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LI3"ARY
VICTORIA.
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VICTORIA,
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AND
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DRUGS
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At
All
Hours
Service
Daily
Delivery
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PHONE
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Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
STAR
V
CABS
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
125.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
MAY
28,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
North
.cm
Flood
itustioin
ecinnis
3
.uts
Turned
Out
In
,L
AL..
CI
l:
Non-Confidence
Moves
Rejected
OTTAWA,
OS
The
government
was
sustained
In
voting
on
two
want-of-confidence
motions
in
Parliament
yesterday.
A
Progressive-Conservative
non-confidence
motion
was
voted
down
72
to
54
and
a
C.C.F.
motion
122
to
30.
Great
Britain
Moves
'Guests1
Last
of
War
Prisoners
Being
Returned
Home
by
Alvin
Stenikopf
LONDON,
(AP)
Great
Bri
leaaer
ui
navu..
""J
"u"u
Skeena
River
Waters
Reported
Receding
Peak
of
Flood
May
Now
Have
Been
Reached
Evacuations
and
Rescue
With
all
communications
from.
Prince
Rupert
to
Terrace
and
interior
points
beyond
completely
out
since
2
o'clock
yesterday
afternoon,
it
was
still
difficult
to
obtain
an
estimate
today
of
damage
done
and
hardships
suffered
as
a
result
of
the
ravaging
flood
waters
of
the
Skeena
and
Bulkley
Rivers
since
they
olatiomst,
lo
rorm
New
Government
s
V1
w
i
'
,
i
'fd
oHANNESBURG,
(CP)
Reversing
the
trend
tain
is
seeing
the
last
of
a
lot
of
Uv
returns,
later
results
in
the
Union
of
South
visitors.
Two
British
steamers,
I
a
"general
election
yesterday
gave
the
National-fill
u
uts
as
Hfainsh
fifi
for
Field
Marshal
shuttling
back
and
forth
across
the
North
Sea',
are
taking
home
the
rearguard
of
517,000
German
New
Provincial
Office
Building
VICTORIA
Hon.
E.
1
"
-
-
,in
T
c
4
IT.V.I
r
tt
nan
-Jan
omuis
umicu
party,
ji-.
rrancuis
C.
Car-
he
leader
of
the
Nationalists,
of
definite
separ-
war
prisoners.
Both
Germans
and
Britons,
on
son
is
to
recommend
to
the
provincial
government
that
a
per
tadencies,
was
called
upon
went
on
the
rampage
at
the
first
the
whole,
are
content
that
this
,
new
government
after
last
chapter
of
war's
aftermath
I:
Smuts
had
resigned.
Hu
manent
office
building
be
erected
at
Government
and
Belleville
Streets
at
an
estimated
Two
Anthracite
Miners
Are
Dead
SCRANTON,
Pa..
Rescue
pend
lor
Parliamentary
is
drawing
to
a
close,
but
many
departures
have
been
heart-
of
the
wek,
carrying
out
both
railway
and
highway
lines.
By
British
Columbia
police
radio
it,
was
learned
that
the
Bulkley
River
was
not
rising
further
at
Smithers
while
Hazelton
report
on
nine
Airmanoers.
Fraser
Valley
Flood
-Srticken
cost
of
$1,500,000.
This
will
relieve
overcrowding
in
the
parliament
buildings
and
other
offices
in
Victoria.
Edition
to
losing
nis
maj-in
Parliament,
Premier
I
iiso
lost
his
own
seat.
workers
struggled
today
to
reach
the
bodies
of
two
anthracite
coal
miners,
one
of
whom
had
apparently
died
24
hours
after
being
trapped
200
feet
underground
by
a
rock
fill.
ed
a
recession
there.
The
nearest
point
of
communication
on
i)S
SEES
wrenching.
Some
of
the
prisoners
have
been
here
more
than
three
years.
One
of
the
officers
who
will
stay
here
a
while
is
Field
Marshal
Gerd
Von
Kundstedt,
73
and
ill.
Another
is
Field
Marshal
Walther
Von
Brauchitsch,
once
chief
of
staff
of
the
German
army.
