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"Prince
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Key
to
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Great
Northwest."
PH0I1E81
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VOL.
XXVIII,
No.
67.
PRINCE
RUPEUT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
MARCH
21,
1949
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
cabs
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Currency
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Western
Powers
Take
Action
On
Soviet
Money
in
Berlin
BERLIN
CP)
The
western
powers
have
outlawed
the
Russian
east
mark
in
their
sectors
of
Berlin,
splitting
the
city's
economy
completely.
Today
the
Russian-backed
currency
dropped
heavily
in
the
black
market.
The
new
Allied
order
yesterday,
declaring
that
Russian
currency
would
no
longer
be
accepted
as
legal
tender,
had
been
expected
for
some
time.
It
means
that
western
Berlin
now
has
one
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
The
active
disturbance
that
brought
rain
to
the
entire
British
Columbia
coast
during
the
past
24
hours
is
moving
eastward
over
the
southern
interior.
Cloudy
skies
and
showers
are
general
over
the
interior
and
ARRESTED
AT
BURNS
LAKE
BURNS
LAKE
Clifford
For-ester
Humphreys
was
apprehended
by
Constable
W.
H.
Richmond
lust
Thursday
whle
quietly
working
In
a
nearby
awmill.
He
is
alleged
to
hav
left
a
trail
of
worthless
cheques
from
Vancouver
to
Burns
Lake
victimizing
several
Burns
Lak
merchants.
Vancouver
,
stores
and
hotels
claimed
to
hav5
first
call
on
him
and
he
was
escorted
to
Prince
George
enroute
there
Bl't'K
Afipr
a
stormy
gtmlriils
Counts
readied
last
:
I'm
ISuck
to
fs
0f
Carle
ton
ynw
afternoon.
It's
appearance
lB),lli'(l.
Buck,
'"
until
b.v
plane
j
sprak
at
a"
g,,
;m
Ottawa
g
said
(hat
the
tti(lf
what
side
,r
between
Rustled
Slates
on
I
circumstances
Uic
time
!
iiicral
Charles
is
leading
i's
kind
cleric.
Communist
ft
the
coalition
jrd.
So
far
;
per
tent
.
of
jjic
(onimiinifcls
currency
the
west
mark
and
eastern
Berlin
ha3
another
the
Soviet
east
mark.
Chief
Russian
reaction
so
far
.
was
a
charge
in
the
Russian
-controlled
press
th"
t
the
action
by
the
western
powers
was
a
fraud
against
the
populace.
Big
headlines
in
the
Communist
press
predicted
mass
bankruptcy
in
western
Berlin.
1
X
$71"
$
t
x
-
-
although
the
weathc
is
still
j
unsettled
along
the
coast
.
an
j
appreciable
amount
of
clearing
f
should
bring
much
more
pleasant
weather
to
these
regions
during
the
afternoon.
Some
cloudiness
and
scattered
showers
will
persist
over
the
mountains
of
the
Interior
but
the
improvement
will
spread
to
these
areas
tomorrow.
Forecast
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Cloudy
with
widely
scattered
showers
today.
Cloudy
tonight,
becoming
overcast
early
Tuesday
morning
with
Intermittent
rain
in
the
afternoon.
Winds
southerly
(20
m.p.h-t
in
the
exposed
areas,
light
elsewhere.
ILttlc
change
in
temperature.
Lows
tonight
and
RESCUED
FROM
CRASHED
PLANE
Alert
Skipper
Saves
Lives
of
Two
Airmen
in
Gulf
of
Georgia
VANCOUVER,
f
An
alert
roastal
skipper
last
night
ef
i-i
Tiny
Boy
Wanders;
Is
Found
Safely
Lynn
Mussellam,
two-and-a-half
year
old
son
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Edward
Mussellam,
"
P32
Tenth
Avenue
East,
went
f-jr
a
walk
yesterday
afternoon
and,
before
he
returned,
his
ur'"sy
parents
had
sought
police
.
