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Canada's
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Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
285.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.",
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER
4,
1948
the
Great
Northwest"
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
jized
Labor
Enters
Civic
I
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Ti
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pn;
Slate
Is
Nominated
zed
labor
will
again
be
in
the
civic
election
'rince
Rupert
this
year.
M
the
Prince
Rupert
Trades
.1.
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In
Slip
Disastsir
Jj
a
special
session
on
civic
affairs
and
a
ameu
consisting
01
lour
aldermanic
and
lioard
candidates.
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CROWDED
VESSEL
THE
WEATHER
Forecast
ijueen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Overcast
with
rain,
occasionally
mixed
with
snow
this
afternoon.
Clouay
with
scattered
snow
flurries
tonight
and
Sunday.
Winds
southeasterly
(40
m.
p.h.(
gusty,
shifting
to
northeasterly
by
early
afternoon
and
decreasing
to
northeast
(20)
by
this
evening.
Little
change
in
temperature.
JLows
tonight
and
hinghs
Sunday:
Port
Hardy
32
and
43;
Massett
25,
35;
Prince
Rupert
27,
37.
ELECTION
IN
BERLIN
Deduction
Tomorrow
Will
be
on
Whtthcr
Vote
is
Heavy
or
Light
BERLIN,
Western
Berlin-ers
will
vote
tomorrow
for
a
new
city
administration.
The
ballot
is
merly
a
list
of
three
anti-communist
parties
competing
for
municipal
jobs
but
the
east-west
struggle
for
Germany
has
made
a
local
political
contest
a
straw
in
the
wind
to
show
which
side
the
Germans
prefer.
If
a
high
percentage
turn
out
to
vote,
the
western
powers
will
claim
3cra5
6mkiiaement
ol
their
fight
against
the
Soviet
If
the
voting
is
meagre,
the
communists
will
hall
It
as
an
indication
of
desire
to
force
the
westerners
out
of
the
city.
lkmm&''ut6&l
ftlA
mi
mm
m1mmm
CANADIANS
FROM
CHINA
Special
Arrnagemeulg
Being
Made
to
Brim-
Eighty
of
Them
Hc.ic
OTTAWA
Arrangements
have
been
made
for
some
eighty
Canadian
s
In
China
to
return
home
by
air,
the
Department
of
External
Affairs
announced
yesterday.
The
Department
has
arranged
to
charter
two
alrT
craft,
loo
kafter
the
necessary
landing
rights
and
solve
the
problems
off
orelgn
exchange
The
first
aircraft
with
forty
passengers
Is
expected
to
arrive
in
Vancouver
from
Shanghai
be
tween
December
12
and
16.
CAIRO
POLICE
CHIEF
SLAIN
Three
Guards
Also
Killed
in
Riot
With
Grenade-Throwing
Students
CAIRO.
9
Poiice
Viuei
Scl
im
Zaki
Pasha-
was
fatally
in
Jured
today
by
an
exploding',
hand
grena-dc
in
a
student
riot
at
Fuad
University.
Police
said
that
thre?
police
guards
were
also
killed
by
grenades
of
striking
students
The
university
hud
opcncl
today
after
a
two-day
shut-iiown
because
of
riots.
ISSUE
IN
BALANCE
British
Proposal
for
Palestine
j
:
Gels
Slim
Vote
of
Approval
j
PARIS,
The
British
proposal
for
tine
conciliation
of
the
Palestine
problem
received
a
slim
vote
of
approval
today
la
the
United
.
Nations
political
committee.
The
margin
was
fax
too
flarxow,
la-assure
adoption
of
the
proposal
when
it
is
placed
before
the
General
Assembly
and
Indications
are
that
Russia
and
her
five
satellites
may
hold
the
balance
of
power
when
It
gets
there.
CANADIANS
TAKE
LEAD
Appear
Headed
tor
Victory
Today
in
First
Bid
for
International
Badminton
Honors
TORONTO,
C
Canada
is
on
the
way
to
victory
in
its
first
bid
for
international
badminton
honors.
The
Dominion
took
three
games
to
one
lead
over
India
last
night
In
the
first
round
for
the
Thomas
Cup
and
the
world's
championship.
Two
singles
and
three
doubles
are
facing
the
Canadians
to
night
and
they
need
only
two
more
wins
to
qualify
for
the
second
half
of
the
round
against
the
United
States
In
Pasadena,
California,
next
week-end
.