There
have
been
reports
that
the
War
Crimes
IE
HOI
R
laON
Commenting
on
the
Hundreds
of
Acres
Desolate
Millions
of
Damage
Railway
Ditficuiticv
L
'
'.-
'
'
1
TJl
"
iA
vrr'
lit
the
railway
line,
Kwinitsa
reported
this
morning
that
the
rise
of
the
water
there
had
slowed
up
although
the
trend
was
still
up
)f
ihe
South
African
elec-
FRENCH
CRUISER
IS
AT
MONTREAL
MONTREAL
The
French
cruiser
Jeanne
d'Arc
i
making
r.ie
London
Standard
said
tot
it
was
"a
grave
hour
Armistice
VANCOUVER
Flood
damage
in
the
rich
farm
lands
of
the
lower
Fraser
was
estimated
at
ward.
The
recession
further
up
the
river
might
not
yet
have
been
felt
at
Kwinitsa.
Empire
"
U
was
vain
to
r,at
the
result
of
the
elec-
an
11-day
visit
to
Canada
and
has
been
here
since
Monday.
f,ould
not
have
an
effect
Commission
has
not
f
niished
I
millions
of
dollars
today
as
des-wilh
them.
olation
spread
overtyiundreds
of
Repatriation
has
dragged
out
square
miles
with
the
waters
With
the
exception
of
a
short
Demanded
-elations
between
visit
to
the
island
of
St.
Pierre,
uth
Africa.
Repercussions
this
will
be
the
only
North
Amer
but
British
officials
insist
the
'
still
rising.
country
has
gained
no
financial
j
Naval
craft
have
been
dis-
ican
call.
The
cruiser
has
a
:d
to
the
proposed
imperial
conference
are
First
emergency
train
from
Prince
Rupert
to
Kwinitsa
left
this
morning
with
passengers,
mail
and
supplies
for
the
40
miles
intervening
including
the
Skeena
River
canneries.
It
is
due
back
this
afternoon.
According
to
word
received
by
Brigadier
J.
T.
Gillingham,
Denem
irom
tnese
nunareas
01
patched
from
Esquimau
to
GERMAN'S
AGAINST
COMMUNISM
Franz
Neumann,
leader
01
the
anti-Communist
Berlin
Social
Democratic
party
in
Germany,
is
shown
addressing
citizens
of
Berlin
during
a
Reichstag
aemonstration.
During
his
speech,
Neumann
charged
that
Communists
were
attempting
to
mold
Germany
into
a
new
totalitarian
state.
The
poster
on
the
right
reads
"Freedom
and
Bread."
crew
of
722
including
149
cadets.
Insist-
on
Settlement
in
Palestine
Jews
Surrender
in
Jerusalem
thousands
of
able-bodied
men
!
reseen.
During
the
war
the
Jeanne
d'Arc
assist
in
evacuation
of
stranded
people.
Already
300
have
been
They
were
useful,
perhaps
even
was
on
convoy
duty
in
the
vital,
in
the
gathering
of
Bri
brought
in
from
stricken
Agassiz
to
Vancouver.
tain's
first
two
'
post-war
harvests.
,
i,E.
Boosts
divisional
commander
of
the
Salvation
Army,
the
native
village
of
Glen
Vowell,
seven
miles
up
the
Skeena
River
from
Haz
LAKE
SUCCESS
W
Great
Britain
yesterday
demanded
a
four
weeks'
armistice
in
Palestine
and
a
peace
settlement
of
the
conflict
in
the
Holy
Land.
Sir
Alexander
Cadogan
told
the
Security
Council
that.
If
this
at
MacMillan
Building
Pulp
The
main
line
of
the
Canadian
Pacific
Railway
was
washed
out
65
miles
east
of
Vancouver
today
i
and
traffic
was
being
re-routed
But
keeping
them
has
cost
the
government
$1,200,000
a
year.
Now
that
they
have
almost
all
gone
the
War
Office
is
esti-
Husband
Entitled
to
Share
Wife
Estate
TORONTO
A
husband
is
entitled
to
a
portion
of
his
deceased
light
Rate
ird
I
p
Twenty-one
Per
i
nvpr
l.hp
Panarlian
Nnt.innul
mating
some
other
benefits.
