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Delivyer
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81
,
.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
VOL.
XXXVUI.
No.
9.
PKh(.'E
RUPERT,
b.
C
..WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY
12,
1949
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
D,
DATE
i
ENDED
Over
Alar
Widespread
Search
On
phi
ItcMiHs
in
rnioii
(or
I
in
Vancouver
,
JUVKR,
(P
-San
Jen-f-ate
o
tlie
Martime
Police
Spreading
Net
Vancouver's
Kidnap-Counterfeit
Gang
r
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r
s
Mr
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'if
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Pa
estin
and
Boilermakers
in
,
S
Slispt
liuu
lUi
uuv
the
Vancouver
Labor
jrCLi
last
night.
VANCOUVER
Search
lor
an
alleged
kidnap
and
counterfeit
ring
last
night
spread
across
Canada
as
the
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
stepped
Into
the
hunt
for
a
gang
ehareed
with
.ension
uiosc
irom
a
WORLD
PEACE
WAGE
INCREASE
u
lie
tin
A
two
weeks
ago
with
k
o
r
a,
Intel
national
,.t-s
of
America
dele-
nuijority
of
delegates
the
suspension
which
Jenkins.
SAID
JUSTIFIED
THREATENED
.
I;--'
ilOUll
OTTAWA,
The
Canadian
Congress
of
Labor
said
yesterday
that
it
considered
a
general
keeping
a
6G-year-old
engraver
prisoner
for
five
days.
Ernest
W.
Conduit,
who
came
here
from
Toronto
In
June,
was
the
victim.
He
was
held
In
chains
and
shackled
for
four
days
to
a
bed
in
an
upstairs
room
of
a
Dunbar
district
bungalow
and
then
removed
to
a
cell-like
ciosel
In
an
unhealed
basement.
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British
Foreign
Office
Denies
Bevin
Resignation
Over
Palestine
LONDON
The
British
Foreign
Office,
in
a.
statement
yesterday,
declared
that
recent
developments
in
Palestine
constituted
a
serious
threat
to
world
peace.
Saying
that
the
United
Nations
security
council
was
losing
control
of
the
situation,
the
statement
asserted
that
the
wage
increase
for
Canadian
!
workers
to
be
justified
by
pres-
eiit
conditions.
The
Congress
issued
its
statement
to
this
ef-iect
after
its
executive
council
Iiad
discussed
the
wage
question.
The
amount
of
increases
to
be
asked
will
be
determined
by
individual
unions
in
the
light
of
conditions
in
their
industries
ilier
is
unusually
.set-Kiili
U
Columbia
broad
band
of
high
across
the
province
nl
arras
of
the
Pally
niildr
weather
Is
into
the
MiuUiein
Still
shaken
by
the
experience,
the
elderly
engraver
was
considered
too
weak
last
night
to
Rive
reporters
a
first
account
of
the
ordeal.
He
had
given
his
wife
a
fragmentary
account
DENSE
FOG
IN
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
First
ciense
fog
since
November
enveloped
Vancouver
today.
At
the
same
time
ice
and
frost
covered
the
streets
and
endangered
traffic.
Automobiles
and
street
cars
were
delayed
or
tied
up.
Ships
had
to
move
with
caution
in
the
harbor.
Aircraft
departures
and
arrivals
were
delayed.
"
BATTLE
OF
TIENTSIN
SHANGHAI
Radio
reports
from
the
great
North
China
industrial
city,
of
Tientsin
said
that
the
garrison
of
00,00')
nationalist
troops
had
rejected
communist
demand
for
surrender.
Chinese
officiate
at
Nanking,
immediately
threatened
by
Communists,
have
already
writttn
off
th
city
as
lost.
Although
there
is
and
plants.
c
cloudiness
m
me
;he
interior
ami
over
present
crisis
was
the
result
of
Jewish
aggression.