-
wiUiMifN
iNHKKiTb
souu.uuu
fcriK
uuunar
Sjoeperg,
i-ycar
old
milk
route
foreman,
is
shown
(wearing
fedora)
receiving
congratulations
from
fellow
employees
after
it
was
learned
that
he
had
inherited
$600,000
from
Mrs.
Hevy
Hansen,
an
aunt,
who
died
in
Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Sjoeberg
has
been
known
in
Chicago
by
his
Americanized
name
of
Gunnard
Eric
frcaberg.
He
is
married,
the
father
of
two
children,
a
grandfather,
and
looks
upon
the
Inheritance
as
a
"fairy
tale."
He
says
lenal
formalities
concerning
flhe
Inheritance
have
been
completed
by
a
Stockholm
lawyer
he
has
retained
and
that
he"
expects
to
(to
to
Copenhagen
this
month.
TOLL
GREATER
EVEN
THAN
THAT
OF
TITANIC
IN
1912
SHANGHAI
(CP)
A
small
ship
crammed
with
Chinese
war
refugees
exploded
and
sank
out
of
Shanghai
late
last
night
with
loss
of
more
than
3,200
lives.
If
reports
are
accurate
,lt
will
have
been
the
worst
marine
disaster
in
modern
history.
'
The
loss
would
be
twice
the
1,517
who
perished
when
the
Titanic
sank
in
the
Atlantic
in
1912.
Some
4,250
Chinese
were
reported
to
be
aboard
the
ship,
the
China
Merchant
Steamship
Co.:s
2,099-ton
Kiangya.
It
blew
up
amidships
and
sank
less
than
un
hour
from
the
mouth
of
tha
Yangtse
River.
A
company
spokesman
said
that
the
Kianga
had
a
capacity
of
1,180
passengers
but
was
unofficially
carrying
2,250
mostly
from
Nanking.
He
said
that
another
2,000
clairibered
aboard
at
Shanghai.
Tonight
about
200
bodies
hud
bwn
recovered
as
six
rescue
boats
were
.searching.
Three
thousand
were
still
reported
missing.
Between
100
and
400
have
thus
"far
been
rescued;
Cause
of
the
blast
is
not
determined
but
reports
advance
several
reasons,
sabotage,
a
mine
or
boiler
explosion.
EMPLOYED
AGAIN
cashier's
cage
window,
forcing
the
teller,
Lois
McLeod,
to
hand
over
the
money.
After
shouting.
the
girl
and
another
employee
chased
the
man
into
the
street.
The
bank
which
was
robbed
is
located
at
the
corner
of
Rob-son
and
Granville
Street
In
the
heart
of
the
shopping
district.
It
was
crowded
with
customers.
A
similar
robbery
November
22
netted
a
gunman
$350
from
the
Dunsmuir
Street
branch
of
the
Imperial
Bank
of
Canada.
TRAHSCOHTIHEHI
MONOPOLY;
FALL1
INTO
LETHARGY
(By
PAGE
RIDEOUT,
Peace
River)
It
would
appear
by
a
news
despatch
from
Victoria,
that
Premier
Johnson
had
returned
from
Parliament
Hill
with
the
understanding
that
the
Canadian
Pacific
and
Canadian
National
Railway
,
companies
are
no
longer
interested
in
the
Pacific
-Great
Eastern
Railway.
The
attitude
of
the
two
railway
companies
is
Perisl
im
SINKS
III
RIVER
Battle
of
Nanking
On
Pressure
of
Communists
on
Nationalists
Eased
for
Time
Being
NANKING,
Communist
pressure
eased
today
on
Nanking's
new
defence
line,
100
miles
north
of
here.
The
armies
of
the
communist
general,
Chen
Yi,
in
East
China
are
reported
to
have
turned
north
to
intercept
"-250,000
government
troops
'
marching
down
from
abandoned
Suchow.
Government
military
sources
said
that
an
ensuing
battle
south
of
Euchow
would
settle
the
fate
of
Eastern
China.
Unless
a
big
percentage-
of
Suchow
troops
are
able
to
fight
out
of
the
communist
trap,
the
new
line
will
be
hard
to
hold.
Suchow
troops
were
last
reported
60
miles
north
of
the
line
and
were
already
running
into
stiff
reslsatnce.