It
'n
stm
inUct
at
elton,
had
been
evacuated
of
its
native
population.
The
message
suggested,
however,
that
the
danger
-might
soon
be
passed.
-
Mill
on
Vancouver
Island
tempt
at
a
peace
settlement
failed.
Great
Britain
was
ready
to
go
i
in
Line
with
was
suggesiea
mat
in
ramer
a.
r,f
Lial
Increase"
'
'
Mark
Creek
at
Kimberley
is
At
Exstew
two
Canadian
Na-
wife's
estate
even
if
her
will
does
not
name
"him
as
'a
beneficiary,
according
to
a
Judgment
this
week,
which
established
a
precedent
in
Ontario.
now
under
control
and
the
flood
J
tional
Railways
section
men
fTORIA,
(CP)
The
Twelve
Million
Dollar
Plant
Going
In
Eight
Miles
From
Nanaimo
situation
there
is
subsiding.
I
".nail
v
owned
Pacific
were
amoasaaors.
r
rom
mem
Britons
learned
something
about
German
character.
Many
thousands
of
prisoners
admitted
they
were
reported
marooned
hi
the
along
with
other
nations
m
'
strong
enforcement
measures.
Meantime
it
was
reported
to-Iday
from
Palestine
that
bcleag-'uered
Jews,
out
of
ammunition,
had
finally
surrendered
to
the
Arabs.
Canadian
Pacific
track
near
Eastern
Railway
will
its
freight
rates
21
per
Cranbrook
has
been
washed
otjt
for
a
long
distance.
immediately,
John
Hart,
BASEBALL
SCORES
Pacific
Coast
League
Hollywood
11,
Oakland
7
(10
of
the
railway,
an-"i
titnt
yesterday.
The
decl-
innings).
I
is
in
line
with
an
in-
VANCOUVER,
(CP)
ii.
R.
MacMillan
Export
Co.
Thursday
night
announcd
that
work
.would
begin
shortly
on
a
$12,000,000
sulphate
pulp
mill
on
Vancouver
Island.
It
will
"be
located
on
Northumberland
Strait,
eight
miles
southeast
of
Nanaiijio.
Orders
for
$3,000,000
worth
of
machinery
and
equipment
have
already
been
placed.
The
plant
will
mean
employment
for
more
than
two
hundred
persons
in
the
Nanaimo
area.
Truman
May
'
iarded
national
Mil
Premier
Johnson
,
Going
to
Ottawa
ky
the
Board
of
Trans-Commissioners
recently.
section
house
at
Exstew.
Arrangements
were
being
made
from
Terrace
to
rescue
them
by
means
of
a
boat.
NAVAL
AND
AIR
CRAFT
ARE
READV
Canadian-
Pacific
Air
Lines
is
preparing
to
operate
emergency
air
service
between
here
and
Smithers
and
possibly
other
air-accessible
Interior
points
with
one
of
the
Canso
amphibians
stationed
here
from
the
Vancouver-Prince
Rupert
service.
To
organize
the
service
is
said
to
be
had
picked
up
a
more
favorable
impression
of
Britain.
Some
Germans
wili
stay
voluntarily,
but
it
was
not
easy
for
them
to
get
permission
to
remain.
By
mid-May
20,332
p;is-oners
had
persuaded
the
British
authorities
to
release
them
here
They
are
becoming
foreign
civilians,
able
to
live
and
work
here
under
regulations
applying
to
all
foreigners.
Most
fo
those
allowed
to
remain
are
working
on
farms.
They
have
not
been
promised
British
citizenship,
but
most
of
Be
Elected
San
Diego
2,
Sacramento
1
(10
Innings).
Los
Angeles
7,
San
Francisco
0.
Portland-Seattle,
postponed,
rain.
LEGION
BARS
CONSCRIPTS
HE
WEATHER
VICTORIA
Premier
Byron
Johnson
is
leaving
Sunday
for
Ottawa
for
another
conference
with
the
federal
gdvernment
on
railway
freight
rates.
