I IiOV!NCIAL DISPATCHED PROVISCIAL LISSAHT, 113 Anrip rnriAf Ik VICTORIA, B. C. -Daily-Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'8 NEWSPAPER CABS Published or Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port - "Princ Rupert, thKy to th Great Northwest" PH0IIE81 VOL. XXXIX, NO. 139. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS trikc 'Iri iritish c o uina mm Averted eena River Flood Danger Appears Easier iter DropDinq; Road Geoff Hill Is Jaycees Prexie Settlement Reached on Eve of Deadline Increase Of l2V2c Per Hour Agreed Upon Union Shop Clause Dropped VANCOUVER (CP) The strike threat was lifted today from coastal timber stands, backbone of the British Columbia economy, when representatives of 32,000 coastal loggers agreed to contract proposals. The settlement was announced at 12:30 midnight. Loggers and mill workers were to have walked out ised Last Evening Also to Attend Natioml Convention in Vancouver Geoff Hill, serretary of the Canadians Have More In Bank Than Ever Work And Thrift, Investment And Enterprise Hasis Of Prosperity Menace Of Communism MONTREAL More Canadians have more money in the chartered banks than ever before, and the average account is higher, it was stated today by J. U. Boyer, president of The Canadian Bankers' Association. ; ; Speaking at the annual meeting of the Associa- . tlon, Mr. Boyer detailed the A May Have Been Reached, Late Reports Today Indicate ,e foot of water covers many portions of the ,y between Prince Rupert and Hazelton and tye has been loosened by rising waters, it was 4 by the Fublic Works department this morn- Junior Chamber of Commerce. was last night elected President, at the beginning of the day succeeding Harold Hampton. The election of officers, following a dinner and annual general meet jst night at 7 o'clock the highway between e and Tyee was closed. H. A. Philpott and C.V. shift. The International Woodworkers of America won wage increases of I2V2 cents an hour, which operators estimate will cost $7,000,000 a year. The union had asked for a union shop. Instead it got a maintenance of membership clause which means all members of the union ing In the Civic Centre last night, marked the organization's final meeting of the season until Forest Fire AtKildala A slash fire covering 300 acres at Kildaia Arm in the Kltimst area, Is being fought by bcut V. mk i growth of banking In recent September. opted to get through X but the floating it; miles east of Kwln-a miles east of Prince Sopped their progress, arned to the city, jout occurred on the it I'sk last night and reports, citizens and Archie Wudel was elected first years, particularly the growth of deposits and loans, and coupled with It a suggestion to Canadians to invest In the RUSSIAN ATOM BOMBS NEW YORK Reports that Russia may have six atom bombs on hand by next fall and soo'4 may be producing them at the rate of 25 yearly were quoted by a military expert, Commander William Greenhalgh. PRINCETON EVACUATING PRINCETON A number of families were evacuated from thi main danger spot in the Similkamecn flood area today as water continued to rise. Water Is now running through two or three homes. MISSION DANGER LEVEL MISSION At Missies today the Fraser River passed the danger level of 20 feet. 1 The level was 20.03 feet. New dikes are now being tested. CLYNE NEW JUDGE OTTAWA The Minister of Justice introduced a measure today which would provide for an additional judge on the Supreme Court bench in British Columbia. John V. Clyne, at present chairman of the Domirvon Maritime Commission believed slated for the new judgeship. , (Mr. Clyne once practised In Prince Rupert with Williams, Manson & Gonzales). RECORD CROWD ' TORONTO An all time rec vice-president; Eric Spcers, sec As Skeena Floods J. Harry Black, local motorist and theatre manager, arriving Wednesday afternoon from the Interior, reported ten Inches of water over the Skeena River highway at Salvus, fifty-six miles east of Prince Rupert. must retain membership during ond vice-president; Dan William profitable development of the 30 persons today after breaking , the contract's duration. son, secretary; and E. V. Ardagh, abundant resources and rich op treasurer. , Directors are Sid Gonick, Robert Mclnnes. Hugh uru employees were at- portunities of Canada, and thus contribute to the national en- Laget U filled In. Some, MacKenzie, Neely Moore, David richment In the way of jobs and out at the loggin? camp of Alex Hing yesterday afternoon. Ranger W. A. Willan flew to the scene In a Q.CA. aircraft piloted by Capt. N. Germyn last night. According to reports, the fire -'ins all, the people of derailment Near Telkwa Derailment Line is Cleared Tonight's Train Again Late An eleven-car freight train was derailed yesterday afternoon about three miles east of Telkwa. No one was Injured. The wreck occurred when the train struck a "sun kink," caused