HOCKEY
SCORES
Pacific
Coast
League
Vancouver
6,
Tacoma
2
Oakland
2,
San
Francisco
1
LOCAL
TIDES
"Suiidayr
December
"5,
1948"
'
High
..-
4:40
18
2
feet
16:05
19.0
feet
Low
10:17
9.9
feet
22:50
5.2
feet
Crowned
Grain
Growing
Kings
CHICAOO,
John
T.
Kllnk,
Hairy
Hill,
Alberta,
was
ad
judged
the
International
Oats
King
at
the
International
Grain
and
Hay
Show
here
this
week..
William
R.
Beattle,
Staples,
Ontario,
became
soybean
king.
U.N.
ASSEMBLY
15
ADJOURNING
f
PARIS
CB
rThe
fourteen-power
steering
committee
of
the
United
Nations
today
approved
an
American
proposal
to
adjourn
the
United
Nations
Assembly
here
by
the
night
of
December
11
and
12.
Russia
supported
the
adjournment.
Canada
opposed
it.
The
vote
was
8
to
4.
ARE
HERE
FROM
COQUALEETZA
,
f
Dispersal
of
180
patients
from
the
Department
of
Indian
Affairs
native
sanitarium
at
Co-qualeetza,
near
Sardls
in
the
Fraser
Valley,
which
was
recently
damaged
extensively
by
fire,
has
brought
five
new
cases
to
the
Miller
Bay
Hospital
here.
Many
of
the
patients
who
lia,d
to
be
evacuated
from
Coqual-etza
have
now
found
temporary
shelter
and
treatment
in
a
building
in
the
Immediate
neighborhood
of
Sardis.
Others
have
gone
t6
the
new
Indian
hospital
at
Nanaimo
while
others
have
been
taken
as
far
as
the
Charles
Camsell
Hospital
at
Edmonton.
LONDON
London's
Fins-bury
Council
Is
to
be
asked
to
make
register
office
weddings
"more
impressive"
by
having;
a
uniformed
porter
to
meet
the
wedding
parties
at
the
Town
Hall
door
and
vases
of
flowers
in
the
chamber.
Another
Vancouver
Bank
Robbed
;
Unknown
Amount
Taken
By
Bandit
lues
are:
Council)
ex-aklerrnun
ana
C
Kuit'ti
Consum-
ivc
store.
Ilin,
carpenter
anil
he
Prince
Rupeii
Labor
Council.
r.son
.agent
of
the
...
V
f
.
.
t
s
union.
pnrnien
Ml,
carpenter.
tioi
Hoard)
,ack.
long
proniln-
F.
movement
here.
humid,
formerly
of
Rupert
Fishermen's
lore
and
now
with
Iilvp
liver
plant.
labor
slate
falls
the
five
vacancies
manic
board
and
uicies
on
the
board
jtccs.
now
in
the
field,
content
will,
it
is
parked
into
uctiv-
desultory
interest
'
on
the
.surface.
:
takes
place
Dec
ill
Humiliation
on
SAWLOG
HIGHER
Ninr
Million
Over
1947
v
in
ine
rrmce
Tf
district
for
th:
Jlns
of
1148
shows
an
b.000.000
board
feet
Inn'
period
lust
year.
the
office
of
the
'ler
reveal,
ictioii
so
far
this
it
241.698,720
board
iiuired
witii
232,803,-
end
of
November,
of
polnsiund
piling,
(1
over
la.st
year.
jl;
total
this
vnar
I
lineal
feet
as
com-J2.25G.142
a
year
ago.
(i
s
sawing
scale
was
lird
feet,
a
drop
-of
under
October
pro-and
piling
cut
almost
liv-t
Sleet,
'
October.
fc
12,631
railroad
i
iK
the
month
and
,f
eordwod.
Murium
by
varieties.
N.
1.8.1(1.
.34,OI4.
f
2.-)8.65.
J0.81I6.
us,
239,380.
.
NT
JD
"
Activities
r
lining
Into
TON,
D.C.,
C?.-Mid-
'I
.secret
Department
fircis,
pulled
from
a
mi
admitted
former
'wve
set
up
the
com-'""it
again
in
the
,
s
Congress.