Reports
current
yesterday
that
Foreign
Secretary
Ernest
Bevin
had
submitted
his
resign
nation
to
Prime
Minister
Clement
Attlee
on
account
of
plo-
,
icy
in
Palestine
were
denied.
.;
Pennsylvania
Miner
Crushed
to
Death
ers
there
is
still
no
of
widespread
rains.
Forecast
i
ist
and
Queen
Char-
earlier
yesterday
at
their
home.
Inspector
R.
F.
Wilson
of
the
Vancouver
cl.y
police
criminal
Investigation
bureau
said
last
nicht
that
the
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
entered
the
mystery
thriller
case
in
connection
with
the
counterfeiting
operations
of
the
alleged
kidnapping
uang.
CAIRNBROOK,
Pa.-A
band
Overcast,
occasional
!
J
ti
1t-'FI"
iv
and
intermittent
of
miners
worked
more
than
thirteen
hours
in
one-man
relays
early
today
to
rescue
a
fellow
worker
but
he
died
shortly
afterwards
in
hospital.
Wil
kht
and
tomorrow.
Some
British
newspapers,
discussing
the
shooting
down
of
,
British
planes
by
Israeli,
question
why
British
planes,
pilots
and
prestige
should
be
risked
in
independent
reconnaissances
instead
of
in
co-operation
with
i
Search
for
the
suspects
is
being
aided
by
bulletins
dis
liam
Wallace.
27.
was
crushed
s.
little
chithgc
in
s.
Lows
toniyht
and
rrow:
Port
Hardy
32
it
35
and
.
40,
under
a
20-ton
rockslide
yesterday
in
the
Cairnbrook
mine
patched
across
the
Dominion
Police
found
Conduit
Monday
of
the
Loyal
Hanna
Coal
Co.
He
was
unconscious
when
freed.
night
chained
to
a
heavy
Iron
United
Nations
observers.
"
CHARGES
DENIED
A
Foreign
Office
spokesman
SLIPPERY
MOTORINO
-
Traffic
crawled
across
Lions
Gate
Bridge
in
Vancouver
as
ice
coated
the
traffic
lanes
on
the
busy
bridge.
By
using
extreme
care,
all
got
over
without
accident.
A
thaw
after
a
heavy
snow
and
freeze-up
made
all
B
C.
highways
dangerous.
(CP
Photo)
chest.
He
was
alone
in
the
J
;
t
32
and
38.
Wd
for
today
denied
Israeli
charges
house.
Thirty
Teet
of
chain
and
a
padlock
had
been
used
to
that
Britain
had
supplied
arms
shackle
both
legs.
Year's
Sawlog
to
the
Arab
states
in
contraven-
Conduit
told
the
jiollce
that
ICE
IN
members
of
the
gang,
who
at
TODAY'S
STOCKS
.CASE
(I'lHU'tcsy
i
i
Johnston
t'u,
)
all
times
concealed
their
laces
with
Ku
Klux
Klan-llke
hood.;
and
were
heavily
armed,
tried
-h
force
hlffrto
tisr
his
engraving
I
rate;
V'.V.
1).
Vance
Tuesday
skill
to
produce
bogus
bank
bills.
tio
nof
the
United
Nations
security
council
arms
embargo.
To
the
contrary,
aa
em-jargo
had
beea
undertaken
"on
a
massive
scale"
in
the
Interests
of
Israeli.
'
"If
there
is
a
threat
to
peace
resulting
from
the
Palestine
situation,
this
derives
from
persistent
violations
of
the
security
truce
by
Iaraeli
authoriUes."
The
British
cabinet
was
called
into
session
today
to
study
the
Palestine
crisis.
fc
eu.se
of
OusUiv
Etnal
who
1
(ritllltr
f.i
1...