by expansion of the rails In exceptionally hot weather, according to C. A. Berner, divisional moving to higher Hay, S .O. Furk, E. C. Williams, Jerry Lcmire and H. J. Jefferies. At Victoria Hon. J. H. Cates, Minister of Labor, expressed ratification at the settlement of the strike and paid tribute to the Labor Relations Board for its work in the matter. Such a strike would have been a terrific blow to the economy of the province and would have affected every citizen of British Columbia. Softball Game District Forester Mark Gor-mely announced yesterday afternoon his department was rushing tents and other equipment into Usk wnere residents are evacuating their homes for higher ground. condition can change .pidly. The water has .pUly but there was a -. to steady down today. it flooding so far ap-,! have been from the production. "By stimulating among Canadian? generally a lively consciousness of the opportunities for their own enrichment In which ,heir own country abounds and of the job-creating importance of venture and investment thinking men," said Mr. Boyer, "can make a really effective contribution toward the permancy of employ Is One-Sided Is under control and the forestry department here Is waiting for further word from the ranger. Small outbreaks of fires are reported in the Anahim L&ke area, in the Bella Coola valley, District Forester Mark Gormely reported this morning, but the blazes are small. Rivet although the Shut-out Last Unprecedented Evening na has also been rls- The line was reported clear North Star moved out of the Softball basement last night and. t reported Just before ay that there had been ment and prosperity so much to be desired.' this morning and normal trat- when they decided to move, they I fic passing over lt rise there during the THE WEATHLR Synopsis Considerable cloudiness persisted over southern British Columbia although the cloud was beginning to thin out over the southern coast and; lower main-J.nd riu";r! the rnornipc;. Rom? shower activity is expected over the southern mountains today but thunder showers will be re- $20 Billion Skeena water was still rising yesterday afternoon, railway offices reported, and was approaching the track at Pacific. 114 miles east of Prince Rupert. loycees Honor Alf Worthintorx . , . , l; Air Worthington, of the staff of the Daily News, was lauded uv members of the Junior uiu ii, in uu uncciumn terms, as ( . FoUr gaS tank cars Plled thev eave Runert Plumbincr tt ord crowd of 21,809 for sports up Li the situation was xtrol. There had been iteration to moving from a and one of thcm fel1 about thewot shf.tllrln,, ,v,r in Canada saw the English in- J Esv . ternationals clefcal Minchesi i I Vf 4lVS j In a review of banking hlgh-j 1 lights," Mr. Boyer said that at ;Mtr-h 31, 1950, the. public had $ .,971; million In nearly 8,000,000 eposit accounts. This was an crfWn'i'ntni'ai .nrtihari hi.iw th bridga-into a" creek. ' Motorists of low-lying Braun's 1 - - 1, ----- was an unbelievable 31 score r it apiieared today this raced to the scene to fill up with free gas. ter United 4-2 last rght in an exhibition game. The English team led 2-1 at half time. ! increase of $426 million In a year :H be necessary. There MOSCOW The Soviet Union has set aside for defence this year the equivalent of a half a dozen families Chamber of Commerce at the Meanwhile the train due here 1 ur cenL Savings were up t.nniirht. f-nm t.ho pnst. i is h,-.r. 308 million and current ac- ' stricted to a few isolated storms. By tomorrow there will be siderably less cloud in. these reg ot sanitation's annual meeting $19,850,000,000. The figur,- Is o 0. The luckless Plumbers were ible to get only three hits In th "hole earn, one ench In the ourth. eighth and ninth inninis phM Htchf-d pret ball and hari 15 ftrlke-outs to his credit. He was relieved in the final inntn late due to a hold-up at a rock sUde in the Mount Robson area i last night. Retiring President Harold Hampton spoke on behalf of the members In wishing Alf "the best for the future." He congratulated him on his splen two days ago. The delayed train counts increased 365,000 between September 30, 1948 and September' 30, 1949 and the average deposit was $373 -coin-pared Co $823 in 1915. In savings I'.une, the average account moved up from $532 ln 1945 to based on the value of the iiible. i The finance minister announced the sum 18.5 per cent of the 1 1950 budget to the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) at a joint I ! meeting of Its two houses. Prime j Minister Stali.i and many min should arrive at 12:1 noon. to- morrow . bv Bennv WHrtle who mae to i did work done in Jaycee projects ions. The northern regions will continue sunny and warm.-'- i Forecas North Coast Region Fog and low cloud over Northern Vancouver Island both mornings; otherwise clear. A little warmer. Light winds. