1 'VICTORIA, B. C. PHONE A MM STAR WCABS DRUGS LIBRAKY VICTORIA, E C. Dditerv NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest," VOL. XXXVII, No. 262. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS KONG Q)TCID)AP FOR EVACUATION i s V J ; J. Hamilton Persons Lose Their Lives in Toronto Traffic Crash . Would Be Ready to 4 jng Scenes A Screaming Victims " .Trapped, Street Car Hits Bus After jiinental Reunion N'TO (CP) Six Hamilton persons, includ-omen, were killed and some 44 others were rlv today when a street car and a chartered Take Shanghai Folk L on Toronto s western uutsiuris. i ne ueau KpH as Mrs. Thomas Hay, Frank A. Noble, 1. David Armitt, Earl Mackie and Gordon GETTING DOWN Talk of Chiang Kai-Shek Seeking Negotiated Peace His Armies Are Still Resisting HONG KONG (CP) The government of this crown colony is preparing to requisition necessary shipping should evacuation of Britons from Shanghai, 600 miles away, become advisable, it was learned here today. Meantime rumors of peace moves grew in volume bray h:u Jt H : :A TO BUSINESS the injured arc re-tin critical condition. Coach Lines bus was ..mbers of the Ar-itherland Highland-it of Hamilton who, jives, had been at-reunion party in a WASHINGTON D. C. 0i E ft ' SEVEN SHOT TO DEATH CHESTEPv, Pa. Seven persons were shot to. death and four others were wounded today by a ' man who then shot himself to death when trapped -by police. Witnesses said the man leaped from an automobile in the downtown section and fatally wounded Ellery Purnsley, city detective, who was on his way to work. As bystanders rushed to the aid of detectives, the man opened fire, killing six other persons and wounding four more. The man has not yet been identified. MURDER IN SWANK HOTEL NEW YORK Ralph Edward Barrow, 19-year-old Michigan salesman, has confessed, police reported today, to the murder of Colin Cameron MacKellar, 56-year-old Montreal textile executive. MacKellar was beaten today in his Canadian Club suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel early Friday. A book of matches found in the suite was the major clue in tracing the murderer. Robbery may have been the motive of slaying. Campaign promises developed Into legislative plans yesterday tot spot. after the capital had given a mammoth "Welcome Home" re at Nanking but no responsible official would say that Chiang Kai-Shek's government was seeking a negotiated settlement jk street car pass-? coming off nipht ception for President Truman, I Goodyear Tire & Democrats spoke plainly of wrapping the Taft-Hartley Act of the Chinese civil war. i plant. used acetylene tor- MOTHER RECEIVES CROIX DE GUERRE Posthumous Honor for Flying: Officer Thomas Wessei Taylor Who Was Born at Hazelton and writing a new labor law for At Peiping the Chinese gov U desperate efforts the United States, of creating a ernment reported today that it had hacked out gains to the "welfare" department of cabinet rank, of public housing and screaming and Urns trapped in the itaess said the bus less plainly of price controls. north, west and south and had enlarged its North China-Peip-ing-Tientsin island which is sur Vice - President - Elect A 1 b e i. Mrs. Hermina Taylor, now of fa the street car af- Vancouver, and for many years' Barkley suggested, "revision" of the Taft-Hartley Act and pre ipparently swerved rounded by the Communists. a resident of the central inter bedesman, Last night there were reports dicted that Congress would give lor, has just received from the that Chiang Kai-Shek was re linquishing personal command PLANES Belgian government the Croix de Guerre awarded posthumously to her son. Flying Officer of the Chinese nationalist ar mies. Thomas Wessei Taylor, who lost IKING the President power to apply price controls and to extend rent control from March 1 next. Speaking to a great crowd that greeted him, President Truman asked for co-operation of all the people in the great tasks that lay ahead. The Im his life on the night of May 12- 13, 1944, while on a bombing t 9-Three planes, tans aboard, are still mission over enemy-occupied territory. The deceased hero . 