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i
The
gang
consisted
of
five
or
k
court
after
lie
had
been
d
up
by
city
constables
on
COLLABORATOR
ARRESTED
WASHINGTON
The
United
States
Department
of
Justice
today
announced
the
arrest
in
Germany
of
a
former
Department
of
State
employee
accused
of
treasonous-
wartime
collaboration
with
the
Nazis.
He
is
Herbert
John
Burgman,
aged
52,
native
of
Hokah,
Minnesota,
who
worked
for
twenty
years
in
the
United
States
embassy
in
Berlin
as
a
clerk
and
economic
statistician.
PHYSCHIATR1STS
SEE
WAR
NEW
YORK
Unless
something
is
done
about
the
growing
emotions
of
"fear"
and
"greed,"
a
third
world
war
is
inevitable,
the
American
Physchiatric
Association
said
today
in
a
warning
which
was
issued
as
an
"objective
medical
document"
rather
than
a
"political
criticism,"
NEW
C.C.L.
DEMANDS
OTTAWA
The
Canadian
Congress
of
Labor
yesterday
gave
the
nod
to
its
unions
to
make
new
wage
demands
and
suggested
that
efforts
be
made
to
have
social
security
provisions
inserted
in
new
contracts
with
employers.
In
a
prepared
statement
issued
after
the
executive
council
had
studied
the
wage
question,
the
Congress
said
.that
it
considered
"general
wage
increases
for
Canadian
workers"
to
be
"justified
by
the
present
conditions."
CONSTRUCTION
MOUNTS
OTTAWA
Canada's
post-war
industrial
expansion
was
reflected
today
in
a
Bureau
of
Statistics
report
showing
that
value
of
construction
had
soared
to
an
all-time
high
of
$1,256,536,000
in
11)47
Figures
on
1948
statistics
have
hot
yet
been
six
men
who
openly
talked
of
their
counterfeit
plan,
especially
of
making
of
$20
bills.
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following
a
theft
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in
a
downtown
A
neighbor
became
suspicious
when
he
noticed
that
no
one
left
called
Kuilty
to
a
Lake
Ktnvau
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Lapa.ska
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Lon
Lac
1.00
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Red
Lake
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Lake
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Cocksliutt
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2.40
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Crow
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4.10
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Rock
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Sturgeon
River
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Miller
.:
37
the
house
for
days
and
called
shopliHing
involving;
the
police.
Th
men
burned
some
papers
(
a
lock
fmru
t
lie
Kaien
Monday
afternoon.
was
laid
by
Joe
usscd
the
clock
after
visited
the
store
a
Output
High
;'
Sawlog
scale
hi
the
Trince
Rupert
forestry
district
last
'year
was
the
greatest
since
1944
and
the
second
highest
for
the
10-year
period,
production
figures
provided
by
the
office
of
District
Forester
M.
V.
Gormely
reveal.
Total
sawlog
scale
in
1948
was
209,030,285
board
feet.
Only
year
to
exceed
that
amount
in
the
last
decade
was
1944
when
production
of
sawlogs
totalled
263,988,494..
However.
1948
production
exceed
that
of
1947
by
about
a
million
board
feet.
Production
during
December,
1948
was
17,331,565,
a
drop
of
more
than
9,000,000
under
November
and
some
8,000,000
feet
less
than
December,
1947.
Pole
and
piling
production
last
year
was
3.100,804
lineal
feet,
slightly
more
than
a
million
feet
greater
than,
the
previous
year.
Pole
and
piling
cut
in
December
was
167,965
lineal
feet,
more
than
double
that
of
December,
1947.
Railroad
tie
production
last
month
was
negligable.
During
the
same
period,
only
64
',z
cords
of
fuel
wood
were
cut.
and
lert
the
house
Itlteen
minutes
before
the
arrival
of
the
police.
Conduit,
who
was
In
the
cm-ploy
of
CIcJand-Kcnt
Engraving
Co.,
had
gone
to
the
house
in
s
earlier,
Lenal
was
CLAXTON
WANTS
WATERWAY
SOON
SAULT
STE.