L?lu
and
paged
him
over
the
raii'j.
A
search
of
the
neighborhood
by
his
mother
at
4
o'clock
1
''jd
highs
Tuesday:
Port
Hardy
30
and
48,
Massett
39
and
45,
Prince
Rupert
38
and
48.
fected
the
rescue
of
two
airmen
from
the
squally
Strait
of
Georgia
after
the
engine
of
their
seaplane
had
caught
fire
and
forc
4V
.
,
lFdiicf
lday
t
possibility
of
Hip
mysterious
i'lcaraiice
of
a
ijmati
at
.Steve-
TODAY'S
STOCKS
(Courtwiy
b.
D.
juiio&Uw
t;"
'
'
1
I"-
t
:
I
,
I',
-
,
J"-'-
-y'TTrTr--"--'"--?'"
to
reveal
his
whereabouts
mi
the
police
were
informed
:
:id
A?
his
description
was
broa
mil
over
CFPR.
The
toddler,,
who
soni
ii.
ins
vanished
lasl
adcr
a
"scuf-,h"
hail
been
ed
them
down
near
Roberts
Creek,
25
miles
tip
the
coast.
I
Pilot
Bill
Waddington
and
Ctaicf
Engineer
Hugh
Thomas
of
the
British
Columbia
Airlines
Ltd.
were
taken
aboard
the
converted
Fairmile,
Gulf
Mariner,
two
hours
after
the
skipper,
Roy
Barry,
had
spotted
dis-j
tress
flares
fired
before
the
Sea
bee
was
set
down.
I
Waddington
and
Thomas,
Miaky,
wet
and
"sick
as
do3S,"
fouiht
the
fire
on
their
$8,100,
.00
8.70
.03',.
has
shown
wandering
.proclivi
Vancouver
Bayonnc
Bralorne
B.
R.
Con
B.
R.'X
Cariboo
Quartz
Congress
:,
ties
before,
is
usually
tcWieic.l
in
the
dooryard
to
prevent
muii
expeditions.
At
5:30
a
neighbor
teleplwnen
hulryman.
Two
ih
iuul
thrown
fcviiie;li
(lie
win-ttilirfront
laun-
.10
1.15
.03
V:
.35
north
shore
ot
cove
(
lei
L
hand
of
picture)
where
Wacker
City
townsite
is
located.
1
SITE
OF
NEW
INDUSTRY
--
Ward's
Cove,
six
miles
from
Ketchikan,
where
American
Viscosti
Co.
is
establishing
$33,000,000
cellulose
wood
pulp
plant
with
capacity
of
550
tons.
Site
is
on
Hedlcy
Mascot
to
say
that
Lynn
was
han'ili'
Pcnd
Oreille
:
4.55
playing
on
Eighth
Avenue,
a
couple
of
blocks
from
home.
He
eenutderttble
puwe'i
"
will
be
had
apparently
been
enjovir.;
liquet
To
r'Qc
Shippei
"-;-m"5
""4
himself
Jir'
ditch:
when
the
:
rraTt
after
crash
landing
and
had
It
extinguished
a
few
minutes
before
the
Gulf
Mariner
fame
alongside
to
rescue
them.
The
damaged
plane,
filling
NIGEL
'MORGAN
Pioneer
PrlvaUer
Reeves
McIXnald
Rwio"
J.Z
1
-Sheep
CriM'k
Sllbak
Premier
.
.
in
;
y
i.n.iri,u
si
iiRu.
xi
us
arrange-
i
3
20
.19
2.50
',00
'
1.20
.35
.26
was
searched
previously.
inent
would
make
it
unneces
sary
to
build
expensive
power
facilities
in
the
Manzanita
and
Oy
Hail
Thru
Rupert
with
water,
drifted
out
to
sea
and
presumably
sank.
Taku
River
'
HACKfiT
V
,
-Tvvu.itH'll
t
i-inn
salesmen
kplimie
Company
racket
in
the
nif
La
Salic
dis-siiuroarh
small
Si.
