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CENTRAL
BK1T1SH
COLUMBIA'S
KXWSPAFEB
t
Published
at
Canada'g
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
PHONE
81
VOL.
XXXVIII,
No.
183.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B,
C,
SATURDAY,
AUGUST
6,
1949.
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Killed
01
i&cua
d
orsafin
y
dikes
ETHundrad
Attack
Routs
Ground
Forces
In
War
Games
Cities
Nigh
Levelled
Including
One
Capital
Ui
on
Eagle"
By
NEW
SPEAKER
FOR
SENATE
AMETHYST
CREW
STAYS
ON
SHIP
MONO
KONQ
?)
The
here';
Eight
Girls
Seeking
Title
Srveo
From
Prince
itupcrt
and
One
From
Terr
ate
Would
Be
"Miss
r.N.E."
ian
Army
Tests
QUITO,
Ecuador
(CP)
Rescue
parties
said
today
that
more
than
500
persons
were
killed
in
a
series
of
sharp
earthquakes
which
shattered
a
dozen
mountain
cities
and
towns
of
Ecuador.
Ambato,
provincial
capital
of
55,000
persons,
re-por'Aid
200
dead
alone.
These
are
said
to
have
been
:
:
.mostly
children
caught
In
a
Instruments
I
himhlinrr
pcifVioHrol
,
i
The
enemy
inflicted
a
ir
i
un
nn'minrl
fmvc
fact
exercise
ragie,
banana
s
nent.
mu
upc-iauou
eon-
Eight
girls
have
turned
in
entry
forms
for
the
"Miss
P.N.E."
beauty
contest
which
Is
being
lipid
on
the
Capitol
Theatre
stuge
on
Monday,
Tuesday
and
Wednesday
of
next.
week.
The
winner
of
this
contest
will
be
"Miss
Prince
Rupert"
and
will
represent
this
city
and
North-
ern
British
Columbia
at
the
!
rr.cllic
Naticnal
Exhibition
being!
held
in
Vancouver
at
the
latter
j
'
part
of
Aitcust.
"Miss
Prince
bombers
and
twelve
Har-
R"P"rt"
will
compete
with
four-
!
and
the
southern
coast,
'
teen
other
girls
from
varjoui
able
cloudiness
is
expected
to
de-
Iw,t"'
the
Province
for
the
tll,
"f
"Miss
P
N
E
"
fi
HT
r..
M
...111
1
r.".,.
will
HWilc
a.
PERSONALITY
the
IN
MID-EAST
Is
(By
SIMON
ALLAWARDI)
DAMASCUS
(API
An
explosive
new
personality
has
appeared
In
the
Middle
East:
Husnl
El
7alm.
dictator
-
president
of
35
Syria.
j
Already
his
ambitious
reform
program
has
brought
comparisons
to
the
late
Kemal
Ataturk,
ed
the
poker
-
playing,
dictator-president
who
between
1923
and
1938
turned
Turkey
from
a
backward
country
Into
a
modern
power.
'
.
.
Zalm,
a
stocky,
aggressive
tidier,
still
has
a
long
way
to
go
before
he
will
rate
with
Ataturk.
But
since
he
emerged
from
a
'
life-time
of
army
obscurity
and
seized
power
last,
March
30,
he
has
come
a
long
way,
-
.
From
the
day
he
grabbed
the
reins,
Zaim
has
pressed
re
forms.
He
Introduced
price
control
Into
this
lnflatlon-rld-V
den
country.
Merchants
who
lg-
1
nored
regulations
were
publicly
whipped.
Prices
skidded
down-
ward.
Violations
stopped.
JluUU
scnolar.shlp
trom
tlie
fcx-
10
Dmig
rain
to
me
iioruicrn
hibltion
Association
8nd
an
all-
coast
tonight
and
Sunday
mora-expense
trip
to
Hollywood.
Ing.
Several
local
merchants
have
Forecast
FATAL
BKF.lt
PARTY
HAMILTON
One
man
was
killed
and
two
others
were
wounded,
vr,-.
seriously,
in
a
wild
fig
;U
ai
ncar'jy
Winoni
early
today.
Murder
charges
were
laid
acainsf
33-year-old
Fdward
Richards,
beer
waiter,
accused
of
slaying
25-vear-old
Richard
Slifka,
naval
veteran.
Slifka
came
from
Vancouver
a
year
ago.
A
fight
started
when
a
party
turned
wild
after
more
liquor
had
been
refused.
Wounded
are
Charles
Buhner
and
Vernon
Parrington.
I
Ml'ROFR
IN
CRIME
BIRFVU
l
IIONOLl
LC
Mrs.