MARIE
Speaking
here
last
night,
Hon.
Brooke
Claxton,
minister
of
national
defence
.expressed
favor
for
an
early
start
and
speedy
completion
of
the
St.
Lawrence
waterway
and
power
project
in
the
interests
of
"national
defence
and
international
security."
u
Third
Avenue
near
Vamoiiver
Bayonne
Bralorne
B.
R.
Con
B.
11.
X.
Cariboo
Quartz
Congress
lledley
flfa.scot
..
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Eastern...
Ptnd
Orcillo
Pioneer
Premier
Bolder
.
Privateer
...
Reeves
McDonald
Reno
Sheep
Creek
.
Silbak
Premier
Taku
River
Vanunda
Salmon
Gold
Spud
Valley
Oils
AiMilo
Canadian
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Con
Atlantic
Calmont
C.
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Central
Leduc
Home
Oil
Mercury
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1
In
raeific
Pete
...
Princess
Royal
Canadian
.
South
Brazeuu
Toronlo
f
I
with
a
clock
in
his
answer
to
an
advertisement
for
an
engraver.
pleaded
guilty
Tues-
1
ajciiargr
of
wearing
an
ft-'rv.
i.ian's
laoel
button
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sliilioritv.
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Twelve
Children
Burned
to
Death
manded
for
sentence
I'S.
CHATEAU
D'OEX,
Switzer
rMITISIl
WOMAN
ii
iiai:i)
today
MANCHESTER.
Eng.
h
Margaret
Allan,
43-year-old
spinster,
who
dressed
like
a
man,
was
hanged
today
for
the
murder
of
a
neighbor.
She
was
the
first
woninn
to
he
executed
in
England
in
twelve
years.
land
O'
Twelve
children
on
a
Hotel
Clerk
Is
Beaten
to
Death
WINNIPEG,
Robert
Mab-ley,
aged
48,
night
clerk
in
a
downtown
hotel,
was
beaten
to
death
Monday
night
and
a
beer
mountain
1
ml
may
trip
and
a
nurse
died
in
a
fire
at
Lcs
LJCAL
TIDES
Snow
Is
Deep
On
Skcena
Highway
fliursilv.
Jamiiirv
i:i
1'H'i
OiNillons
children's
camp
early
today.
The
boys
and
girls,
from
HO(
Kl
V
M
OKI'S
Pacific
Coast
League
Vancouver
4,
Taconia
2.
Fresno
5,
New
Westminster
2.
San
Diego
4,
Oakland
3.
seven
to
fourteen
years
of
age,
are
believed
to
have
been
the
parlor
waiter
in
the
same
establishment
was
questioned
by
the
police,
Mabley
was
found
Snow
is
deep
on
the
Skeenaj
Highway
between
Tyee
andi
Terrace,
said
Superintendent
C.
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feel
21.5
feel.
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children
of
well-to-do
parents
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on
tne
fIoor
of
the
hotel
lobby-of
A.
Berner,
speaking
yesterday
weather
conditions
along
the
j
u"erlng
from
wounds.
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mui
ue
Beveourl
Uohjo
SCIENCE
AND
RAILROADS
Buffalo
Canadian
,
CohmjI.
Smellers
Con
west
river,
it
win,
he
expects,
remain
that
way
until
spring
is
nearer
and
there
is
more
reason
to
assume
that
winter
is
realiy
over.
So
far
this
season,
said
Mr.
Berner,
the
slides
have
been
many
.often
sweeping
right
across
the
tracks,
highway
and
well
out
into
the
Skeena.
Doitalda
Eldona
Diversified
Activities
at
New
C.N.R.
