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at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port'Trince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
GO.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
THURSDAY,
MARCH
18,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
nflfWsTnn
jt
In
alia
Protest
Against
Sales
Tax
BoCn
on
rOsing
BIG
FIRE
AT
JERICHO
CAMP
Arras
Slirnil
rs'
March
and
jjsliane
Australia,
(P
A
jH-lil
between
pol-jatUtrikcrs
in
Brls-v
caused
industrial
khuut
eastern
Aus-
1
Municipalities,
Labor
and
Merchants
Protest
Hue
and
Cry
Over
Three
Percent
Levy
Proposed
in
Yesterday's
Budget
I
L2
ii-:'"
Army
and
Air
Force
Suffers
at
Vancouver
as
Result
of
F.arly
Morning
Blaze
,
..I,..,,
Bccuncu
u
i
1?'
attempt
by
2UU
krch
througn
town.
L
coal
miners
in
Wales
.stayed
away
VANCOUVER,
Q,
A
two-alarm
fire
of
undetermined
origin
eariy
today
destroyed
the
officers'
mess
and
small
arms
shed
of
the
Jericho
Army
and
Air
Force
camp
in
the
Point
Grey
district.
Damage
is
esti
VANCOUVER
(CP)
Mounted
wave
of
pro-test
was
indicated
today
over
British
Columbia's
proposed
three
percent
sales
tax
as
municipal
governments,
labor
unions,
and
merchants
lined
up
in
opposition
to
the
new
levy.
Merchants
throughout
Way.
other
unions
talk-
kry-wide
industrial
mated
at
$250,GG0.
Twelve
Army
oificers
escaped
uninjured
but!
the
province
have
wired
protests
to
George
Pv.
Mat-
ft!."
'
.
i
?'
lost
all
their
bekmsinES.
Exnlo-
(thews,
secretary
-manager
of
the
L
HAS
sion
of
shells
m
a
shed
prevent-
i
M
AT
CI
Dl
A
7C
ed
firemen
from
approaching
to
iIUIlL
DLALl
The
mess
building
was
former-
M
VANPOIIVFP
British
Columbia
Retail
Merchants'
Association.
Most
of
the
merchants
protest
the
extra
expense
of
collecting
the
new
tax.
Mayor
Percy
George
of
Victoria,
vice-president
of
the
Union
of
British
Columbia
Muni
V
CALL
ly
the
club
house
of
the
Jericho
Golf
and
Country
Club.
from
rianr
Over
Twenty
Guests
Flee
in
Night
Attire
Fireman
Injured
cipalities,
said
his
organization
Ids
lOissian
!
FINDING
OUT
ABOUT
SALMON
-Some
interesting
pictures
!
juncture
with
Skeena,
good
spawning
bed;
(2t
Lakelse
Lake,
i
setlins
p'ankioa
net.
winter
194G.
3i
Moricetown
Falls
and
considered
the
allotment
of
oniy
one-third
of
the
tax
to
the
municipalities
"completely
unsatis
First
Baby
In
New.
Hospital
in
connection
with
research
work
designed
to
stave
off
decline
of
fishery,
(li
KhtdaRiver,
lower
Skeena,
August
21,
1940,
looking
downstream
from
a
spot
about
Vr2
hours
hike
up
from
background
as
seen
lroni
bridge
;
spring
salmon
drying
at
Bear
Liike
4')
fish.
'!"
Babine
fence
194'"..
Gi
Operations
at
Lakelse
Luke.
t
-
Brigadier
Gcn-J.iylor
was
injured
and
seven
oilier
'rachuied
from
a
factory."
Labor
protests
have
beim
VANCOUVER,
if
In
a
second
early
morning
fire
here
today
20
guests
fled
their
rooms,
many
in
night
attire,
from
the
Washington
Hotel
in
the
east
end.
The
fire
started
at
the
top
of
an
elevator
shaft.
Guests
escaped
unhurt
but
a
fireman,-
George
Hill,
suffered
hand
cuts
from
breaking
glass.
Property
damage
was
light.
wired
to
Premier
Byron
Johnson
and
the
British
Columbia
Fed
eration
of
Labor
plans
a
lobby
to
Victoria.