Mary
j
Bartholcmew,
19,
taxi
dancer
ran
into
the
crime
prevention
bureau
last
week,
seeking
protection.
Finding
the
Bureau
manned
only
by
an
unarmed
!
clerk,
she
locked
herself
in
the
washroom.
Her
husband,
Francis
entered,
climbed
to
the
transom
and
thol
his
wife
dead,
then
commuting
suicide.
'
1
"
t
'
-mo
n
y
H."
.
''
1
ji'L:i-v&i
ON
INSPECTION
TRIP
In
the
course
of
a
western
inspection
tour,
J.
P.
Johnson,
vice-president
In
charge
of
western
lines,
Canadian
National
Railways,
spent
a
few
hours
In
Prince
Rupert
yesterday
afternoon.
Besides
inspecting
the
company's
local
'
properties,
Mr.
Johnson
paid
a
visit
to
the
Columbia
Cellulose
rayon
mill
construction
at
Watson
Island.
Accompanied
by
C.
A.'Berner,
divisional
superintendent,
he
proceeded
East
on
last
evenings
train.
OTTAWA
Prime
Minister
L.
S.
St.
Laurent
yesterday
announced
I
he
government
nomination
of
Ellie
Bureaugard
of
Rougemont,
Quebec,
to
be
speaker
ol
the
Senate
on
the
opening
of
the
twenty-first
Parliament.
He
will
succeed
Senator
John
II.
King.
MISSING
MAN'S
BODY
IS
FOUND
An
inouest.
was
set
hv
Coroner
m
m
fiii,n
fr.,-
1
vi,.t
--.,1'
afternoon
to
determine
tin'
cause
of
death
of
Robert
Sam-
pare,
19-year-old
fisherman
who,
disappeared
from
Sunnyslde
Cannery
on
July
19.
The
missing
man's
body
discovered
at
4:30
Friday
after-1
noon
by
Eddie
Benson,
his
uncle
i
the
nlnnn
lh
SLn
'
Slough
a
short
distance
below
Inverness
Cannery.
Benson
and
his
son
were
heading
for
Nelson
1
Bros
cannery
at
Purt
Edward
hi
the
boat
rtobet
V
t
Kamnare
who
came
from
1.
,....,.....,
..,.
,ui
,,t
Cassiar
Cannery.
Apparently
had
visited
friends
at
Sun
nyslde
and
had
left
to
return
Cassiar
when
he
disappeared.
His
body
was
found
floating
in
the
water
by
his
uncle
and
cousin.
C.P.O.
James
Campbell
and
AB
David
Kldd
of
II
M
C.
S
Ontario,
now
In
port,
were
both
formerly
stationed
at
Prince
Rupert
with
HMC.S.
Chatham.
living
as
they
travel
in
Scout
routine.
The
party
consists
of
O.
H.
Weaver,
Scoutmaar;
Stanley
Pemberton,
assistant
scoutmaster:
!
Clifford
Thompson,
chair
man
of
Mount
Clemens
district
committee!
James
English
of
New
York,
associate
editor
01
t
1
1
Xff..,ria
anH
Mont.i-
DUJ"
-
'
fied
with
the
national
head-
nuarters
of
Boy
Scouts;
Clark
'
.
...
.,
ei
lnomosoil.
imvri,
uiiu
wvwvt
Nell
Thompson,
Tom
Falk,
George
Pemberton,
Roland
Feigner,
Delmer
Towcll,
Dale
Cummins,
Robert
Cox,
Dale
Wine.
Eddie
Strand,
Dale
Stal-
tenow,
John
Post,
Larry
Orlf
-
flth.
Harold
Townsend,
Bill
Strasen,
Charles
Taylor,
Keith
Balch
and
Gerry
Thompson.
naval
slxp
methyst
will
return
to
the
United
Kingdom
In
'a
month.
The
Admiralty
said
tlu
crew
iiad
been
given
the
optioi:
of
Dying
home
or
manning
Uit
ship.
They
elected
to
sail.
THE
W
LATHER
Synopsis
Skies
along
the
southern
coast
were
clearing
slowly
tills
niorn-
itig
as
drier
air
moved
into
the
area
from
the
west
and
sunny
skies
should
prevail
In
this
area
Sunday.
Except
for
the
eastern
section
of
the
southern
interior
velop
by
this
afternoon.
Another
Florin
centre
is
developing
in
the
f
I
ttlf
r,f
lln
lrci
n
rt
ic
vniMiloH
West
Coast
of
Vancouver
is
land
Sunny
thir
afternoon
and
Sunday
morning.
