PftOVlNUlAL LI BRAKY PROVINCIAL LI3PART, 110 vicrc.iiA, 3. c. z:x m onr.iEs DRUGS Daily Deli very NORTHXR.N AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA 'B MVW5PAPKB PH0IIE81 HnhliKhed at Canada'a Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VUL. XXXVIII, No. 286. PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949. PRICE FIVE CENTS v V CABS A" r mm K a mm w lil I, II II II " mstractioEi D1U IViLUaii vuo City Goes To Polls Today A relatively heavy poll was anticipated in Prince Rupert's civic voting today on the strength of this morning's vote which saw about a score off people cast bal URGED TO DROP ROW BOAT TRIP FALMOUTH, England, h Stanley Smith, who last, year attempts at dissuasion of Paul Mullcr's undertaking to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat by a personal visit. He predicted bad weather at this time of the year and said that he and his brother are" returning to Canada by steamer in February. Tl A Tl Impressions of Orient United Asia Could Be Great Benefit Or Menace To Vorld In Asia there is the possibility of a great new formation of nations which, if they were! '-joined together, would be a mighty striking power The Orient, if it gets a lead from the West, could be a great ally in the peace and progress of mankind. If it is not shown honesty and straight dealing it could become a grave menace to the whole of the western " "' world. ad of ScfiaedliLi eeks Ahe . e lots for mayor, and six alder men and vote on two referend-ums, within the first hour. When the Civic Centre polling btaUoncd opened at 8 o'clock. ram Is ; only two voters were in sight. Body Found In Harbor One of these, Eric Faure, candid Federal Aid In Education INFRINGEMENTS ARE CHARGED TORONTO i Alex McGregor,' Ontario council member of the Dominion Football Association, said here last night that a Dominion Association's committee Is So concluded Rev. James A. Munro, general superintendent of missions for the Presbyterian kits ! W Phase VANCOUVER ff.-Body of an unidenlified elderly man was fished from Second Narrows by Burnaby police yesterday. Badly decomposed, it was found floating among logs In a boom. It ate for a two-year aldermanic seat, cast the first ballot of the day. -Within the first rain-washed hour, three more candidates showed up G J. Dawes, aider-manic candidate, and Alderman It M. Daggett and George Rud-dCrham, both seeking the mayoralty seat. . At 11 o'clock this morning, 172 'voters had cast ballots. An 11 :30 dressed the Prince Rupert Gyro Club yesterday on "Asia Today." During the past year Mr. Munro made a six months' tour of the Orient which took in Japan, China, Formosa, Burma and India, New and Interesting impressions of those After discussing B. O.T. F. policies, Prince Rupert Teachers' Association, at its meeting Tuesday night, endorsed a British Columbia Teachers' Federation move to have federal aid for education placed on the agenda of the Dominion-Provincial conference in Ottawa on January already at work probing charges that amateur players In British Columbia received signing wages and fees. CBC Makes Loyally Check OTTAWA P George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, charged in the House that the R. C.M.P. screening of employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's International - service is directed at a group "who are in a position to convey information to countries beyond the Iron curtain." He invited a government denial, but got none. Revenue on the construc-the dissolving ill of Columbia NEW ATOMIC PILE OTTAWA Construction of a second radioactive pile or reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, atomic project, was recommended today by the House of Commons committee on atomic energy in its final report, 'tabled in the House of Commons. The pro was discovered by a log scaler I working on the boom which was I anchored a quarter of a mile off ! shore. j Police believe the body may be Company Ltd. various countries were. given by jjjun i m a ii u is. 10. It was reported that tis , the speaker in a discourse which move was decided by the con-1 prove;1 of timely interest, sultative committee of the 6000 jffjcuit Japan check for last year showed that 150 had voted at that hour. ,The Hunter ballot form which weeks ahead of KAYOED BY JOE LOUIS jarlrs H Klotz, resid- that of a drowned logger. The body was so badly beaten by threshing logs that police have not b-en able to discern opssible marts of violence. inemoer leucuL-ia B.uuV .....