..'
over
Berlin.
j
Hit
United
States
j
v
ar
crimes
in
(ier-
i
f(!
a
w
renched
back
;
jj)
injury
)
i.
who
was
flying
j
fcral.
suflcrcd
a
leu
Sulnwi
i
Fis
1
1
(
ries
A
red
is
Fill
c
rin
if
Research-
in
This
Last
of
Four
Years
TERRACE
Yesterday
afternoon
the
first
baby
was
born
in
the
fine
new
ten-bed
Red
Cross
outpost
hospital
at
Terrace
which
was
officially
opened
luesday.
It
was
a
fine
seven
pound
-two
ounce
son
for
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Kennei.n
Kerr.
He
arrived
at
2:05
p.m.
and
his
name
is
Richard
Alexander.
The
father,
who
was
himself
a
Terrace
child,
served
overseas
with
the
Army
and
is
now
engaged
in
farming
at
Terrace.
The
mother
is
a
Toronto
girl.
In
a
$77,000,000
budget
to
propel
growing
British
Columbia
through
1948-43
fiscal
year,
Finance
Minister
Herbert
Anscomb
placed
before
the
Legislature
at
Victoria
yesterday
the
recommendation
Uia;
approval
be"
given
concurrently
to
a
three
i
tii.'
!
To
romplrlc
a
four
yrar
pi'OKrani
of
rronomie
icscareh
u
rk
to
.!iMcr
the
sii;'iiiie
iiiifslion
of
what
raits
Conqress
i
1
in
tiie
middle
of
UH'-inkim,
Russian-llll
ry.
i
line
of
the
salmon
fisheries
in
the
Skeena
River
ssslem
ami
Fisln
-ries
ii.'search.
Hoard
of
('an;ula
from
the
I'acili
-
I'.inlo
r
tin'
tore
I
wh;ii
nil
lii',
is
may
In-
lisi-d
to
rrtit'y
it,
srirnt
ists
.
iciil
Stat
inn
at
N'nnaiiiio
will
lie
ill
this
nn'a
iijt;iin
s
Split
I'
!)!,
11
il
loii'
to
organize
the
final
year
of
their
invent
ijrat
ions
which
h.o
lir
lr.
A-
L.
I'ritchard
senior
bioloKist,
and
J.
R.
Hrett,
wtm
wii
irn;';n
.-s
I'm-
J'cttr
years.
First
to
arrivr
will
in
eliai'vie
dl'
lake
and
field
survey
work.
J.
l'j.
he
percent
sales
tax
on
everything
but
essential
foodstuffs.
Mr.
Anscomb
said
the
sales
levy's
estimated
$12,000,000
yield
Unlikely
Truman
Will
Get
All
He
Wants
in
Building
Up
Military
Strength
Milne,
who
looks
after
statstics
as
well
as
the
lnlian
fisheries,
will
arriw
later
in
the
season.
While
to
Home
laymen,
the
work
that
lr.
A.
I.,
l'rili
hai
.l.
s
niur
I
i
1
i-.!
from
the
Naiv.irno
.station,
and
his
assistants
have
Ix-en
carrying
on
these
several
year?
may
seem
to
hac
!
n
si
nil
what
iihstraet,
'he
fact
is
that
there
Ints
brui:i
nsi.s)
.storm
moved
ci
liii.i
morning.
jfl.
Winds
ill
tin
I
are
"expected
to
-
tonight.
Skies
jzm
-
been
a
dt-Inute
oljji.ctive,
a-s
GAMBLER'S
WIFE
1
lia.'e
"gone
far
afield
in
their
search
for
information
never
be-
NO
TRUCK
WITH
REDS
Truman
Scorns
Wallace
and
"His
Communists"
Would
Lose
Kratlier
Than
Join
HERRING
OUTPUT
ON
B.C.
COAST
by
tin
would
be
harvested
by
the
province's
low
income
groups
through,
hwreasedNsorial
ervfces,
"
;
The
Minister
of
Finance
proposed
that
the
municipalities
receive
for
their
own
purposes
a
grant
equal
to
one-third
of
the
sale
levy's
net
revenue,
about
$4,000,000,
the
remaining
two-thirds
to
be
devoted
to
social
TMcTQ
nWN
!