1
threaten
to
aho-,
removed
tin-npwc
In
the
BOYS
ESCAPE
Mirror
lakes
watershed.
IS
RE-ELECTED
VANCOUVER
The
Labor-rrogressive
Party
yesterday
re-lunied
Nicel
Morgan
as
president
o
ftt.s
Biili.sli
Columbia
Vananda
33
FROM
PRISONS
C.
H
.
Ormc
left
by
air
today
to
return
to
Vancouver
after
spending
the
last
few
days
visiting
in
the
city.
KETCHIKAN
Ketchikan
is
riding
high
on
a(4o
nouses
planned
crest
of
optimism
and
enthusiasm
these
days
in
the
The
magnesium
process,
per-definite
assurance
that
the
American
Viscose
Com-;fecU?
b
ie
weyerhauser
in-
..
...
.
terests
and
used
,
,.
1
1
i'
j
ii
now
beins?
in
its
subsidiary
the
Ketchikan'
pany,
through
company,
company.s
Longview
mill.
Pulp
and
Paper
Co.,
is
to
build
a
$33,000,000
550-ton
uiJows
for
virtually
100
per
cent
Seven
Youths
Make
Getaway
From
Two
Greater
Vancouver
Institutions
VANCOUVER,
City
and
f
use
of
the
log
instead
of
dump
cellulose
wood
pulp
mill
at
nearby
Ward
s
Cove,
six
iiiwnbcrshiii
of
2,000.
-Ol
fleers
t'lecl'd
to
the
1940
executive
at
the
annual
meeting,
held
i:i
caniera,
were
not
announced.
A
spokesman
said
that
the
membership
increased
by
300
in
1948,
mainly
in
loosing
camps
throughout
the
province.
Salmon
Oold
15
Oils
Anglo
Canadian
3.75
Atlantic
-
''4
Calmont
38
f
C.
&
E,
4-70
Central
Lcduc
1
10.25
Home
Oil'
.,
13;!
Mercury
157
Okalta
2.10
Pacinc
Pete
M
Princess
Royal
Canadian
15
I
Toronto
miles
to
the
norUi.
The
land
has
old
hands
in
the
pulp
and
paper
ing
a
residue
of
40
or
50
per
cent,
as
has
been
the
custom
with
the
limestone
process.
If
the
magnesium
process
which
Is
beins
watched
hv
the
provincial
police
were
still
searching
today
along
British
Columbia's
Lower
Mainland
for
seven
juveniles
who
fled
Satur
game,
to
Ketchikan
as
general-superintendent.
He
will
bring'
key
employees
with
him
and
all
Jn
general,is
not
out
of
day
from
Vancouver's
juvenile
detention
home
and
Burnaby's,
been
acquired,
including
much
of
the
townsite
of
Wacker
City.
Negotiations
have
been
completed
with
the
United
States
Forest
Service
for
a
fifty-year
timber
supply.
Adequate
supply
of
suitable
water
has
been
found
to
be
available
from
Ward
Lakes
In
the
mountains
behind
Ward's
aui,UL
o
wui
line
mtxiij
municipal
Bisco
nisUtution.
.ll'a
the
experimental
stage
by
the
i
time
machinery
is
installed
here,
free
lime
probably
(will
be
used
instead
of
limestone.
It
can
be
converted
men
locally
as
possible.
Wright
engineers
and
millwrights
at
present
work
under
contract
as
maintenance
en-
PACIFIC
COAST
HOCKEY
FINALS
Westminster
and
Taronia
in
North
l,os
Angelas
and
San
lliejfo
in
South
,
NEW
WESTMINSTER.
mucin"
...
.
,
MRNATIONAL
INDUSTRIAL
JOINT
EDITION
OF
"
lie
Prince
Rupert
Daily
News
'
.
-
AND
-
.
'
Kclchikan
Alaska
Chronicle
f
"y
tin'
I'l
inre
Rupert
Trades
and
Labor
Council
Cove.