-, ..Japan lg one of the most is; being used for the third time er, announced here ing in Vancouver. said difficult countries today," iu civic voting here, carries five "Education can no longer dc m Munro. "Allied control is Minister McCann disclosed in pages. One of these is for the ject's present reactor is based on the heavy, water principle and is unique in the atomic world. NEW ZEALAND CABINET WELLINGTON, N.Z. Sidney (i. Holland, 55-ycar old leader of New Zealand's National party, announced his cabinet adequately financed on the having a big headache there." Former Champion to Continue Boxing on Kxhiliilion Basis j CHICAGO Joe Louis will j continue boxing but "strictly on air exhibition basis" he said last $190,000 sewer fund-raising .bylaw, one for the elected park commission vote, one for mayor, one for the two-year aldermanic term and one for the one-year Landing Field Sites Visited Commons that a check is being made on permanent employees of the service, whose station CBA at Sackvllle, NJB., beams broadcasts around the world daily. Some others who made broadcasts were being checked and all scripts were screened, he said. narrow provincial tax base ,".( Tncre were seen at some places stated H. D. Dec, Federation tne most abject, poverty with president. "We believe that the st,arvjng men and women dig-growing; educational needs of ping lnt0 Ule Karbage cans, all provinces can best be met However, a good Job is being by a per capita grant from tho flone in tne way of rehabilitat-Federal . Government without lng sucn ciUes Tokyo after any question of loss of provin-, th'c devastation of the war. To-cial authority." I day a large part of the popula- Careful consideration was liwn ot the Japanese capital I night after knocking out Pat I Valentino of San Francisco in uldcrmanlc vote. City Clerk IL :0. Thain, acting in his capacity as Returning Officer ,is assisted by William Long, as deputy returning officer, and preliminary outdoor ;(,c job," according to has reached a point -as become possible to Tif n( those employees s!y in i he initial eon-S iiuiilistuntUiig fV-a, il bad weather, il budding program iffiiii the second and jsc luch Involves the nil the biiildint! shells m structure. ;v Columbia Cellulose Lid. placed a con-in extension to the r..uM ruction workers, viiu i lie li Till addl-'l unit, General work I il the plant will today. He will hold the finance portfolio as well as Premiership. He lias also appointed two personal ministers. SEAMAN IN CHAINS VANCOUVER A seaman is being held in chains here, a prisoner aboard the ss. American Mail until the ship reaches a I nilrd Slates port the eighth round at Chicago Stadium. The r e t i r ed heavyweight champion said: "I am fighting an exhibition with Lee Oma next Wednesday night and another with Al Bosnian in Oakland, California, on December 19. AfU-r also given by the meeting to the Iivcd in the country and trans-matter of Teacher Training and portation was by the finest ol Chinese Reduce Mrs. S .A. Kielback, Mrs. H. D. Thain, Mrs. Basil S. Prockter and Mrs. William Long as assistants. Involved in the contest for the certification, it was staled tnai electrical trains. It was to be Federal F.ngiiirrr and Chamber of Commerce Committee At Tugwll Island Sites of possible airport or landing development on Tugwcll Wand were Inspected yesterday by M. II. MeClary, engineer for I he Department of Transport, who made the trip on the depart the extension of the present , noticed how hanny were the. ti f I, elementary teacher training peope m the cities that had U! UOY I hpi'ii Mlnm-lmmhert Of conrsel the first of the 'year I ani plan teacher certification board, re- .seven positions open are fifteen candidates tour for mayor, seven for