IFF
real
real
attempt"
attempt"
Fishenes
forr
oMdln,xi
of
Uu,
natural
his
F
MivHv
l-U:,r
in
lim
I
WASHINGTON
p.
.C.
-TjJJttJr
ted
States
Congress
split
down
trip
middle
today
on
President
Truman's
plan
for
storing
up
American
military
strength
with
universal
training
and
revival
of
the
draft.
Party
labels
were
lost
in
the
shuffle
as
leaders
divided
over
the
two
measures
tory
of
the
salmon.
In
so
doing,
they
set
up
many
ingenious
as
ANCHOKAGK
-
A
veniitt
of
suicide
has
been
retunn
d
in
the
well
as
conventional
devices,
'
Research
Board
to
put
the
salmon
lisiiery
on
a
purely
management
program
-a
program
of
economic
research
designed
for
i
practical
application
in
conser-
I
valioii
1
the
fishery.
The
iiernng
canneries
of
British
Columbia
have
to
date
1947-48
turned
out
1.245,175
48-pound
cases.
This
pack
com-
iB-JlUI
arras
but
scat-Kit
ir!
rain
and
snow
xcstiiig
over
ln
Queen
.
'Iiee
coiMlitions
particularly
in
regard
to
the
I
NEW
YORK,
if,
President
counting
of
fishes
which
has
'Truman
says
he
would
not
ac-
services,
health
and
welfare
and
been
so
thorough
at
some
points
icept
support,
01
"Henry
wauace
wnicn
lruman
said
were
needed
,H
aao
,tll;ir.,,
single
fish
was
miss-!
and
his
Communists"
even
if
his
to
flex
the
muscles
of
the
coun-
Past,
work
has
largely
been
of
j
that
not
not
a
a
death
by
shooting
of
Mrs.
Irene
Yanson,
aged
34.
The
husband
of
the
dead
woman
testified
she
was
despondent
oecause
of
his
gambling.
She
left
a
note,
saying:
"I
wish
they
would
shut
down
gambling
all
over
the
rofuvjl
mn'int.
tils
Hpfpat.
in
t.hf'
trv
that,
has
hprmip
t.hp
nrinpi1
a
.scientific
nature
but
much
in-
ec
t.tiimlit
as
skies
pares
with
1.022,75'J
cases
pro-'
and
nuilh.dueed
at
the
same
time
date
in
!
unsettled
weather
1947.
In
the
latter
year,
herr-tiie
disturbance:
ing
fishing
was
suspended
in
fcvmee.
Clearing
is
I
February,
-
!(.
"w
tonight
witli
k
IT
li'iiuiiT'it
iii-.w
1,1
wr
k
T-iMri
teresling
and
useful
information
has
been
obtained.
From
principal
bases
at
Lakelse
and
B.
thin:'
Dr.
I'ritchard's
men
'TEEN-AGERS
IN
SERVICES
pal
protector
of
the
free
world
against
communism.
J
The
upshot
seemed
to
be
a
trend
toward
giving
the
President
one
but
not
both
lawsl
world."
Tagging
has
been
one
of
the
election,
most
effective
methods
in
deter-:
"If
Joining
them
or
permitting
mining
the
life
history
and
mi-
j
them
to
join
me
is
the
price
of
gration
of
the
fish
and
on
the
j
victory,
I
recommend
defeat,"
he
knowledge
that
has
been
acquir-
declared
at
a
St.
Patrick's
Day
ed
over
these
years
of
research
j
dinner
last
night,
will,
no
doubt,
prove
of
the
ut-1
for
raising
manpower.
Universal
military
training
looked
like
a
slightly
better
bet.
tUnder
universal
military
training
youths
Navy,
Army
and
Air
Force
Colleges
to
be
Opened
Up
to
Them
OTTAWA,
0
The
armed
most
value
in
planning
for
the
permanent
luture
preservation
.Marine
Inspection
of
the
fish.
.
o.
.
around
18
and
20
would
be
1
IN
EUROPE
'
ftrl.