Cloudy
Sun-
day.
afternoon.
Little
change
lr
temperature.
Light
winds.
Lows
tonieht
and
highs
Sunday
At
rmi
naruy
to
auu
North
Coast
Cloudy,
becoming
overcast
tonight
and
Sunday
Intermittent
rain
tonight
anc
Sumlay.
Little
change
in
tem-rrrature.
Winds
light,
inerras-
hiK
to"'
southeast
(20
m'p.h.t.
Lows
tonight,
and
high?
SundayAt
Maet
and
Prince
Rupert
50
and
60.
FISH
SALE.6
Black
Cod
Teeny
Milly,
'28,000,
Storage,
9c
and
5c.
Tramp,
11,000.
Storage,
9c
and
5c.
Atll.
11.000.
Co-op.
Ooncy,
7.000,
Co-op.
Cape
Spencer,
10,000,
Co-op.
AIR
PASSENGERS
To
Vancouver
(Saturday)
Miss
L.
Steffens.
C.
C.
McKen-zlc,
W.
M.
Brovfti,
B.
A.
Cook,
J.
Faires,
B.
Hooker,
J.
Dalison.
L.
Id
urifire
v
d.j..7p1
n
tl
Har-
ridge,'
N.
L.
Oates,
Lt.
Commander
Frewcr,
C.
C.
Mills,
H.
Jackson.
From
Vancouver
Friday)
I).
Graham,
H.
A.
Stewart,
W.
Brown,
M.
Waldrop.
1
'
"
Taxes
were
raised.
Previously
,"wer"flreQ.-'
-
'
.
the
country
had
been
run
by
a
The
bandits
forced
thecash-few
big
families',
remnants
of,
ler
at
gun
point
to
hand
over
the
old
feudal
days,
who
kept
j
$3,200
In
cash
and
$2,100
In
taxes
low.
Family
tr
us
ts,
travelers'
checks.
(Wakfs)
were
broken
up
and;
The
district
Is
a
busy
shop-.
.expressed
their
desire
to-nre-i
sent
"Miss
Prince
Rupert"
with
goint?-away
presents.
j
Loral
rnranM
arc
na
follows:
Cynthia
Norton,
telephone
op-
f
a'"1'.
Terrace.
Mini
jorcian,
government,
01-
lice,
city.
Jean
McGlaslian,
Sweet
Sixteen,
f
ity.
Frances
Hilts,
city.
Lorraine
Youngman,
Column'
j
Cellulose,
cu'y.-
Nina
Youngman,
city.
Maresa
Winrtle,
city.
Diane
Kennery,
city.
IBODYOFBOY
IS
RECOVERED
The
body
of
five-year-old
Stewart
Young
of
Ocean
Falls,
who
disappeared
on
July
when
h?
wandered
off
from
a
baseball
game,
was
recovered
'
yesterday
from
Link
Lake,
near
-
.
.
,
lm
A
coroner
s
inquiry
lwn;
was
held
this
morning
and
burial
set
for
this
after-
noon.
LOCAL
TIDES
I
Sunday.
August
7,
1949
lilgh
13:04
18.5
feel
Low
6:41
2.8
feet
18:47
7.9
feet
ne
IOIIN
(('!')
.
1
r
f'i
,mrr?
phases
01
rv
pamcs
over
ffllian
Mitilidl
inok
"If
Ii'im'
base
to
attack
11
j
h;
(ore
war
tni'-j
U
Columbia
vit-
the
war
fame-
1
attack
had
!n-
Includ'-d
otl-re-
attacks
wiHi
d
dog
fishu
pa-
j
pjratryip'Ts
land
to
wrest
Mil-
air
,th'
enemy
hoc
used
two
glider.
thrnuch
when-
liter
landing
-
In
no
ill
tllf
drsi'iTV
1
!d
"hiavy
ra.ua,-Laid.
but
rnntinii
tiypothriiral
cn-p';iws
harass
1
tami
expressed
tang
must
in-
ae.
fljia
of
the
:an
Air
Force
r.s
use
of
two
gliders
t
..writ
carried
by
judeed
to
liav
1
fairly
heavily,,
poii
Page
61
IIS
mlill
Hrlps
4
Situation
JO
Rainfall
la
;
Weral
over
the
f
Uw
past
week
tn
Saskatchewan
w
done
much
to
!W
situation,
ac-
rtmcnt
of
Aurl-
VMwiian
National
Js
cnnimnicprl
at
In
southern
Mani-'
npectrd
to
be
-"her
ten
days
in
''Southern
Saul-at
-
Wthem
Kaskat-ra.
it
will
"
fek;i
b-forc
the
!tllS
under
way.