the four two-year seats and four for the two one-year ning an cxhibtion tour In South America. I've never boxed there." mental crui.ser Catherine B. and M'lTP iifi'i imtvinli'fl hv T N they had received special care at, the hands of the Allied powers, t ; - Tho Amcriwvn sy stem tit w-eupat.ion, however, must be ''ir bjMl!i"u:;li the holi-tv ' ,. , , . .. j Iraiisporta'ion ' committee of the r v 90 per rent ! . . . . . ritating" to the Jupanes even ' ,: " " ami 20 per cent panels planned for ; B,,u r- CIIENGTU" H Premier Yen Hsl-San Wednesday whittled his government to 107 men and prepared to go over the mountains away from the approaching Communists. Streamlining of the government, Yen said, has been done to keep it mobile. Ordinarily, the Chinese Nationalist government is composed of thousands of persons within the ministries and bureaus. Hundreds were dropped in presenlative of Education Department, Trustees and Teachers, will become a .naj'.w.objJicr tive of the B.C.T.F. this year. Various members of the Prlnc? Rupert unci i District .Teachers' Association were enthusiastic in their .'praise of the B.C.T.F. report which recommends the establishment of a "college of education'' which would direct the training of all B.C. teachers. Reports were received by the local on the steps which are being taken to improve the 'iineaity Deen iao-i though they accepted subjection as logical through their phjli-sophy that "to the victor goes the spoils." The speaker referred to the incongruity of the well-groomed traffic officers of site and wc al(1 01 contour ana .w plant are 'nomination day, terrace , TERRACE -Today was nomination day for village council in ' Terrace. So far little interest has been shown in the contest and Commissioner Emll Haug- 'land was relumed by acclama- tion. . ( wtmblinu. 1 sounumg maps proviucu oy Can adian Pacific Airlines, two sites ' i If lA In it., i-l Ir.ttl'i r mnrn I tl u I u.r t rl vc . -rrLc i'" """" "-- "k at Portland where he will be turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation officers for delivery lu Chicago whrre he Is wanted on charge of train theft and assault with a deadly weapon. The man Is Kodney II. Regan. The ship docked here Tuesday n'ghl from Japan. CAPITAL TO FORMOSA CIIENGTU, China The Chinese Nationalists decided today to transfer the seat of government to Tailed, Formosa. WINDSOR'S COMING LONDON The Duke and Ouchess of Windsor, whose financial resources have become impa'red by devaluation of the pound, will shortly make a trip to the I'niled States. The former King is here on business. The Duchess remains in Paris. i J J l J.isj .,., aiitch would iillof for a strin the United States military police and the inferior and drab Japanese policemen who aped them. The first class trains mi il.nn : I.UI ) 7ii)() feet long running the Wnnuivrr Chungking as the exodus of of- i length of the island and the other to ! about 4.000 feel across the north U10 end. status of teachers. In UHs con- were reserved for Allied person- j riciais continued from Chenctu, nection, the officers will re-oin-i H, nel, the Japanese bciim swept f..i, u,( I mib iuuimi iinunnimuv k.auiVL.1 aside to make way. The control this year. Most are going to Fitrmaii!) hv uroo nf Ttulnan 1c- of General Douglas MacArthur .03 "it looks to me like a very .1)5 V-i pi aetcial proposition which could 1.3G be curried out at a reasonable nd the Army was Indeed com- .d far to th(J 80Utheasl. Yen Qi.,irl plete . Yet there was a great spirit (continued on page 8) w it. mend that the executive appoint a committee to study the development of a "professional attitude" among all teachers. It was the regular niimUiiy meeting of the Prince Rupert Teachers' Federation which tooi; place at the Civic Centre with a .good representation of tacii-ers present irom all schools in the city. IKallel'sMan 'Arrives Here Benjamin Humphreys has arrived In the city to represent Frank Kaftel, Toronto financier, I who purchased the former Unit-' cd States Army administration building on First Avenue at Seventh Street from War Assets Cor- UKifrn is expected to take his slim