11 ' x "1 j t - ' " - ' t'.'" 4 the North Pacific my in spite of one mensity of the task made him wonder if he was worthy, Tru- 1 'itlVf t . exiens ve searcn .;. r.. .1..- ' -"w - - maif Hdmttred. i 111 uik urea. President Truman prepared b ) planes, aided by today for departure tomorrow on a two weeks' trip to Florida wast born at Hazelton January 13, 1915, and spent most,)fThls life at. Prince George where he received his education and grew up. His father, the late Hugh Taylor, was with the provincial public works department and died at Prince George in 1923. Mrs. H. F. Glassey of Prince Rupert is an aunt. The Croix de Guerre 1940 with palm was conferred upon which, however, will not be en t--. .. g-.f---.t-- . ,. . MACKENZIE KING RETURNS Prime Minister Mackenzie King landed today at New York from the liner Queen Elizabeth and is now on his way to Ottawa. Recuperating from an illness which kept him in bed in London for some time and prevented him from attending a conference of British Commonwealth ministers, he was able to be about on the ship. Fog caught the Queen Elizabeth off Ambrose Lightship and delayed landing for 24 hours. The Prime Minister is expected to relinquish office soon after his rfcturn to Ottawa, finally turning over the Prime Ministership to Rt. Hon. L. S. St. Laurent. DULLES CHARGES RED SATELLITES PARIS 01 Senator John Foster Dulles, one of the Republican United States delegates to the United Nations, speaking yesterday before the political committee in debate, charged that Russia's eastern European allies were violating the Greek border. The political committee is considering Greek charges that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and' Rumania are now violating her border. xessinjt the searches, no trace of a long-si States Army plane aboard, which van-Vancouver Island. A war Toflno reported tirely a holiday as he intends to work on legislative plans and possible cabinet changes. KAMLOOPS JAIL BREAK KAMLOOPS Two Saskatchewan youths, awaiting trial on joint charges of breaking and entering, escaped from jail yesterday.. They had, apparently, fashioned a makeshift key from a fork. MONSTER MOTHER, BABE CONWAY, Arkansas A 248-pound mother gave birth to a. Impound son, her. .third child here Friday.' The mother is Mrs. I. Z. Hackler, aged 3(. The attending doctor said that the child at birth was the size of a normal infant five or six month ld" DEMAND LIVING BONUS OTTAWA The Civil Service Federation of Canada, backed bv a number of federal civil service organizations, will meet Acting Prime Minister L S St. Laurent and members of the cabinet next Tuesday to press demands of 102,000 civil servants for cost-of-living bonus. QUEEN RECOVERING LONDON The Queen, who has been confined to bed for several days with a cold, was reported today to be making good progress. STABBING IN PENITENTIARY, KINGSTON, Orft Two guards were stabbed by a convict, one six times and the other once, at Kingston Penitentiary yesterday, it was disclosed today The convict, Patrick McKenzie, had been N what he thought plane crash. About 'Jme residents of what they thought T. H. Sorensen, manager of the B.C. Fishermen's Co-operative Federation, arrived in the city Friday afternoon on the Coqultlam from Vancouver on o business trip. pt to make a land- Mi circling overhead LOCAL TIDES Sunday. November 7, 1948 High '.- 6:05 16.7 feet 17:26 17.3 feet Low 11:40 11.3 feet the fog. PROPOSAL IN MARINE TIE-UP Harry Bridges Calls His v Longshoremen Followers Into Conference SAN FRANCISCO (f -Harry Bridges summoned his C.I.O. Taylor for distinguished serv-1 ices in the war toward the liberation of Belgium, according to communications received from the Belgian embassy in Ottawa and from the chief of staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The brevet and insignia reached the mother recently from the ' Minister of National Defence of Belgium through the embassy at Ottawa. Taylor served with the Thun-derblrd Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was 0. C. Football whony Gives Concert f 1'iRht Instru- Mii Vocal Music