He
will
also
ask
the
federal
government
Chief
Executive
Not
Being
Written
Off
by
Any
Means
By
Clyde
Blackburn
f
Rupert
Overcast
with
twites,
wind
northwest.
iittle
change
in
tempera-1
to
assume
a
larger
share
of
nec
Canadian
Press
Staff
Writer
WASHINGTON,
B
The
essary
new
hospital
construction
SASKATOON
Stormy
debate
would-be
king
makers
may
have
them
believe
they
will
get
It
in
the
purpose
of
a
visit
to
the
city
of
J.
A.
Barber,
superintendent
of
sales,
C.P.A.,
ar.d
Jack
Falres,
chief
pilot
for
British
Columbia,
who
arrived
from
Vancouver
yesterday
afternoon.
ft
Stronghold
OJ
Prohibition,
11
To
lie
Tested
Next
Month
a
few
years.
A
comparative
few
have
married
British
girls.
Marriage
was
prohibited
during
and
after
the
war,
but
then
regulations
were
relaxed.
The
typical
German
prisonei
Two
diesel-motored
craft
of
written
him
off
but
Harry
Truman,
President
of
the
United
States
and
the
equal
of
any
head
of
a
country
.today,
may
surprise
the
doubters
and
return
for
an
elected
term
in
the
White
House.
The
former
haberdasher,
who
never
went
to
college
and
failed
to
finish
his
high
school
educa
marked
consideration
in
the
closing
stages
of
the
Dominion
Command
twelfth
national
convention
of
the
Canadian
Legion
yesterday
of
a
resolution
which
would
have
admitted
conscripted
men
in
the
last
war
to
Legion
membership.
There
were
boos
and
cheers.
Although
the
retiring
president,
Major-General
C.
B.
Price,
took
the
view
that
it
was
"unworthy"
to
exclude
the
con
H.M.C.S.
Chatham
here
were
today
ordered
to
stand
by
for
pos
f
HA
UL(
)TT
ETC)
WN
,
(CP)
Prince
Edward
worked
a
48-hour
week
on
a
i.
tanaua's
last
stronghold
of
prohibition,
will
open
its
2:55
nollinir
booths
June
28
and
put
the
farm,
lived
In
a
camp
and
earned
$3
a
week,
of
which
he
saved
1(n
of
liimor
to
some
50.000
voters.
The
plebis-
sible
use
in
relief
and
evacuation
measures
from
the
flood
waters
of
the
Skeena
River.
This
was
in
line
with
similar
action
taken
from
Esquimalt
whence
small
naval
craft
have
been
dispatched
to
the
hard-hit
lower
Fraser
Valley.
Nlot
will
contain
two
questions:
"For
Now
trance
Act"
and
"For
Old
Prohibition
Act."
$1.20.
Incentives
were
offered
for
guod
work,
so
that
exceptional
prisoners
were
paid
more
scripts,
the
convention
voted
2G0
to
198
against
having
them.
tion,
went
through
the
ranks
to
become
a
county
court
judge,
a
United
States
senator,
the
vice-president
of
this
country
and,
when
President
Roosevelt
died
in
1945,
he
succeeded
to
the
presidency.
I
"a
In
the
latter
question!
m
issue.
Employers
paid
the
War
Office
the
prevailing
wages
of
British
workers.
h
Edward
Island
had
a
Niibition
act
until
1945.
New
Officers
of
Canadian
Legion
SASKATOON,
r
With
Lt.
money
on
drink,
i
Justice
of
the
peace
may
revoke
the
liquor
permit
of
that
person.
Anyone
who
supplies
liquor
to
a
person
whose
permit
has
beea
Harry
Truman
would
be
the
JESSE
JAMES
1
'inie
an
amendment
was
hir.h
gave
doctors
the
Baxter
of
Winm-
"prescribe"
liquor
for
revuKeu,
ui
w
.
.