forces to Sichang in mountainous Sikang province to the west. Kunming, capital of Yunan, last provincial capital of China, is being closed in on by the Communists today. THE WKATHER ir iinli-r cost." said Mr. Youngs this morning. Me was particularly Impressed with the longer field possibility . The Chamber of Commerce Is now endeavouring to arrange for a reconnaissance by a competent engineer who would be accompanied by W. R. May. director of development, Canadian Pacific 1 Airlines, who has agreed to come here at any time. .03 .30 , .07 5.00 3 15 .03 'a .15 1 90 .03 1 18 .38 .10 (ill CANADIAN CHAMBER MANAGER COMING Synopsis Vancouver experienced its coldest night so far this winter as the temperatures dropped to M'Dinialil Gives China and will the convert M. P""n D. Morrcll, general manager 'tprk . of the Canadian Chamber of property into an apartment 22 degrees just before daybreak. Indecent Assault film r The remainder of the province was cold too, particularly In the Cariboo where temperatures were Charge Dismissed iilcy HOUSE VETERAN The age of Thomas Langton (Tommy) Church,, member of parliament for Toronto Broadview since" 1921. is a mystery he doesn't list it in the Parliamentary Guide. But Mr. Church's love of things British is an open book; it's still the British Empire (not Commonwealth) as far as he's concerned. He's often remarked he's the only "real Conservative" left in Canada. Mr. Church was mayor of Toronto from 1915 to 1921. (CP Photo) rtiium lii ni.jir 7prn ! As Example Churches in this country which lack the enthusiasm and vigor to successfully handle their own affairs might take example from the congregations in China and Formosa where thousands and ' The weather will remain most- An indecent assault charge ly clear and quite cold over laid by a 29-year old Ocean Falls southern Brltisa Columbia today . waitness was dismissed by Commerce Jias written to C. A. building with an estimated fifty Beii.or, who attended the annual suilcs'- An architect will be ar- mrctintc of the Canadian Cham- riving soon in connection with bcr iu Montreal in October and ne extensive job of converting was appointed to the regional Uie building which Is expected to committee for British Columbia, start about the middle of July that he hopes to visit Prince with 'the probability of being Rupert berore very long. The oc- completed four or five months casion may be next year when later. the annual meeting is held in1 Some reconditioning work on Alberta or Saskatchewan. Mr. the building has already com- ! and tomorrow out a storm pass- i JaBe w- ulton m I i,,cr over Northern Canarin win : Court Tuesday afternoon. Oil AIR PASSENGERS To Vancouver Today) J. Prusky. C. H. Elkins, J. Sharp. To Sandsplt (Today) N. H. MeClary. From Vancouver (Wednesday) H .K. Small, R. McMullcn, Mrs. Ii. Blackburn. From Sandsplt ( Wednesday -C-. Nelson, Mr. Davies, Mrs. Mol-i tad . 4 00 1.20 8.00 1.30 2.25 .12 3.90 .34 .01 o.io j cause extensive cloudiness and snow flurries from the Cariboo Morrcll suggests. menced including roof and heat-ling plant. j Mr. Humphries has not been The charge arose when two seamen from H.M.C.S. , Antlg-onish, Otto Schramm, and Michael Parker were alleged to have attacked the woman on board the frigate while it was docked at Ocean Falls, November 20. The alleged attack oc- northward. Forecast North Coast Reg' . ii Overcast not mere handfuls attend services and where fine church buildings are erected and, difficulties notwithstanding, preachers are obtained, Rev. James A. Munro, general secretary of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, told the SONS OF NORWAY PLAN CHRISTMAS long in Canada, having come out Frost, Fire And with intermittent rain today. Tiirciiilo i Cloudy tonight and Friday. Little Business in connection with the Sons of Norway Christmas tree for children in the Oddfellows' from Hertfordshire, England, in j June. He served throughout the . war with Imperial forces In the LOCAL TIDES Friday, December 9, 1940 Fog Down Coast Presbyterian people of First .10 .13':. .15'!, .25',', 18.4 feet ! Hall. December 29 was discussed Nul ln African and Eastern Medl- Frost change In temperature. Westerly winds, 20 miles per hour. