PROVINCIAL LI3HA.1Y, VICTORIA, B. C. 165 PROMISE OVER -BERLIN DISPUTE BEING SOUGHT Nations Security Talk Adjourned PHONjE- starAcabs onr.iEs dugs Daily Delivery PHONE 81 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER L'ons Move to Have Crisis Ironed Ltives Propose 3-Month Truce Published at Canada's Molt Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXVII, No. 237. - PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS m TV.! sppuritv council of the United v adjourned until Saturday or Monday the liernn quesuun. meantime, n is ..foi nations are trvinff to find some BULLETINS i fliUal v o promise over the matter between the ers and Russia. A three-month truce have been sug- Logging for Celanese Mill to Start Next Year; Plant to be Operating by 950, Planned Large scale logging operations in the Kitsumkalum River ( area adjacent to Terrace in 1949 and commencement of manufacture of acetate celanese pulp in the 9rifl.trm nlonf of Prvvf TJVln.nv in IQKft ivcx tho flh. Nations execu- hreien Minism 4 . : I Llia today con- bssla's Andrei INTERIOR SAWMILL BURNS A sawmill at Penny on the Canadian National Railways line, 76 miles east of Prince George, is reported to have suffered heavy damage in a fire on Wednesday night. BIG FIRE AT COBOURG COBOTJRG, Ont. It is estimated that $200,000 damage was caused Thursday night by to end the w wi pun b ai luibuunaiu, in i -ui i. vv v jectives of the Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. in the I 5! Ljte over Berlin. great new $25,000,000 Celanese Corporation oi Am i said it was i 24 hours that Xd with lead- erica industrial undertaking. ber yearly, according to present Unlied Nations plans, will be logged out of the Kltsmukalum Lake and River area while operators on th-3 coast are expected to furnish Organization of the 'logging and plans for the delivering of timber by floating down the Kitsumkalum and Skeena Rivers are getting well under way. The big engineering job of preparing plans and speclfica-i tions for the huge 1, Port Edward some 10,000,000 or 15,000,000 feet tiX . i i ..I i - -- . , - V . w.i ttm Ends per year The logs will be floated down a fire which swept tnrougn the Dominion Wheel and Foundry plant here. The blaze was, apparently, started in a row of sheds and temporarily disrupted telegraph service. ' THREAT TO PEACE PARIS Secretary of State George Marshall of the United States said today: "If there ever was in time of peace a threat to peace it is the Soviet blockade of the Kitsumkalum and Skeena , mill Is nearine comDletion and ri (f Talk ON NEW ROUTE Once she sailed the waters around the Antarctic. Today she sails the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a common cargo vessel. That Is the career to date of "The City of New York' once the four-masted schooner "Sansom" of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's exploration expeditions to the area of the south pole. Shown here at the wharf at Grindstone In the Magdalen Islands, the "New York" is loading a cargo of salt mackeral. On her return trip she will carry a cargo of salt. (CP Photo) Avi ivi a aj a pirn "vuw v within the next few weeks ten- quarters of a mile above Tenders for the actual construction Eraph Point where an assembly work will be Invited. Early next boom wU1 be stretched across year it is expected the building the S1(ecna. From there the logs n-m u niA. riin .. . . . . Bar With Russia Led Bluntly Now "c unuci woj. uiucia iui towca to port fiawara. fcf.D.C, ff.-Unl- materials were let some weeks xhere will be one large drive Gene Bearden Hero ,rs to be casting a8- each vear to sweeD the river of lints on propa- Some 60,000,000 feet of Urn- all timber. JEW SUBURBS Premiers Would Meet Biennially LONDON, 0) British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, would meet in different Commonwealth capitals every two i? war with Rus- As Indians Win Again officials comes he day of golt e Soviet Union ARE ATTACKED DIXIECRAT VOTE COULD DEADLOCK U.S. ELECTION " - T JERUSALEM, -An official to a new period .ents. World Series Count Now Two Games to One. for Cleveland Over Boston Team Israeli source said today that , v - " three Jewish suburbs of Jeru week's talks among Commonwealth Premiers in London. salem's southern outskirts had been heavily attacked early to ED OF 9 RUE 0.