,,
f
ho
nrpsiripnrv
'
advance
With
alto
a
Jail
sentence,
without
the
,
nd
of
Cartage
Truck
Cut
Off
at
Salvus
A
truck,
owned
by
Lindsay
Cartage
Co.,
which
left
the
city
Monday
night
with
supplies
for
the
Terrace
district,
is
strandeo
option
of
a
fine.
I
the
Canadian
Legion,
Group
p"".
at
a
cost
of
$1,
an
mld
make
one
The
government,
wltn
a
Captain
A.
Watts
of
Vancouver
Is
It
Time
To
Help?
We
do
not
yet
know
how
extensive
and
severe
may
be
the
sufferings
of
the
communities
of
the
interior
which
Prince.
Rupert
likes
to
claim
as
being
within
her
orbit.
Possibly,
and
we
hope
so,
the
flood
ravages
may
not
be
so
serious
as
it
is
easy
for
us
to
fear
they
might
be.
It
should
not
be
very
long
now
before
we
know.
Meantime
,
there
is
reason
to
assume
that
considerable
hardship
has
been
occasioned
and
a
good
deal
of
relief
may
be
required
relief
that
may
have
to
be
provided
quickly
on
an
organized
basis.
So,
possibly,
it
would
be
well
if
Prince
Rupert,
blessed
in
the
happy
certainty
that
there
is
a
minimum
danger
of
being
herself
deluged
or
cut
off,
started
thinking
about
organizing
for
relief
for
the
city's
less
fortunate
neighbors.
When
it
comes
to
doing
business
with
our
friends
interior
wards,
we
are
only
too
anxious
to
be
helpful.
Now,
if
and
when
they
they
are
in
need,
might
be
a
good
time
for
us
to
show
that
our
solicitation
is
more
than
pocket-book
deep.
There
are,
doubtless,
authorities
and
interests
in
Prince
Rupert
who
might
appropriately
enough
take
up
the
challenge
and
assume
leadership
in
organizing
and
co-ordinating
the
machinery
of
relief
against
possible
need.
Even
if
it
should
happily
turn
out
that
nothing
very
much
needed
be
done,
the
gesture
would
be
a
mighty
fine
one.
To
start
with
the
Daily
News
promises
that
it
will
be
readv
and
willing
to
place
all
its
facilities
at
full
disposal
of
any
campaign
to
aid
sufferers
in
what
appears
may
be
developing
into
a
disaster
situation.
first
to
admit
as
he
has
admit-1
ted
on
a
number
of
occasions
that
he
was
not
qualified
to
head
the
most
powerful
and
important
nation
emerging
from
the
Second
World
War.
But
the
job
fell
on
his
shoulders
and
he
said
at
the
time
it
was
as
if
the
sun-
and
moon
and
all
the
planets
hit
him
and
he
ha.s
done
it
as
honestly
and
ably
as
he
could.
.
In
view
of
all
the
circum
fchase
a
week,
wranmcnt
will
defin-
out
or
effect
after
the
by
high
water
at
Salvus,
while
the
driver,
William
Gair,
is
at
becomes
first
vice-president.
Evans
of
Ontario
is
the
new
second
vice-president
and
Ang-lin,
New
Brunswick,
third
vice-president.
A.
E.
Moore
remains
since
It
is
not
provided
Terrace.
Several
other
cars
also
STILL
ALIVE
LAWTON,
Oklaiicma
Jesse
James
still
lives.
The
claim
Is
made
by
a
local
new;paper
and
It
is
the
most
fantastic
story
in
the
history
of
the
state.
Its
accuracy
has
been
checked
and
double-checked.
The
man
who
was
shot
and
killed.
In
the
eighties,
was
Charles
Bigelow,
and
not
Jesse
James.
He
is
here
in
Lawton.
He
has
always,
been
known
as
Dalton,
since
the
old
Indian
Territory
days.
He
Is
reputed
to
be
about
a
century
old.
500,000
yearly
liquor
revenue
at
stake
is
generally
conceded
to
be
tacitly
supporting
the
Temperance
Act.
It
also
wants
to
eliminate
"the
ridiculous
situation
of
a
doctor
diajnos-ing
and
prescribing
for
a
patient
six
months
In
advance."