'm
Is
reported
n
tnncern
in
.01111
'atchoan.
Hail
from
.,(;!!
T"!l
lfrerver
will
nver-
lie
Pralrle;;.
En..i-
,"!
HPlr3
nr.
lh!
S'Jutrt
end
o
4
0'y
lifb
"
me
vi,
'laturinn
rapid!-
''
lie
Han
son
C
.
tonn
orrow
large
amounts
of
property
freed
for
redistribution.
Political
parties
were
broken
up
apparently
a
step
toward
1
suppressing
any
passible
chal
lenges
to
Zalm's
new
power.
A
six-man
commission
was
appointed
to
frame
a
new
constitution.
Until
it
comes
into
effect
Zalm
is
ruling
by
decree.
Sixty
of
Damascus'
75
newspapers
were
shut
down.
The
others
are
pro-Zalm.
Although
this
was
a
blow
to
a
free
press,
Zaim
had
one
argumenton
his
side:
Many
of
Damascus'
papers
had
Meen
fly-by-night
sheets
Scouts
Here
On
Annual
Adventure
at
Yakima
Party
Rides
North
in
Jeeps
to
Knramp
at
Prince
Itupert
a
Trip
rlimax.
Climax
of
their
"high
adven-turc"
for
the
year
came
at
3:3u
,
yesterday
afternoon
when
three
o
jeeps
and
an
equipment
pickup
he
arrived
In
Prince
Rupert,
carrying
a
Boy
Scout
party
of
to
twenty-two
from
Tleton,
Wash-
melon,
a
small
town
In
Wash-!
Ington
State'
famous
Yakima
Valley.
They
settled
down
last
night
In
the?
Armory
on
Sixth
Avnue
-
Went
--which
will
be
their
headquarters
durin?
their
three-day
stay
over
the
weekend
in
this
city.
The
local
Boy
Scut
rojanlzation.
of
which
F.
E.
Anfield
Is
president.
Is
look-in:;
after
their
entertainment
wlille
herf
and
the
program
Included
a
visit
this,
morning
to
the
salmon
cannery,
reduction
plant
and
celanese
mill
con
struction
at
nearby
Port
Edward,
waterfront
tour
and
boarding
of
li.MC.S.
Ontario
tills
afternoon
and
a
cruise
tomorrow
to
the
native
villaae
of
Metlakntla.
The
caravan,
which
was
met
sixteen
miles
out
yesterday
by
Mr.
Anfield
and
welcomed
to
Prince
Rupert,
will
leave
Monday
morning
In
commencement
of
the
homeward
journey.
Scoutmaster
O.
H.
Weaver
expressed
appreciation
to
the
Dally
News
last
evening
of
the
warm
welcome
and
hospitable
reception
accorded
to
himself
iuid
his
boys
In
Prince
Rupert.
It
was
typical
of
the
treatment
they
had
been
receiving
all
i'ionr;
the
road
through
British
Columbia.
"There
Just
doesn't
seem
to
be
too
much
you
people
in
British
Columbia
can
do
for
us,"
he
said,
"and
believe
me,
we
are
Going
to
remember
this
trip
with
keen
pleasure."
He
com-
nented
favorably
on
the
roads
Hid
enthusiastically
on
scrnery
The
boys
range
In
age
from
lfleen
to
eighteen.
Last
year
neir
nigh
adventure
was
trip
to
Yellowstone
National
Park.
Next
year
their
ob
Jective
is
historic
Valley
Forge
fr
a
national
Jamboree,
tin
first
to
bn
held
in
the
United
Stale3
since
1937.
Mr.
Weaver
said
that
the
prcsrnt
trip
was
costing
each
by
$54.
In
the
usual
Boy
Scout
maimer,
the
boys
finance
the
Ambato
appeared
to
have
been
hardest
hit
community.
It
55
miles
south
of
Quito.
Buildings
topped
In
Ambato's
Industrial
district.
The
series
of
rocking
earthquakes
struck
east
central
Ecuador.
Reports
from
Latacunga.
about
mUes
south
of
Quito,
indi
cated
that
most
of
that
city
was
destroyed.
Many
were
.killed.
Panic
and
disorders
were
report
general.
Bank
Robbery
In
Vancouver
Two
Masked
Men
Hold
I'p
Vf
Busy
Branch
In
Dunbar
Take
Over
5,000
,
".
VVANCOUVER,
Two
men,,
masked
'
with
handkerchiefs
over
their
faces,
this
morning
robbed
the
Dunbar
Street,
branr
of
the
Bank
ol
Nova
stta
of
5,300
and
escaped,
,Both
were
rmed
Dut
no
Enot3
ping
cenrte.