-0 5 1 x 2 5 0 t Due to Rebellious Democrats, Dewey and Truman May Not Get Majority In Electoral College By CLYDE BLACKBURN . Canadian Press Staff Writer . GASSED WITH Boston 8 Cleveland 0 1CHTER day, They were subjected to shelling and machine-gun fire. There were no casualties, i . AWAITS BIRTH FORTUNE NEARBY BLIND TEACHER Seventeen years ago William Joseph Johnson of Brantford lost his sight in an archery accident. Today he delivered his first lecture at University of Toronto as a teacher and lecturer. The Interval represents .years of hard work for the blind man to obtain an education which qualified him for Imprisonment for MONTREAL, An elderly Uska Highway man and a young woman were CLEVELAND (CP) Cleveland Indians went game ahead in the World Series today, downing the Boston Braves two to one in the third of the seven- rramo nntoct Rnctnn Vind mnn tVf -firsT. ornmp Wp.d- WASHiNUlUM Kebeiuous southern .Democrats mi TrviNPl-I AM who call themselves "Dixiecrats" are not likely to JJUUUKunAWi found unconscious in a squalid HCt, 0 Gus- gas-choked flat here with a for ':i-jear old Day- LONDON. W) Princess Eliza tune of crumbled bills nearby. Ban, who had beth today settled In Bucking elect their candidate for president or the United States but they may cause an election staiemate Ift'that case the choice' of "president for Che" next It is believed they were -victim !t;!h the murder gaillV. ,UllbV.UVl L.VUW.1 T u.t i . , wvmw ' ' nesdar at Boston" Ttb & and Cleveland won .yester : ' . day 4 to 1. u such a position. He attended, the Ontario School for the "" Blind; McGill University and' , on the- Alaska ham 'Palace' la'-pYe'pSratlonv" for the birth of her baby next month. '' ' of an accident. Aline. Belanger. aeed 25. and her 65-year . old It was shut-out for Lefthander Thursday night four years could be decided oy tne House oi repre OAKS EVEN Gene Bearden who gave up five o years' lmprls-day in Oakalla uncle, Napoleon Belanger, were said today to be in grave condition. . sentatives, rne last time mai happened was In 1825. hits. The 28-year-old Bearden finally Columbia University at New York. All 'his notes had to be taken in Braille and his examinations written with aid of a typewriter. (CP Photo) baffled the Braves with his after beins con- Dewey will get the necessary 266 votes in tho Electoral College. Then the Hous of Represen Southern Democrats bolted educed count of the national party organization In anger over President Tru UP SERIES Lambasted Seattle Rainiers In Pacific Coast Baseball ' Play-off OAKLAND (CP) Seattle Rainiers dipping knuckler and gave his own cause a tremendous left with two hits, one a double off the loser, Vern Bickford. "; tatives would have to f'ecide the issue. In that case, each state Norman Whittak- man's demand for equal treat-1 ATOMIC ORE made no recom- ment of Negroes and the lnclu- group of representatives would SEES LARGE SHIP ROLE British Builder Expects More Like Mary and Elizabeth MONTREAL, SJ) One British shipbuilder who hopes to see more 80.000-ton ships like the to the future ot Both starters are rookies sion of that demand in tne party nave to aeciae, oy majunuy, aged 13, daugh- whom to support. Only 48 votes nlntform. The Dixiecrats have finishing their first year in the big show. . v were a little groggy today after AT HAZELTON far oid dead man, their own candidates on the the Oakland Oaks lambasted d she had been Bearden scored the first run would be cast, one for each state, and a simple majority decides. ballots in 13 states and are try them , for 18" hits last night to Indecent treat- of the game in the third inning. ing to get on two more. square the Coast League at a 'gner after the In the fourth Jim Hegan drove The House had to make the Queen Mary and Queen Eliza If they succeed In electing home Keltner with , the second game each. The Oaks knocked out two beth Is Sir Wilfrid Ayre, now- run. touring North American build o said he shot nsman accldent- B.C. Boat Founders "Malibu lnci, from Princess Louisa Inlet, Believed Lost on ( oros Expedition SAN DIEGO, (CP) A former British Fairmile patrol boat, converted to a postwar pleasure 'craft, is believed to have been sunk 800 miles south of here with loss of 14 After this Bickford was re homers and three pitchers t6 down Seattle 10 to 4. their candidates in those states, decision in 1800 when Thomas they" would control abdut 160 Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied votes in the "Electoral College" and the former won. Again in which legally and constitution-' 1825 the House had to decide oiiv eiwu the nresldent