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow, at Port Hardy, 48 and 65: Sandspit, 50 and 6K; " Prince Rupert, 45 and 67. . I $137 in 1949. (specially the initiation of "Future Citizen's Day" in this city w is muddy and grey and a lot of debris wcing to move down. A me jammed In the d was loosened by a ! dynamite. Stevenson, president of Cross at Terrace, and i! Constable Ted Drue - yesterday In a forest 'peeder and reported the pped seven Inches there, ''pie had moved furnl- of their houses as a '0 against floods. Plumbers look sick with his The water situation In the floater ball which they Just rivers is good, Mr. Burner says, ' -ouldnt hit. There was a six inch rise at In snlt nf the lopsided sots j Kwinitsa, but there was no In-'he spectators seemed to enl-' dication of trouble in stor,?, h-3 Alf replied that when he arrives In eastern Canada he will "talk ne Rame. nnd it was a enrnedv , Ra(j to Jaycee clubs and attempt to stage a s.miiar event." Mr. and Mrs. Worthington leave for Vancouver aboard the Prince Rupert tonight. of errors from start to flnbh tht RECORD OF DEPOSITS Total deposits ln the chartered banks reached a record at March 31 $8,307 million, a gain of 5'2 per cent in a year. Banc assets, the counterpart to deposits, also set a record, $8,833 million, an Increase of $112 mil-.ion or nearly live pjr cent over ..larch 31, 1949. Current loans in H least provided entertainment. ers of the foreign diplomatic, corns were present. The minister said the Russian fifrure represents a decline in military expenditures from the pre-war year of 1940. He also said that wide price reductions were responsible for the drop in expected total revenues. H charged Britain and the United ft.ates with nacression and said the United States expenditure for war thl vea.r Is .3?..fK)0.000.rjT) or 70 per cent of the total budget. LOCAL TIDES Friday, June 16. 1950 -y was the warmest "hf VPQr n T-........ .i.u Mr; and Mrs. J. E. Ormheim are sailing tonb.ht on the Prince Rupert for their home in Van ol jruniTC Willi IOmeter reaching 87 High 1:17 14:27 20.5 feet 17.7 feet Canada, an index of business couver. Mr. Ormheim spent the Canada 33d; U,S. Peace Leaders . REGINA The responsibility of Canada Pnd the United States in their joint roles as leaders in the drive for world peace was outlined Tuesday by Premier T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan. 2.8 feet activity, stood at $2,218 million at winter here engaged ln fur buy- Low 8:06 Hews Cited As Force Against War OTTAWA C Free exchange of 8.7 feetl 19:55 lng. ! .vir.h 31. up to $192 million In na River level at Ter-5 13 foot six Inches last 'Ween feet Is conslder- level, h the Bulklcy river ines at Smlthers over- TERM DOUBLED OTTAWA The government announced today it is doubling the prison term provided under the Official Secrets Act, Canada's antiJspy law. Justice Minister Garson, introducing a bill to amend the act, disclosed It will boost the maximum term from seven to 14 years. SMUTS SERIOUSLY ILL PRETORIA, South Africa-Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, seriously ill on his farm near Pretoria, spent a comfortable night, a medical bulletin said today. He resigned yesterday as leader of the United party opposition. J. G. N. Strauss, once private secretary to Smutz, succeeds him. TYPHUS IN SHANGHAI HONG KONG Typhus, a deadly fever spread by lice, has broken out in Communist Shanghai,., a delayed , report from Shanghai public health review revealed last night. GOODFELLOW TO HAWKS CHICAGO Ebenezer (Eb-bie) Goodfellow last .n'ght signed a three year contract to coach Chicago Black Hawks for the N.H.L. He managed the St. Louis Flyers in the American Hockey League for the last two years. He succeeds Charlie Conacher, who resgined to devote his time to business affairs in Toronto. Baseball Scores National ' the year and more than double the corresponding figure for ; 1940. Debits to Individual ae.1 J j counts, an Indication of the high J ! level of business, reached $28.- : TODAY'S STOCKS : "c immediate danger C'onrtwiJf 8. IJ. Jiihnston Co. Ltd.) ins, according to a 460 million In the first four months of the year, compared to $27,040 million ln the same 'a louay. The Skeena W fight inches at The leaders of Canada's only rocialist provincial government was addressing a luncheon meeting attended by more than 300 delegates to the 31st annual district convention of North Dakota South Dikota and Sask-katchewan Lions Clubs. news around the globe would be one of the strongest forces against war, Transport Minister Chcvrler told the seventh Imperial press conference. Chevrier, Fideral minister in charge of communications, spoke to about 80 delegates from Canada and other Commonwealth ".ountries and opened the business sessions of the Empire 3 As a matter of rniit.lne Another French Air liner Down . BAHREIN ISLAND OT For the second time in two days a