American
activities
is
rounding
up
Us
!
more
hearings.
nltlon
,,(
tt,n
riin,
I'ser
Chambers,
tnu:;-
who
said
he
used
f'uniiiiilst
currier.
He
fioiiiins
in
a
hollow
J1
farm
near
West-t'rylaiKi
1
6t
1
fe
Again
!K,
xt
Peace
reigns
Uie
entire
east
t.lip
Hpt
tlle
longshoremen's
We-
A
unlun
chief
uy
lhat
45.0(10
lnn--
fn
20.0UO
clerks
and
Mi
"e
to
OKALLA
GIRLS
ARE
STILL
OUT
Narcotic
Offenders
Still
at
l
arge
Following
Break
Vancouver,
cp,
Police
are
still
searching
without
success1
o
Tar
In
downtown
Vancouver1
for
three
women
prisoners,
all
blondes,
who
escaped
from
Ok-ulla
Prison
Thursday
night.
Tiicy
walked
out
of
an
unlocked
door,
scaled
a
nine-foot
wire
fence,
topped
the
barbed
wire
and
disappeared
in
the
wood3
surrounding
the
suburban
prison.
The
escapees
were
Thelma
Ny-man,
aged
21;
Mavis
McDonald,
20,
and
Margaret
McNeil,
20.
They
had
been
serving
sentences
for
possession
of
narcotics.
Rainmakers
Win
Again
Ketchikan
Again
Outplayed
liy
Prince
Rupert
High
School
Before
a
large
crowd
last
night
the
Bo-Me-Hi
Rainmakers
made
It
two
straight
over
the
Kayhi
Polar
Bears
by
defeating
the
Ketchikan
visitors
51
to
32.
The
effects
of
the
boat
trip
having
disappeared,
the
Bears
put
up
a
much
better
game
but
again
were
out-played
by
the
high-flying
Rainmakers.
.
Featuring
the
evening
were
the
half-time
activities
of
the
Bo-Me-Hi
Cheer
Squad.
With
the
Gymnasium
in
darkness,
they
did
their
torchlight
parade.
Led
by
the
cheer
leaders,
they
marched
and
sang
the
Bo-Me-Hl
song.
Then
they
formed
a
floor-covering
"K"
and
gave
a
cheer
for
the
Bears.
Later
they
did
a
"B"
cheer
for
the
locals.
It
was
very
good
and
something
that
has
never
been
put
on
by
the
local
schools
before.
The
game
started
out
with
both
teams
employing
the
fast
breaks.
Kayhi
put
the
zone
defence
In
a
bag
and
played
man
to
man.
It
made
a
difference
to
their
playing
as
they
drove
past
the
Rainmakers'
defence.
They
led
at
the
end
of
the
opening
quarter
12
to
9.
The
fast
aggres
sive
playing
kept
up
as
the
teams
shared
baskets.
The
Rainmakers
broke
Into
a
two-point
lead
ns
the
half
ended
18
to
16
in
their
favor.
The
fust
play
began
to
tell
on
the
Polar
Bears
and
they
slowed
(Jiwu.
Bo-Me-Hl
continued
to
pound
the
defence
with
fast
breaks.
They
broke
through
time
and
again.
The
game
was
safely
tucked
away
for
Coach
Bill
in
the
third
quarter
as
his
boys
built
up
a
16-polnt
lead
at
the
end
of
the
quarter.
The
Bears
shooting
fell
off
and
they
could
not
even
net
a
score
from
an
easy
lay-up.
In
the
latter
part
of
the
rinal
quarter
.
the
Bears
broke
loose
for
scores
but
It
was
too
late.
Bo-Me-Hi
relaxed
slightly
in
the
final
drive
but
still
munaged
to
increase
their
score.
The
closing
bell
saw
the
score
at
51-32.
It
wus
a
much
different
play
ed
game
than
the
first.
Kayhl's
man-to-man
play
gave
tne
game
spee.d
all
the
time.
Their
best
playing
cume
in
the
first
quarter
as
the
locals
could
not
do
anything
wrong.
In
the
re
maining
quarters
of
the
game
they
fell
away
off
in
their
plai"
except
for
their
outburst
when
it
was
too
late.
The
Rainmakers
'had
a
tough
time
in
the
first
half
of
the
game
even
though
they
led
at
the
half.
Their
shooting
was
off
but
in
the
second
half
they
started
to
roll
and
hit.
the
basket.