Engineers
are
expected
I
gineers
for
pulp
and
paper
on
the
scene
in
the
near
future
j
plants
at
Taconia,'
Everett.
Bel-a.nd
there
is
reason
to
believe
I
lingham
and
Anacortes.
to
the
magnesium
process,
which
is
more
efficient
and
more
economical.
If
the
power
Installation
Is
not
needed,
the
general
con
.18
',2
.52
.25
MVz
.14
98
00
1.25
.52
.55
2.73
5.50
.17
.
Five
of
the
youths,
ranging
from
eleven
to
seventeen
years,
escaped
from
the
home.
The
other
two,
both
14,
were
from
Bisco.
Police
say
that
one
of
the
escapees
visited
the
home
of
a
former
companion
Saturday
night
and
told
him
the
gang
had
stolen
an
automobile
and
planned
to
head
for
the
Okanagan.
Called
by
an
excited
companion,
the
police
arrived
minutes
after
the
allegedly
stolen
car
had
dis
tract
will
include
between
400
The
plan
for
construction
is
to
break
ground
this
spring,
with
construction
of
the
dock
as
the
first
item.
Across
the
dock
will
be
unloaded
steel
and
cement
fur
the
actual
construction.
At
bona
Aumaque
Bealtlc
Bevcourt
Bobjo
Bufialo
Canadian
Consul.
Smelters
Conwcsl
Donalda
Eldona
East
Sullivan
.
,
Oiant,
Yellowknlfe
Hardrock
Harricana
Hcva
llosro
Jacknifc
Joliet
Quebec
Lake
Rowan
!
and
500
houses
for
pulp
mill
that
actual
construction
-
will
start
this
year.
j
Prince
Itupert
is
expected
to
i
figure
prominently
in
the
Kclchikan
pulp
mill
picture
as
the
Ketchikan
Pulp
&
Paper
Co.
contemplates
establishment
of
a
car
ferry
service
to
carry
much
of
the
plant's
out
New
Westminster,
Taconia,
Los
Antjcles
and
San
Diego
threw
Hie
hunks
into
tlii-ir
opponents
over
the
week-end
to
gain
divi
j
workers.
It
is
not
stated,
how
Thre
old
ferries
reportedly
,
by
comp!U,y
or
by
a
separ.
O
ccasion-
sion
her!
lis
in
the
Pacific
Coast,
Hockey
League.
I
ate
financial
institution.
At
t
Ul
V2
!
-08',
.24lii
appeared.
least
one
life
insurance
com
fi
UUIII
Hit:
I31CU.MI.1
u
ojroirui
Paget
Sound,
will
house
nonresident
construction
workers
during
the
period
of
construction,
30
to
30
months,
it
was
re-
impeiiilinc
Slairhooil
of
Alaska
whereby
New
Westminster
won
three
j
straight
in
the
series
with
Port-
pany
has
surveyed
the
field
for
possible
housing
construction
and
local
banks
and
individuals
put
to
the
Canadian
National
Railway
here
for
transshipment
East
over
Canadian
National
Railways.
The
ail
vent
.U'l
'
4
.34
.
.08
land.
Leaders
in
northern,
divl-
j
i
won
regular
play
for
the
sea-
i
-
.
'lump
t.n
take
nnrt.
in
this
ntiRKft
After
an
Initial
325-ton
FUNERAL
OF
MRS.
VERM1G
Lapaska
0(5
oi
uie
over-au
project,.
1"'ih
will
b,.
removed
which
at
present
prevent
H
use
f
uK,
Vort
of
Prince
Rupert
as
the
gal-
'
Mask
t
'"luMiial
clcvcliinicnlH
at
Prince
Rupert
and
n.
notably
the
cslahlishmcnt
of
niulti-million
"iiulo
pulp
mills
at
both
cities
Prince
,i,lrily
being
well
under
way,
Kctchikan"s
"
wiauiicnce.
