX DAYS SPOKANE (f -C.1.0. International Woodworkers of America will ask northwest lum f'Tiisr- salary lor OLDEST CONTINENT Geologically- Australia is believed to be the oldest of the continents, being the most lev-' el In surface and the most regular in outline. . i III! PillTP 21 ber operators for a six-hour Mai i il:r T"""'' " - vsis thero was five inches. Maiahat ciareci Wednesday at the arbitration board hearing Highway was so dangerous it on teachers' salaries at the Civic M-lnMir period in '''ruble .snow fell day In negotiations which unexpected to open soon, Union leaders said today.' Other demands include a general wage increase- of ten cents an hour. l11"' province pnii- Centre. "This," said the Chilliwack lawyer, "is a remarkable request to make." "The teachers' request is for an elementary minimum of The boards of arbitration appear to have varied. Those most fav7 orable to the teachers have considered that the teachers are entitled to a full cost of living adjustment. Those which however, is 'Nurd over n. 0. I"""': for tomorrow l'-H'S and lnwnr Inni. LOCAL WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES John Victor leomun, lormer operator at Digby Islund wireless station and more recently aboard thn lighthouse tender Albernl, died yesterday morning in Vancouver. He had gone south last Thursday "'"lies and North iV itl snow flur-in'd tomorrow. h",y (2d,, coui. $1,850, an elementary maximum ' J pay a little more attention to of $3,200, a secondary minimum tne problems of school boards of $2,200 and a secondary niaxl-1 nave feit that the teachers mum of $4,000 with increments, were entitled to a partial cost of $150. The overall effect is0f nvmg adjustment, an immediate Increase of $26,525,' "None of them have taken the an increase of 22.5 percent on. stand that the teachers are en-negotiated the basis of a salary schedule titled to more than the cost of only 12 months ago. This is surely a remarkable re-jllvill6 adjustment- was closed. There is enough water to maintain power here for 28 days providing strict restrictions are observed. Otherwise it may last only ten days. Prayers for rain have been offered in Catholic churches. TWO PLANE CRASHES QUEBEC Ten persons were killed in two separate plane accidents in Eastern Canada yesterday. Ivt (Quebec six were killed instantly and two died later when a St. Lawrence Airways plane plunged nose down into an air strip at Baie de la Trinite shortly after the take-off. Two others were critically injured. Two were killed when a plane crashed into the ice of Lake Simcoe, north of Barrie, Omtario. They were an American couple flying their own plane from Pittsburg to North Bay. fMl nd hluhs Ilai-du no to- and ince !!1 iiiwl jr. i"1 night lor lurtiier examination and treatment after having quest to make." Mr. Wilson presented While the increase sought by the teachers is 22.7 percent press f t rT4A;' HC undergone surgery In the kballl Prince Rupert General Hospi clippings in support of his claim higher than last year, the actual that the country's cost of living $25,525 Increase would mean u index is on a "definite down- 35.5 percent boost to the amount tal. The funeral will take place Saturday afternoon In New Westminster from the furnished by the taxpayers for teachers' salaries, he argued. ft A juver rrows 1 vs. Continued on Page 3) ward trend" and that on the basis of the overall cost of living Increase in 1948, the most the teachers would be Justified in asking would be an eight percent Increase over the 1948 level. ce Rupert MiMi.am-in m il ' T ill Bowell & Son mortuary. Mr. Yeoman, a single man, was horn In 1919 In this province. He eanie to the Digby Island station in. March 1916 and transferred to the Albernl February 1947. He had made his home in the city with his mother who went south with LOCAL TIDES '""l THU US. '''and 10 0 p.m. Game, 7:30 Friday, February 4, 1949 rtUJi'siMfcni, U.F.A.W.U. SPECIAL MEETING WAGE CONFERENCE REPORT Oddfellows' Hall, 4th Ave. East FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 7:30 P.M. (29) WHFRK 10 PERISHED The worst lire m cape Mieion nisiory cuumt-u me uvea ui muc ou rcn and one adult a few days ago. Eight of the dead were children f Mr. and Mrs. William MacKeiuaii who escaped with their one remaining child.. Edward Wiseman- and his seven- ve ir old daughter, Mary, were the other victhm , . This photo shows the gutted house. On the nJhf nnstairs Is the bathroom window from which six of the children tried to escape, rtgnt, up.-." (Ci ? Pllot0) High 5:04 18.8 feet, mviuiaoB. 17:16 16.6 feet' "There have already been a Low 11:26 7.7 feet number of arbitrations in this 23:14 7.7 feetprovince since December, 1948. him. His father died about a year ago. There is a married l!t included! sister at EndaKo.