A
car
used
as
the
getaway
vehicle
bore
Washington
State
licence
plates.
"
'.-
Police
say
that
one
of
the'
men
had
a
"faint
American
accent."
BOY
DROWNS
:
AT
ARRANDALE
An
eight-year-old
child
was
drowned
at
Arrandale
on
the
'
Naas
r1vpi:
night
after
fall-
The
body
was
taken
to
Kincolith
today.
'
,
-
.
CURRENCY
AND
TRADE
TALK
OTTAWA
W
Trade
and
currency
problems,
now
a
source
oi
worry
to
most
countries,
are
expected
to
be
among
major
issues
facing
Canada's
new
Parliament
when
lt
meets
for
the
first
time
Sptember
15.
.
Prime
Minister
L.
St.
Laurent
yesterday
announced
the
opening
date
of
the
new
session.
.
However,
the
legislative
pro
gram
will
not
be
disclosed
until
the
speech
from
the
throne
13
read
by
the
Governor
General
at
the
formal
opening.
BASEBALL
SUNDAY
ROOSEVELT
PARK:
2:30
p.m.
COMMERCIALS
vs.
SAVOY
of
in6
from
the
whart
at
tne
fishlnS
existing
on
the
slippery
edge
blackmail
-
camp.
He
was
Nelson
Moore,
son
Zaim
won
followers
among
f
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
MoorCof
the
peasants
and
laborers
with
Klncolith.
The
mishap
oceured
new
laws
protecWng
labor.
He
at
8:30
last
night
and
the
body
ordered
a
drastic
crackdown
on
was
recovered
a
short
time
later,
crime.
jThe
child
was
playing
on
the
Zaim
has
repeatedly
express-
wharf
and
fell
In.
-ed
friendship
for
France,
the
J
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephens
left
United
States
and
Turkey.
He
this
morning
on
the
P.M.L.
15
said
he
will
fight
Communism
to
investigate
the
drownBig..
but
has
nothing
against
Russia.
Witnesses
said
that
they
herd
He
is
suspicious
of
Britain
but!a
shout
and
saw
the
boy
fall
hi.
says
he
favors
good
relations
with
them
If
Britain
"takes
a
i
frank
'attitude
toward
Syria."
There
Is
evidence
that
he
leans
more
toward
France
than
Britain,
however.
BASEBALL
SCORES
TODAY'S
BASEBALL
American
League
New
York
9,
St.
Louis
8.
American
'
St.
Louis
2-5.
New
York
10-10.
Chicago
4,
Washington
1.
Detroit
0,
Boston
9.
Cleveland
3.
Philadelphia
2.
National
Boston
3.
Chicago
8.
Philadelphia
0,
Pittsburgh
1.
New
York
0,
St.
Louis
1.
Brooklyn
6,
Cincinnati
4.
Pacific
Coast
Portland
7-8,
Oakland
4-4-Seattle
6,
Hollywood
3.
San
Diego
4,
Los
Angeles
0.
San
Francisco
10,
Sacramento
9
Western
International
Yakima
6-4,
Victoria
4-.S.
Spokane
.6,
Tacoma
5.
Vancouver
12-9,
Salem
6-5.
Wenatchee
13,
Bremerton
10.
eve.i-
trips
from
their
own
earnings
Starting
from
Yakima
last
.;:;,
ine
uwr
eame
Is
Saturday
the
party
made
camp
by
night
at
Pcntlcton,
Kam-loops,
Williams
Lake,
Prince
George,
Burns
Lake
and
Ter
race.
Several
nights
were
spent
outside,
that
being
the
routine
P-M.
NTARio
and
registration
line;
upper
right,
shipping
the
whole
blood
by
aircraft;
lower
left,
the
actual
taking
of
blood
on
cots
in
the
auditorium;
Norton
Youngs,
organizer
of
the
campaign
here,
gives
his
pint.
(Chandler
Photos)
PRINCE
RUPERT
GIVES
BLOOD-Prince
Rupert
people
gave
more
than
500
pints
of
blood
this
week
when
the
Red
Cross
blood
donor
clinic
had
a
three-day
stand
at
the
Civic
Centre
where
the
west
end
of
the
main
lobby,
the
auditorium
and
the
aspect.
Upper
left,
the
test
teen-aae
room
took
on
a
hospital
IE
Iv
when
local
condtlons
and
wea
there
are
favorable.
he
boys
are
divided
Into
fou
patrols
and
operate
as
such,
OVUC
(CEOTKLE
CARNIVAL,
AUGUST
13-2