Queen
Char-'
LONDON,
iV
-Kurope
divided
lorthern
Coast
.along
familiar
lines
today
In
re-PioAers
or
rain
oc-
action
to
President
Truman's
fced
with
snow
dur-
preparedness
speech
of
yester-iioon,
clearing
by
day.
Non-communist
newspaper
tonight
and
Fri-
ers
liailed
it
generally
as
a
forth-'sterly
1
25
m.p.h.i
light
statement
in
defence
of
I"
light
tonight,
freedom
against
communism,
jbi-
Lows
tonight
Communist
newspapers
for
the
Friday-At
Port
most
part
took
the
line
that,
il
f
U
Massed
28
and
was
threatening
talk
intended
jperl
3U
and
42.
to
create
war
panic.
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V3
i
General
Broivne.
Prince
Ruperts
First
S'ontinislei
Cusses
Jwuy
Prince
Rupert's
lirst
scuuftnasler
is
dead.
He
was
Maj.
Gen.
Beverly
Woon
Browne.
G3.
assistant,
national
commissioner
of
the
Canadian
RiM
Cross
.Society
and
chairman
of
the
Canadian
Army
benevolent
lund,
who
passed
away
yesterday
in
hospital
in
Ottawa.
Gen.
Browne,
in
Hie
very
early
day.:,
m
partnership
with
Iv
Flexman,
conducted
a
lurnilure
stole
on
.Second
Avenue
next,
to
Alex
McRae's
print,
shop.
He
and
Mr.
Flexman
organized
the
first
Boy
Seoul
troop
here
and
they
met
in
the
little
old
Anglican
Church
at
the
top
of
Centre
Street.
Mr.
Browne
attained
distinction
overseas
in
the
First
Great
the
doors
af
tw0
forces
wlU
Pen
crafted
for
military
training
but
would
not
be
in
the
armed
serv-,
service
colleges
next
September
ices
,
j
to
some
500
High
School
'teen-
ers
to
be8in-
training
as
offi-United
Under
arms
in
the
regular
States
services
(army
cers
of
the
Canadian
navy,
army
air
force
and,
navvi
there
are
anc)
air
torce-now
1.392,000
men.
The
total'
Opening
the
first
full
years
authorized
strength
is
1,732.000,
operations,
the
two
colleges
will
By
contrast
the
Russians
have
incorporate
the
latest
in
train-some
4.050.000
actually
under
mS
methods
and
a
variety
of
:.mis
aernrcliny
l,o
most,
recent
subjects
In
line
With
new
dlsCOV-
is
Meld
loo
otnet
JUNEAU
The
Juneau
Chamber
of
Commerce
has
adopted
a
report
backing
up
the
small
boat
owners
of
southeastern
Alaska
in
their
protest
against
the
too
rigid
impractical
enforcement
of
marine
inspection
by
the
United
States
Coast
Guard.
It
had
been
the
custom,
in
many
cases,
to
grant
waivers,
due
to
the
fact
that
former
officers
realized
how
waterborne
HOUSE
RENTALS
STAYING
PUT
OTTAWA
"iiiere
is
no
immediate
likelihood
of
an
increase
in
residential
rentals
announce
high
government
officials.
The
matter
has
not
even
been
under
discussion
.other
than
when
control,
covering
all
services,
would
come
up
periodically
for
review.
eries
in
warfare.
estimates.
101)4
V
'S
STOCKS
:
:
For
some
War
and
became
a
general
at
the
first,
ot
this
war,
tune
he
was
quarter
master
general.
i
I
United
States
services
have
been
unable
to
maintain
Courtesy
s.
D.
Jor.nraon
Co.
Ltd.
pdooooooooijooooe'Joooooooaoooao'iocK'OOC
j
commerce
is
life
blood
of
regarded
as
the
strength
through
voluntary
en-the
area
and,
if
tistments.
peiiiivrr
loroiit"
Athona
.it,
JT
.:'.-iiA
i.jtof
r.r
i
tyL",9
they
did
not
follow
a
reasonable;
Moscow
recently
announced
a
'
attitude
in
the
granting
of
pian
to
discharge
all
except
the
waivers,
undue
hardship
would
1920-27
classes
of
soldiers
but
be
worked
on
both
small
boat
military
men
said
here
the
Soviet
owners
and
on
those
living
in
would
still
have
a
"far
larger"
the
areas
served
by
such
craft.