consisted of the "Coronation March" from the opera "Le Prophete" by the German com wyed longshoremen, key union in the west coast maritime strike, to lovers nuinberintr a meeting today to consider an F enjoyed a program employee-approved proposal to ! the navigator of a bomber. He DEWEY BLAMES OVER-CONFIDENCE ALBANY m Governor Thomas E. Dewey, conducting a post-mortem on Tuesday's election, said today that general Republican over-confidence was the material factor in poser "Giacomo Meyerbeer. Its rich example was maintained by the Andante movement from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G. Major, commonly called fnphontc and vocal ; night when the was first reported missing and a year later was presumed dead. sentenced at Toronto two years au oy" prt Symphony Or- Still later it' was ascertained .-n,ir.Hinir rharrres and was awaiting uuu n ;! .assisting artists that he had been shot down; charge of wounding a guard in' the penitential J t. 20. m a Vnifp had been smueirled into his cell. end the 66-day shipping tie-up. The new proposal is reported to include only a basis for reopening negotiations and administering new contracts. It does not include contract terms. The settlement proposal would skip the issue of whether the leadership of Bridges is June A A. V 1 .--' t first of the win-18 concerts in the :re auditorium. lcert was nresented his defeat for the presidency. "It looks as if two or three the "Surprise Symphony," be- cause of the rather astonishing double forte chord for full orchestra which breaks through the fabric of pianissimo melody for strings shortly after the opening of the movement. The second group was a vocal one in which Mrs. F. E. Anfleld sang Tostl's "Mattinata" and Ketelby's "In a Monastery Gar Norshin Of t.hp Prinnp million Republicans stayed at home out of over-confidence," he said. Strict Boy Scouts' As- and killed. His grave was found last year at Ghent, Belgium. As a youth at Prince George, ie air hero became a scoutmaster. He left Prince George for Macleod, Alberta, to take employment and it was at the prairie town that he enlisted in 1941. Besides the mother, there are seven brothers and sisters. THE WEATHER The weather remains cloudy and unsettled along the British Columbia coast today and clear ond r.old through the Interior. wmch benefited by receipts. The funds POLE ATTACKS FOSTER DULLES PARIS j Poland made a violent attack upon John Fos Hd to fnvll,, n,. :: TODAY'S STOCKS :: Some increase in cloudiness is den." Accompanying pianist Wu'f Cub work in the ;ed by Novuic Ger- Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. expected in the interior lomor-1 was Peter Lien and during the second solo, A. C. Cameron wove Piece orchestra Buffalo Canadian 20 :'ear'y the possibilities violln obligate. Concluding group in the first wnt of a smphonic ""'wierable merit for. SUPERANNUATION SCHEME NEEDED Premier Johnson Tells ' Weekly Newspapermen He is Working on Plan Consol. Smelters 128.50 Conwest 1-33 Donalda -62 Eldona 03 East Sullivan 3.20 """paratlvely few section of the program consisted of Johann Strauss, the younger's "Emperor Waltz" and selections from Sigmund Rom its, ter Dulles today during debate on the Balkans question in the political committee of the United Nations assembly. The Polish delegate. Julius Katz-Suchy, at the time thumping the table to emphasize the remarks he directed at the Republican foreign affairs expert from the United States, declared "Everybody knows the United States is trying to build an Empire. Mere is no need for Inter-League aMtch iJt Irish League 0, Scottish League 1. T ' English League, First Div. Arsenal 2, Birmingham City 0 Blackpool 1, Newcastle United 3 Aston Vilia 3, Burnley 1 Bolton Wanuerers 5, Chester City 1 Derby County 2, Middlesbrough 0. Huddersfield Town 3, Chelsea 4 Liverpool 3, Portsmouth 1 Manchester (United -2, Ever-ton 0 Sheffield United 3, Preston . North End 2 Sunderland 1, Stoke City 1 (tie) Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Charlton Athletic 0 Second Division Barnsley 1, Brentford 2 Blackburn Rovers 7, Lincoln City 1 Bradford 2, Westham United 3. Cardiff City 3, Chesterfield 4 Fulham 1, Coventry City 0 Grimsby Town 1, Leicester City 0. Luton Town 1, Bury 0. , Nottingham Forest 0, Leeds United 0 (tie) Plymouth Argyle 3, Sheffield Wednesday 2 Queens Park Rangers, 0, West Bromwicri Albion 2 Southampton 3, Tottenham Hotspur 1 Scottish League Div. 