and! when four candidates split the ing yards. ftlng squirrels, told Manv believe that high costs placed by the veteran Bill Voiselle and allowed only one had not had intl- Tonight will likely see Guy Mletcher hurl for Seattle against of operation mean the end of with the Eirl. the road for the blg queens. vice-president. vote and there was no majority.! liberated for three Les Webber. But Sir Wilfrid, vsiiting hers, Discovery of Radioactive Mineral on Rocher de Boule Mountain Reported Radioactive mineral may be contained in ore from a property known as the Hazelton View on Rocher de Boule Mountain which overlooks Hzaelton in the central interior at the junction of the Skeena and Buikley Rivers. No confirmation has yet been obtained but samples of the ore have been sent to the Department ol Mines at Victoria for analysis. returning a ver- said there are good counter The winning presidential can-; John Quincy Adams who had didate must have a majority of ; only' 84 Electoral College votes the 531 electors in the so-called was given the nod although Colleee 266 votes. Every vote Andrew Jackson had received 99 hit in a neat relief job. Johnny Sain, who won the first game, Is expected io be Boston's pitching choice to morrow. It is possible Bob Feller may tie given the chance to redeem himself for Cleveland. arguments to this line of reas- after the verdict: onine. LOCAL TIDES (Standard Time) Saturday, October 9, 1948 pitted two previous Costs have risen, he said tn Vip lpariins contenders i votes. nwv vv v o but so have incomes. Passenger one for larceny on an absent makes It less likely that any THE WEATHFR chaise from the rates have Increased but there are more people wanting to tra candidate will get a clear, ma- Batteries: Boston Bickford (3 13 innings), Voiselle (3 23 innings), High 6:33 15.8 feet 17:58 17.2 feet Low - 12:01 11 0 feet Army. lives. She was built in Vancouver and renamed the Maii-bu Inc. Having come from Princess Louisa Inlet, British Columbia, the vessel had left California last August to visit Cocos Island in search of pir orlty. vel today than ever before in Synopsis The severe storm over the 'Under the law, the "electors history." The bie aueens are and Masi. are permitted to vote for anyone Cleveland Bearden and booked nearly to capacity on every run, he said. larine North Pacific continues its eastward moUon and Is now causing : : TODAY'S STOCKS : : they please, regardless oi me people's will but they always give the whole Electoral College "Aircraft are. all right for men gale winds over the north coast. in a hurry but when it comes to A gradual Increase in cloudiness vote of their state to tne pariy EYE IS HURT IN Ends Experlrd to be ate loot. DUKE OF KENT NOW ETON BOY is expected over the southern courtesy o. u. jui.n.iiuu w. ww. . 4Cl winning the majority in the coast later today with rain com luxury and comfort, there's only one way to travel by boat." Sir Wilfrid said that British yards, like those which turned Vancouver MILL ACCIDENT mencing late tonight. Intermit popular voting. ( FOUR STATES PLEDGED Bevcourt 35V4 Bobjo -10 Ruffala Canadian ...... .09 fnpreme Court Bralorne 7.00 Tn four southern states the now are Having sustained an Injury to leni rain is expected io persist. . ., . f. ... out the two queens along the coast tomorrow with!. ..., cn t , Windsor. Ene.. W The building 50 per cent of all ships Dixiecrats have received pledges t . . n J.. t i his eye yesterday afternoon as Duke of Kent, who will be 13 on showers spreading Into the In being produced in the world from the Democratic canaiuaw:. Octnhnr 0. is one of the 120 new- - Legal fight 62-year old ban -Mine ended today 'eme Court of Can- and thus playing an Important terior. Forecast . for seats In the Electoral coi-ir. that thev will vote for some boys attending Eton , College this term. The Duke Is treated part in Britain's recovery plan. Queen Charlottes and North Consol. Smelters 117.50 Conwest 1-19 Donalda 63 Eldona 1. 105 East Sullivan 2.90 Giant Yellowknlfe .... 