I
army
than
the
United
States.
Aumaque
Beallie
.go
i
r
.
v
.
'
'
vt
-
v
Fishermen
Protest
High
Price
of
Gas
JUNEAU
The
United
TrollerS
of
Alaska
recently
addressed
an
open
letter
to
the
oil
companies
in
the
territory
protesting
on
the
increased
cost
of
gasoline.
The
fishermen
saya
their
operating
margin
of
profit
is
so
narrow
they
cannot
absorb
any
higher
expense
and.
the
inevitable
result
will
be
to
raise
the
price
on
fish
to
the
consumer.
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LEADERS
FIGHTING
COMMUNISM
Will
Not
Permit
Infiltration
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(CP)
Loaders
of
Canada's
four
major
political
parties
in
the
House
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MEN
DEAD
IN
ARMY
CRASH
B-29
tomes
to
Grief
While
Landing
at
Tampa,
Florida,
From
Spokane
Jacknifc
terday
all
declared
themselves
solidly
against
munism.
Joliet
Quebec
Lake
Rowan
Lapaska
John
Uraeken,
Progressive-Conservative
leader,
bluntly
warned
that
the
peace
of
Canada
was
menaced
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by
Communist
agents.
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Justice
Minister
Ilsley
urged
Km
Wgiiiiiaicd
$
Little
Long
Lac
Lynx
TAMPA,
Florida,
(CJWTen
men
were
killed
and
four
injured
early
today
when
a
B-29
from
Spokane,
Washington,
United
States
Army
air
base,
crashed
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Cockshutt
Canadians
to
become
"alert"
and
j:ee
that
communism
in
labor
does
not
"spread
any
further."
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Social
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leader,
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burned
while
landing
atMa-
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Noranda
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San
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TIDES
(Tic
erans'
pensions
and
allowances
saj(j
the-
Labor-Progressive
party
j
dill
Field
here.
Four
survivors
affecting
some
400,000
pensioner
was
now
trying
to
infiltrate
into
were
admitted
to
base
hospital,
and
dependents
were
announced
his
party.
As
long
as
he
was
Their
condition
was
described
as
recently.
Pension
in
disability
leader,
he
would
not
permit
com
1
good.
cases
for
the
ranks
below
cap-
munist
infiltration.
The
bomber
was
coming
in
for
tain
go
from
$75
to
$87
per!
Solon
Low,
Social
Credit
leader
a
landing
in
a
dense
fog
when
It
t
month.
Pension
for
widows
are
said
his
party
would
give
the
hit
the
edge
of
the
runway
on
increased
from
$66
to
$70
and
government
fullest
support
in
the
southwest
corner,
of
the
from
$60
to
$70.
combatting
communism.
t
field.
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19,
1948
RCN
AND
It.C.A.F.
CADETS
COMPLETE
MONTH'S
TRAINING
It
was
a
hard
but
exciting
experience
.ill
the
way
ler
the
67
Canadian
navy
cadets
who
returned
to
Esquimau
recently,
after
a
month's
training
in
the
cruiser
II
M.C.S.
Ontario
and
the
destroyer,
H.M.C.S.
Crescent.
The
cadets
from
the
combined
R.C.N.-R
C.A.K.
eoilege,
H.M.C.S.
Royal
Roads,
near
Victoria,
B
C
returned
to
Esquimau
in
the
frigate,
Antigonish
when
that
vessel
detached
from
the
other
two
units
of
the
West
Coast
fleet
off
the
coast
of
California.
Taking
a
"breather"
after
the
frigate
secured
at
her
jetty
are,
left
to
right,
Walter
Tilden
of
Montreal,
Vernon
Murison
of
Vancouver,
Pat
Morton
of
Brandon,
Man.,
and
Bob
Whyte
of
Shawnigan
Falls,
Que.
Returning
a
day
earlier
were
the
34
R
C.A
F.
cadets
who
had
30
daysj
training
at
Trenton,
Ont.
Senator
Rouyn
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