'A" (lt Aberdeen 1. Farkirk 4 -Albion Rovers 0, Dundee 6 Clyde 0, Celtic 4 East Fife 4, Third Lanark 0 Hearts 1, Partlck Thistle 3 Morton 1, Motherwell 1 (tie) Queen of the South 3, St. Mir- , ren 2 Rangers 2, Hibernian 4. inmnty was row with little cnange iu cuu-ditlons elsewhere. Queen- Charlottes and North Coast-Cloudy with showers today. Overcast Sunday with rain commencing in northern section in afternoon. Wind west (15 mph) today, light tonight, southerly (20) Sunday. Continuing cold. Lows tonight and highs Sunday-Port Hardy 35 and 45; Massett and Prince Rupert 35 and 45. careful 4.80 berg's lieht oDera. the "Student Giant Yellowknile 'il God's Lake 41 Prince." , need for creator the The opening group of the sec orchestra is an- .24 .11 VANCOUVER ff Premier Byron Johnson told the con- W Inst, ond half of the program was umenlallsts to Hardrock Harricana Heva Hosco '. fanks. made up of two lilting numbers .11', 2 1 vention of the British Colum-IfV'z bia division of Canadian Weekly "ighfs and it was here that the orches Dulles to tell us now unseuisu that is." Program con- four Newspapers' Association last tra began to achieve its best In technical Performance. The 1 "Bill' W P'es and two vo- first was a sparkling overture Vancouver Bralorne 7 20 B. R. Con 03 B. R. X 08 Cariboo Quartz 1.11 Grull Wlhksne 04 '2 Hedley Mascot -31 Pend Oreille 6.10 Pioneer , 2.80 Premier Border v. .0234 Privateer .12 Reeves McDonald 2.95 Reno 07 Salmon Gold -11 Sheep Creek 1.55 Taku River .32 Vananda 49 Congress 03 U Pacific Eastern 07 Spud Valley .09 Silbak Premier 35 Oils A. r. Con 25 Calmont 50 C. & E 5 75 Foothills 4.00 Home 11.50 Toronto Athona .20 Aumaque .18 Beattie 55 "The Silver Wedding" by Rudolph Schlepegrell, and a medley 1)vr T ana the ,7 Rowland mii night that British Columbia vitally needs a compulsory superannuation acheme. He said that 25,000 persons were seeking, old-age pensions in the province. The Premier did not detail the scheme but he said he was studying a program. Frank Harris, publisher of the Vernon News, was elected president of the division. hw. "'""mh, r,ne BOARD GOES TO KELOWNA VANCOUVER W The Board of Transport Commissioners today prepared to move inland to Kelowna where Okanagan Va -ley interests will present their case against the mountain differential. The Board will sit pa: MINISTER ASKS POPPY SUPPORT OTTAWA In an address last evening, Hon. M. F. Gregg, minister of veterans affairs, spoke on Remembrance Day and asked everyone to buy a poppy, not only in support of the guardianship of freedom, bvit for the we second iinir ptBram. Jacknife -05 Va Joliet Quebec -52 Lake Rowan -08 Lapaska 06 Little Long Lac 71 - Lynx 10 Madsen Red Lake ........ 2.35 McKenzie Red Lake .35 Mi.Leod Cockshutt 88 Moneta - 44 , Negus 2.10 Noranda 58.00 Louvlcourt 52 Pickle Crow 2.00 Regcourt 06 San Antonio 3.60 Senator Rouyn 45 Sherrlt Gordon 2.35 Steep Rock 1-60 "Sounds from England' arranged by Otto Langey, a collection of well-known English songs featuring- various instruments. One of the most delightful presentations of the evening was the vocal group by Rowland Miles, tenor, whose initial ap lira,.: rK"'ne nrni......... "nirai group pearance on a Prince Rupert continued co-operation with the survivors of war the disabled, the weakened men who, not concert stace revealed a ricn. HOCKEY SCORES Pacific' Coast Oakland 4, San Diego 3 Vancouver 3, Tacoma 1. Only two games. there Monday a" missions of commerce there which claims that, in the sn ip-ment of fruit, it is hit harder business in the than any other interior of British Columbia. withstanding this, managed to iimriiie.e the scarlet emblems well-trained voice approaching professional calibre. Mr. Miles sang "Ah, Moon of My Delight" iCoctlauMi or. Pagt Six that mean so much.