Research
Lab
Near
Montreal
East
Sullivan
Giant
Yeilowknile
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Lake
Hard
rock
Harricana
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Canada's
continuing
contribution
to
the
science
of
railroading
was
spotlighted
here
today
when
R,
C,
Vaughan,
C.M.O.,
chairman
and
president
of
the
Canadian
National
Railways,
officially
inspected
the
new
research
and
testing
laboratories
of
the
com-
ISLAND
TRAPPERS
ARE
INDIGNANT
Defernfriit
of
Opening
Date
Washes
Out
Their
Revenue
n
JOHNSON
NLVV
TRADE
ENVOY
OTTAWA
ihU.
M.
Johnson,
head
of
the
external
affairs
department's
far
eastern
and
Ani-erican
division,
today
was
named
Acting
Canadian
High
Commissioner
in
Dublin.
He
replaces
Hon.
W.
F.
M.
Turgeon,
appointed
chairman
of
the
Roy
id
A1H
foRCE
MEN
KECUED-
Rescue
efforts
were
litully
1
for
the
crew
of
the
U.S.
plane
marooned
for
over
two
a
Greenland
icefield.
Buffeted
,by
a
100-mile-an-hoir
Vy
at
Point
Ste.
Charles.
MASSETT
Queen
Charlotte
Island
trappers
are
all
but
de-
Designed
primarily
to
evalu-prived
of
their
winter
livelihood
ate
the
merits
and
qualities
of
the
thousands
of
dollars
worth
the
bv
new
regulations
whereby
the
trapping
season
is
deferred
of
materials
and
supplies
pur-from
January
1
to
March
1
by
chased
dailyby
the
railway,
to
'
which
time
the
skins
are
past
discover
new
and
better
prod-their
prime.
Much
is
the
indig-
ucts
and
to
check
and
revise
nation
among
the
trappers
at
specifications
for
the
multiform
the
action.
Muskrat
is
tne
prin-
requirements
of
the
system
and
companies
it
has
cipal
skin
here
and
a
normal
I18
anctiIlary
I
taken
two
years
to
bring
the
season
often
ti
nets
as
much
as
g
of
the
new
labora.
i
ttuuil
c-47
cracked
uu
on
the
lee
at
Narsarssuak,
ureei-
Ainerlc.an
Navy's
10,000-ton
escort
carrier
Salpan
was
0
leave
her
base
at
Norfolk,
Virginia
and
proceed
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il
'i
mnnmtw-
m&M
MWM
Commission
on
national
trans-
P'fl
to
rescue
the
men
from
the
icecap
wim
neucopieia.
were
dropped
by
parachute.
Tris
rescue
plajie
became
portauoii
"d
to
be
marooned
on
the
Greenland
icecap
when
it
was
LINSLADE,
Bucks,
Eng.,
$000
m
proceeds.
The
Change
inuories
mt0
fuU
operation.
INDONESIAN
VS.
HOLLAND
IN
U.N.
COUN
CIL
Pictured
here
during
a
recess
at
the
United
Nations
Security
Council
in
Paris
are
Dr.
J.
H.
Van
Royen,
Dutch
delegate,
left,
and
Indonesian
republic
representative
L.
M.
Palar
(cen
tre,
group
at
right
t
who
is
seen
in
earnest
conversation
with
El
Khouri
Bey,
the
Syrian
delegate.
Paiar
appta:ed
for
decisive
United
Nations
action
to
halt
the
fighting.
Van
Royen
defended
the
Netherlands'
action.
The
United
States
pared
to
press
a
resolution
calling
for
an
immediate
new
truce
in
Indonesia.
while
attempting
rescue
of
those
already
marooned
Harrv
Smith
has
won
i.uuu
pen
a
glider
and
crew
of
two
men
joined
the
two
plane
Accompanied
by
S.
W.
.
Fair-tContlnued
on
Page
3)
the
opening
date,
it
is
said,
will
practically
wash
this
out.
puitin
gfor
hslp.
The
third
attempt
was
successful
and
jrizes
in
50
years
wit
Man
raO
lits.
crews
were
taken
to
safety.