big B rench air liher with 51 passengers aboard plunged into the shark infested waters of the Persian Gulf near here last night and killed 22 passengers. Thirteen survivors, all French citizens,, were rescued and 15 or 13 .03 '2 .27 .58 .41 12 .30 Athona Aumaque Beattie Bevcourt Bobjo Buffalo Canadian .f ronlliuilne; f re-infnrpln the Vancouver Bayonne .03 Bralorne 7.75 B.R. Con or."3 BR. X 0W2 Cariboo Quartz 1.12 Congress 21 I the fvrr there. Consol. Smelters 105.00 Press Union at its first confer-;nce ln Canada since 1939. Railway Wages Recommendation "WASHINGTON, D.C. W A ; n(,avy vain, occur in U danger at high ' the river seemed to be the quick run off of the a nearly completed, It ieved. period of 1949. Chartered bankj investments in securities of all kinds were $4,453 million up1 $HU million over the same date 'H)Mlus and ot Job-creating (Continued page (I) Was Bride Of 2nd World War Mrs. Janet Jackson McNeil, 40, wife of John Christopher McNeil, passed away Wednesday morning persons are missing. The four engined Air France skymaster, bound from Indo ', presidential board today rei-cm- China to Paris, crashed only a j mended a 40-hcur week and an half mile from the point where j 18c Per hour Increase for about Trapped No Statement On Schuman Plan LONDON Positive state ments on Britain's attitude toward integration of Europe were 46 persons were lost in the ditching two days ago of a sister ship flying from Indo China. 1.50 .59 .29 6 90 8.25 .32 .47 .11 .08", .03 .65 17 .0? .rs .26 2.70 3. no 34 'j 1.53 Conwest Donalda Fldona Fast Sulllvnn Giant Yellowknlle . God's Lake Hard Rock , Harricnna Heva Jirknlf , .Toilet Quebec l ake Rowan Larorka Little Long Lac Lvnx Madsen Red Lake . McLnd Cockshutt . Moneti Negus ml Mine Hedley Mascot 29 V4 Pend Oreille 6.85 Pioneer - 3.15 Premier Border 03 Privateer 18 Reeves McDonald 3.20 Reno 0 Sheep Creek l.H Sllbak Premier 33 Taku River il Vananda -lflVfe Salmon Gold 06 Silver Standard 1 80 Western Uranium 80 Oils Anglo Canadian 5.75 A.P. Con -51 Atlantic 2.99 Calmont 73 C. & E -40 Central Lcduc 1-90 St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 2 MIN. Alia. m. at Prince Rupert General Hos-j pital. Born at Renfrew, Scotland, she tday in a coai 75,000 railway yard service employees. It recommended denial of wage boosts for 125,009 trainmen and conductors. Yard service employees now have a 48-hour week. The railroads and the two union; involved Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors now have thirty days ln which to negotiate under the Railway Act before the unions could take strike action. , . ,rater from the flood-d River inunriat.rt fho Bacon Subsidy To Be Extended OTTAWA The Government plans Jo continue beyond June 31 a subldv of 3'2 cents a pound rr-o uired to fill a 600,000,000- ducked today in Parliament, although Britain intends to try to make a "contribution if we can at a later date" toward ihe Schuman plan for pooling Europe's coal and steel resources. The Minister of State made the declaration to Parliament but refused to give details uider heated questioning. Noranda 69.75 Other games postponed, rain. American Philadelphia 8, Detroit 2 Chicago 5, New York 2 Cleveland 7, Boston 3 Washington 4, St. Louis t Western International Tacoma 10, Yakima 9 Victoria 5, Wenatchee 4, ten 'nnlngs Salem 9, Vancouver 3 V Trl-Clty 5, Spokane 4 Pacific Coast San Francisco 5, Portland 3 Sacramento 4, Hollywood 3 Oakland 5, San Diego 4 Los Angeles 8, Seattle 3 ln 'he mine when the men were reported ,vm the mine when the .7 ln but twenty-five saroty. 'J1 the -'vrr swept out area, compllcat-'nications and rescue ixrnnd bacon contract with the Home Oil 1650 was married there during the war to her soldier husband and joined him ln Halifax ln October, 1946. Two years ago the couple and their little daughter moved to Prince Rupert. ' Surviving besides her husband, are her daughter Joyce and two brothers, Robert and Norman Munro, all of Prince Rupert. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from Grenville chapel. Rev. A. E. Wright of First Pres-ibyteriRn Church officiating. .19 Mercury .20 2.30 .fVRI, 3.10 .30 2.15 3.25 .23 .98 24. Louvicourt Pickle Crow Regcourt San Antonio .: Senator Rouvn Sherrlt Gordon Steep Rock Sturgeon River Silver Miller Upper Canada .. Manitoba Flood Relief Canvassers are requested to turn in books and receipts by June 15 to CITY HALL (1391 United Kingdom. Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the Commons shortly after a cabinet meeting Tuesday that the Government had decided to continue the subsidy beyond the previously - announced termination da'te of June 30. Okalta 210 Pacific Pete 6-9S Princess . -80 Royal Canadian ".. 11 Royalite 1300 Toronto K ts in the Coal Branch AREA 3 CLOSING Area 3 halibut fishing closes July 5, it was announced this morning. fr-"- . nn of Edson and about s southwest of Edmcn-