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert. 35 and 45 High cred in the early morning hours and complaint was registered 12 hours later. Counsel for the defense was T. W. Brown while Rod MacLeod prosecuted for the crown. VANCOUVER ((!) and traffic-snarling fog hit terranean areas. 20.5 feet by members at a meeting Wed- A fnnl r.l.illf Church here. Mr. Munro made a vigorous plea for support of foreign mission work. "Show me a church 3:53 !5:22 9:25 22:11 Vancouver Vancouver today wuaj with wiui the wic mer- Low j - 3.9 feet Two new candidates were ini- i ,,,,,,,,, . 91 , the , i - . . . Canadian Sni"iii.rs which says it has enough to do ! tiated into the organization j Jowest of lhe scason XhCre BASKETBALL! .04 They were can mosuiu uiiu ; were several minor accidents. Reccourt don Olsen. ' At New Westminster three It was announced the meet- fjrcmPn were injured and pro- TONIGHT 8:45 at nome witnoui, taiuiig paiu m the support of foreign missions and I will show you a dying church," declared Mr. Munro. "Go ve into all the world and ;ivan i.,r. for nprrniher ii Will DC post- nf.rlv rinmntre psi.;mat.ed at $20.- T Sr Sr. Co-ops fin-mis vs. vs. Brownwoods Income Tax Is Adopted .14 V)8'A 111.00 1.15 .52 .42 4.80 . 6.50 .35 "i .24 .07 .11 .. .13 .. .07 tolwknlfc LEO KARLENKO . vs. CHIEF THUNDERBIRD 3 90 San Antonio 3' Senator Rouyn 2 58 Sherrit Gordon Steep Rock 211 Sturgeon River Silver Miller 3 30 Upper Canada Uig - i r o ' W ' j poned until January 4. 000 was caused when fire des- Following the meeting the troyed a kiln at the Capilano On the Spot Election life attendance of members i Timber Mill. It took eight ' Results at Game ". were served refreshments. nours u pui, out- uie FELIX KOHNKE vs. THE SAINT TAG -TEAM "MATCH Leo Karlenko The Saint Felix Kohnke Chief Thunderbird Minister Details Uranium Shipment to Russia I IH'I ,, , , and ,,j the nl.ri, nitrate K. f,,r lor Q'lljl'i; , preach the gospel" had been Christ's words, he reminded the congregation. In its foreign missions in China and Formosa, Mr. Munro said, the Presbyterian Church had been instrumental in leading in the educational, medical and spiritual field on a national and not. merely a community scale: Mr. Munro gave the Presbyterian Church missions credit to large extent for the fact that there was 95 percent literacy In Formosa whereas in the rest of Income tax amendments, presented in the budget of Hon. Douglas Abbott, minister of finance, finally passed the House of Commons at Ottawa on Tuesday and will receive Royal Assent shortly, according to advice received in the city yesterday from E. T. Applewhaite. M. P. for Skeena. Word of final passage of the tax amendments had been awaited by business people and others who, for various purposes, policy In 1945 was to give all be , SATURDAY 8:30 p.m. Civic Centre aments medical purposes. Mr. Howe's statement climaxed a period of speculation provoked by statements to a United States Congressional committee' that three shipments of uranium products went to Russia in 1943, one of them Canadian. .. .8l . .().". 4 . .o: 41 ... .11 ... 3:05 ... 1.83 37 ... 1.03 ... 68,n M l.?5 Adults $1.25 (incl. Tax) Ringside $1.75 Students 60c shipment vas valued at 445 and was made through normal commercial channels by Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. which sold IU uranlum-pro-fluclng property to the government in 1944. He said that the shipment was treated normal transaction. The as a possible aid to warring Russia. The minister said that the Russians had asked in a normal way for 500 pounds of black uranium oxide and 500 pounds of uranium nitrate to be used in production of arm OTTAWA ( (!-Ut. Hun. C of trade minister D. Howe, today in and commerce, said the House of Commons that a shipment of Canadian uranium oxide and uranium nitrate went to Russia In May. In the 1943. In a statement House Mr. Howe said that, the estimate their taxes for the cur- Macey's, Buds, Grotto, Civic Centre T-T-S China the percentage was only rent year. twenty percent. I