It
was
again
the
strength
NOTE
TECHNIQUE
Royal
Branch
at
Granville
and
Robinson
Street
Held
I'p
During;
Rush
Hour
VANCOUVER,,
0i
A
lone
gunman
escaped
with
a
sum
of
money
from
a
downtown
branch
of
the
Royal
Bank
of
Canada
today.
Members
of
the
bank
staff
estimated
unofficially
that
he
got
away
with
$1000.
A
slim
man
with
a
blotchy
face
pushed
a
note
through
the
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TODAY'S
STOCKS
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Courtesy
S.
D.
Johnston
Co.
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AMD
THEIR
Ing
of
some
kind
01
a
modeu
way
of
crossing
the
Straits
t
of
Canso
but
yet
have
not
awaken
ed
to
a
realization,
Thus,
these
few
items,
with
many
others
that
could
be
listed.
demonstrate
the
fact
that,
if
a
railway
proposition
turns
up
anywhere
between
the
Atlantic
and
the
Pacific,
the
promoters
of
such
enterprise
find
then
selves
up
against
one
or
both
of
our
Trans-Canada
systems
who
apparently
have
admitted
to
Premier
Johnson
the
fact
tlia
they
have
all
on
their
hands
they
are
able
to
handle.
If
one
should
consult
the
index
pages
of
tho;
Railway
Guide,
that
person
would
find
that
there
are
over
one
thousand
railways
doing
business
in
the
United
States.
But,
not
one
of
them
can
pick
up
a
man
on
the
Atlantic
und
put
him
down
on
the
Pacific.
In
fact,
the
old
Milwaukee
Is
the
only
system
that
can
pick
a
man
up
on
the
Great
Lakes
and
put
him
down
on
the
Pacific
on
its
own
rails.
Many
of
these
railways
are
less
than
one
hundred
miles
long
and
perhaps
40
percent
of
them
have
been
In
the
Receiver's
,
hands.
But
they
all
are
doing
business
today
and
their
time-tables
are
recorded
in
the
Railway
Guide.
With
the
building
of
their
railways,
the
United
States
have
built
up
a
population
of
some
130
millions
of
people.
And
their
country
Is
developed
out
to
the
four
corners
of
the
Union
while
we
are
playing
the
dog-ln-the-manger
game
with
the
large
half
of
North
America
with
some
twelve
millions
of
peopte
who
seem
quite
content
with
a
corridor
across
this
Continent
250
miles
wide,
and
wholly
under
the
control
of
two
railway
sys
tems.
FAT
AND
LAZY
1
We
who
are
now
on
the
"Western
side
of
life
may
recall
what
.a
powerful
railway
system
the
old
Qrand
Trunk
was
until
it
developed
the
transcontinental
bug
and
we
all
know
what
happened.
Many
of
the
old-timers
(Continued
on
Page
2)
that
they
have
enough
on
their
hands
to
develop
their
present
rail
lines.
Thus,
after
thirty
years
of
heartache
and
pain,
the
British
Columbia
government
finds
its
while
elephant
Is
still
thirty
miles
up
in
the
air
while
the
people
or
the
Peaee
River
Empire
have
been
laboring
(but
laboring
in
vaini
for
three
decades
of
years
for
the
realization
of
a
rall'artcry
to
the
Pacific
and
are
still
in
dreamland.
The
people
of
northern
Quebec
have
for
years
been
longing
for
railway
development
in
their
ricn
Abitibi
country
and
still
they
ae
wailing
for
the
sound
of
the
whistles.
For
years
the
people
of
Cape
Breton
Island
have
been
dream-
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12
Aumaque
I5
U.
S.
NAVAL
MANOEUVRES
in
the
North
Atlantic
included
a
simulated
amphibious
attack
on
Newfoundland's
grim
and
rocky
shores
near
Argentia
by
units
of
the
Second
Marine
Brigade,
clad
in
special
Arctic
assault
gear.
Photo
shows
initial
phase
of
Uie
tactical
exercise,
as
a
mortar
group
hits
the
dirt
under
the
watchful
eye.
of
a
naval
helicopter.
While
the
marines
were
landing,
supporting
naval
vessels
maintained
a
simulated
covering
fire,
theoretically
against
a
heavily-defended
air
base
occupied
by
a
major
world
power.
Virginia.
Continued
on
Page
Four)