Pnin.iral
observers
are
reluc
are
stranded
at
Terrace.
l"c
ballot.
nw
temperance
act
was
"Panel
passed
by
the
1943
as
Dominion
chairman
and
Lt.
Col.
L.
Lalonde
as
vice-chair-1
man.
ture
session,
but
it
cannot
stances
it
may
be
said
safely
and
with
truth
that
Truman
has
e
effecti-
ve
unless
the
maj-
t
the
Pouulace
siinivirr.s
it..
done
a
good
job.
Certainly
he
give
the
ch
inking
pop
has
done
a
far
better
job
than
Fish
Sales
American
Uenc,
60,000,
20.50,
19
and
10,
Benes
Brother
Says
President
Is
111
PRAGUE,
KP
Jan
Bencs,
elder
brother
of
President
Edouard
Bencs,
told
friends
last
night
that
the
President
Is
a
very
111
man
and
that
he
t
Edouard)
paid
him
his
last
farewells
prior
to
leaving
for
the
United
States.
r
the
same
amount
of
al
tant
to
forecast
the
outcome
of
the
referendum.
They
give
a
slight
edge
to
temperance
over
prohibition
despite
the
fact
that
every
plebiscite
held
previously
in
Uie
Island
resulted
In
a
dry
ly
V,
Y.i.
age
as
the
1945
Storage.
Pnt
tiklone
boUte
of
)r
sPU'ils
or
nnt.
r,f
is
in
bed
with
an
injured
hip
and
assumes
no
one
knows
his
identity,
IT,
as
believed,
he
is
really
the
bandit.
Whatever
his
age.
he
Is
in
reasonably
good
health.
The
story
has
made
a
even
his
closest,
admirers
expected.
FEARLESS
POLITICAL
FORESIGHT
The
cnier
characteristic
of
President
Truman
is
fearless
political
foresight.
His.
enemies
(Continued
on
Page
Six)
llk-but
it
would
have
I'
wnalties
ror
violations.
ItJdnihUl.i.
victory.
The
only
organized
campaigning
u
hPine
done
by
prohibltlon-
I
Hum,
lue
government
Empress,
29,000,
20.50,
19
and
10,
Storage.
Canadian
Kamchatka,
22,000,
20,
19
and
19.50,
Whiz.
Oldfield,
26,000.
Co-op.
Five
Princes,
14,000,
Co-op.
Melville,
26,000,
Co-op.
fecently
to
explain
the
lsts,
though
that
is
on
a
small
MacARTHUR
IS
NOT
RETURNING
The
new
Tern-1
scale.
'Cp
a
,
,
t..
'
J
Acl-
that
:
Is
directed
nt
the'
The
new
act
Is
so
worded
,'
wtme
of
intemperance
)t
the
vote
is
for
prohibition,
the
C.
N.
R.
A.
DANCE
TONIGHT
-y
mat
an
lntemperr
cabinet
V
will
proclaim
m
may
not
obtain
liq-'
first
half
of
the
act,
which
does
,
not
allow
for
general
sale.
ln
Mature,
the
namnhint.
Tf
the
vote
is
wet,
the
entire
TOKYO,
General
Douglas
MacArthur
today
denied
that
he
had
accepted
an
invitation
to
return
to
the
United
States.
That
interpretation
had
been
placed
upon
his
announcement
that
he
was
leaving
his
release
to
officials
ln
Washington.
LOCAL
TIDES
'
(Standard
Time)
Saturday,
May
29,
1948
High
5:13
17.0
feet
18:49
16.4
feet
Low
12:01
6.1
feet
Cpl.
Harry
Wilson
and
Ssmn.
Al
Creamore
of
the
local
detachment,
Royal
Canadian
Corps
of
Signals,
sailed
last
night
on
the
Prince
Rupert
for.
a
trip
to
Vancouver
on
two
weeks'
leave.
Oddfellows'
Hall
9:30-1:30
fn;hat
if
the
-wife
or
act
will
come
Into
effect.
A
pro-&ny
person
complains,
vincial
liquor
commission
wiu
Admission
50f
-1251
person
is
wasting
also
be
created.