5.10 God's Lake - -52 Hardrock 30 Harricana -063A candidate other than President a result of an accident in his sawmill on the - Kalum Road near Terrace, Colin Cooper, 23-year old son of S. G. Cooper of Terrace, arrived in the city last night from the interior and enplaned this afternoon for Van decision will lint. Via Coast Northern Section Rain the same as other new boys and has to fatr for a senior, I.e. clean Truman. It certainly wiu not 11 until next week. today and tomorrow. Wind RUSSIAN PRINCE IS FARM WORKER his studv. make toast and tea be for his Republican opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of southeast (40 m.p.h.) today, be evolves around the a rneasnro oHnniH .nd run messages. He is attach couver in the hope tnat treat coming southwest (25) after midnight. Little" change in tem ed to Q. w. Nickson's House New" York, nor fos Progressive candidate Henry Wallace. SWIFT CURRENT, Sask., ffi A Russian nrince, fleeing from !t in 1886 prohibit-niPortation, .sale or e Of the Vint.tt. ch. lareest at Eton, and sleeps In a perature. Lows tonight and B. R. Con -02 B. R. X 08 Cariboo Quartz 1.25 Dentonia .01'2 Grull Wihksne 03 Hedley Mascot 31 Minto 1 -OH'2 Pioneer . 2.35 Premier Border 02 Vi Privateer 12 Reeves McDonald 2.10 Reno 06 Vi Salmon Gold 10 . . Sheep Creek 1-32 Taylor Bridge 31 Taku RtMpr -32 Vananda -31 Congress -03 Pacific Eastern -09 Hedley Amalg 02 Spud Valley 06 Central Zeballos 01 Silbak Premier 26 TKhse four states, witn a toiai larae dormitory overlooking the ir. nnA his native land, has come to the ment from specialists may save his sight. The front of the mill carriage came off the track and ran Into highs tomorrow h grounds that it Is fnnl.hnll ornnnH The Duke Of of 38 electoral college votes, are F ncalth." rsiniifrstor nlo went to Eton Flat district near hei.e Prince Rupert 45 and . South- iBeaver work farmer laborer. The as a em Section-Cloudy today, rain , . .... ...j . ,,j Drince is Alexander Hanandij- Alabama, Mississippi, souiu Pornllna and Louisiana. the headsaw, shattering teeth, a fragment of which struck Other sons of King George were educated for the Navy. in addition, the' Dlxlecrat tonignt ana u. no - Grand Duke Andm. ECIED Cooper over the eye. ticket of Governor Strom Thur-Ugni tocay, commK uu gald he had . ... -ii., oHfnv-M30 m.o.h.) tonight. Lows and , , .. . Cooper is a brother 01 Bill Air driven from country to mond. soutn t""" i . . - . .... oeen Cooper, pilot of Skeena UKCIL country since 1916 and that his ernor Fielding Wright, Mlssml- hlgns tomorrow at rorw nam, Arkan- 42 and 52. ballot In oni. is on the LABOR RETAINS BRITISH SEAT STIRLING. Scotland. O) Transport. wife's whereabouts were not known since he was seized by i TnnnociPP I - - " Heva -11 Vi Hosco 31 ' Jacknife 03 Joliet Quebec -44 Lake Rowan 06 Vi Lapaska - -05 Little Long Lac 75' Lynx - -07V4 Madsen Red Lake 2.50 McKenzie Red Lake .... . .32 McLeod Cockshutt 1.05 Moneta -37 Negus 2.25 Noranda 52.75 Louvlcourt -56 Pickle Crow - 2.10 ' Regcourt -05 San Antonio - 3.90 Senator Rouyn .46 Sherrlt Gordon 2.31 Steep Rock 1.79 Sturgeon River .15 Silver Miller . .34 pt and Norway P In Scrnr.l,. ii the Communists. The 44-year North Carolina, Virginia, Flor Nation," ""Uy The Labor Party retained a House of. Commons seat In this constituency in yesterday's by- old prince said his ambition was in lnQrn fho PnnaHinn fnrmfnff Oils B.C. MUSICAL PUPILS EXCEL LONDON, Oi The Board Rnval Schools of Music N-Cuba, Egypt and election. ' Malcolm Macpnersou oE methods and perhaps later tabllsh his own dairy farm. lL electcd to,won the contest with a 3,000 ida, Kentucky and Nortn Dakota. ' They have suits pending on the petitions to get on the ballot in Maryland and Oklahoma. It would seem that Truman is most likely to suffer from the n.,t.n revolt. But If he Manitoba Fires Are. Smouldering WINNIPEG, O Weary Manitoba fire-fighters today hoped that rain would extinguish, smouldering fires in bush lands throughout the province. The prospects were, however, not too bright as no rain Is expected 1 day. , icuritv ri uunuu vote majority over a uonseivu- nounced four Canadian scholarships today Gerald Jarvls of Vancouver, ICOUVL'l, violin, V1U1111, $400; Hugh Col. William hoM u' tneir A. P. Con 23 Calmont .42 C. & E .t- 5.40 Foothills 3.30 Home - 8.95 Toronto Athona -064 ' V2 Aumaque -16 Beattie . -58 . LONDON O) When the Mayor tive candidate, Forbes.' ""but January , McLean, Vancouver, organ; ( of Finchley .appealed ... for a piano , Ptt returned to the Eileen Graham, Kelowna, piano to equip a home for aged people, he got offers of 24 pianos and should have more success than r" aiternoon bv air Kbai;nd patrlfa M' Rundle' Van" IS geiicinij f -',ni,vfr voice. LONDON ((ft The Pope's blessing was read at a Brompton Oratory vjnass for-'th 100th birthday of Mrs'.-'E,, MacMahon. 1 Jan organ. ) -"ess u-ip to possibility that neiuiw w v .