.70
of
Alaskan
statehood
will
facilitate
the
use
of
(his
port
in
serving
such
Alaskan
industries
as
the,
Ketchikan
pulp
mill
as
the
Jones
Act
wmder
statehood
would
become
inoperative,
'
The
Howard
S.
Wright
com
is
installed,
It
Is
hoped
to
begin
work
at
once
on
the
additional
220
ton
portion
of
the
plant.
Power
will
be
provided
by
th3
Ketchikan
Public.
Utilities
in
the
early
stages
of
construct
'on
and,
if
the
magnesium
process
is
used
in
the
plant's
operation,
Little
Long
Lac
Lynx
Madsen
Red
Lake
McKcn.ie
Red
Lake
McLeod
CoekshuU
Moncta
Negus
.13
2.75
.37
4.00
.38
2.10
son.
the
Royals
beat
Portland
1
to
2
Saturday
niaht
and
then
a
to
2
Sunday
night.
Meeting
the
Royals
in
the
finals
will
be
the
Taconia
Rockets
who
beat
Vancouver
4
to
0
Saturday
for
their
third
straight
victory.
The
northern
division
finals
will
open
Wednesday
at
New
Westminster.
Los
Angeles
Monarehs
knocked
off
Fresno
2
to
1
Saturday
night
to
clinch
their
series.
They
Amendments
have
been
added
to
exempt
industries
using
new
processes
in
Alaska,
th
ex-rniptkm
to
be
granted
by
the
tax
commissioner
on
the
basis
of
jobs
made
for
Alaskans,
costs
of
production
in
competition
with
the
field
as
a
whole,
permanence
of
industry,
amount
of
capital
investment
and
similar
iactors.
Several
contracts
already
have
been
negotiated
with
construction
concerns
for
the
plant
Itself
and
it
is
planned
to
have
1000
to
.1200
men
on
the
job
by
summer.
Some
Ketchikan
contractors
have
been
consulted
and
will
take
part
in
the
Nora
i
ida
531)0
Louvicourt
,
-19
Pickle
Crow
2
08
Rcgcourt
-
-05
San
Antonio
4-1S
Senator
Rouyn
.....
..'
40
High
Requiem
Mass
for
the
repose
of
the
soul
of
the
late
Mrs.
Ida
Pauline
Wermig,
who
passed
away
at
the
week-end
at
the
age
of
60,
was
held
this
morning
at
the
Church
of
the
Annunciation.
Rev.
Father
F.
J.
Rayuer,
O.M.I,
was
celebrant.
Interment
took
place
at
Fair-view
Cemetery
witii
Father
Rayner
reading
the
prayers
of
committal.
At
a
service
at
Grenville
Court
Chapel
at
8:30
Sunday
evening,
the
Rosary
was
recited
by
Rev.
Father
Mohan.
Pallbearers
this
morning
were
A.
W.
Burnip,
Charles
McNab,
Jack
Batt,
Robert
McKay,
R.
B.
Skinner
and
T.
N.
J.
Fortune.
Free
Hand
to
Help
Europe
pany
of
Seattle,
'Everett
and
Pellineham
has
been
awarded
the
contract
for
Installation
of
pulp
mill
machinery
in
the
new
plant.
It
is
possible
that
Morrison
Knudsen
and
company
of
Boise
will
handle
the
major
part
of
construction.
The
Wright
company
plans
to
send
Earl
Peters
.one
of
its
v.'iH
ni't'et
can
Diego
in
the
southern
division
final,
opening
i
hursciay.
San
Diego
Sunday
'night
defeated
Oakland
4
to
2.
President
Trunin
n
to
Slake
Request
of
United
States
Congress
e
International
Industrial
edition
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t.lnstory
up
to
date
in
picture,
news
2s
and
feature
stories.
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Diic
April
30
or
thereabouts.
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advcrtising
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of
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Calumet
Horse
Equals
Record
MIAMI
KP'-Coal
town,
Calumet
Farm's
great
four-year
old,
Saturday
equalled
the
world's
record
for
the
l'4
miles
by
winning
WASHINGTON
D.
C.
(p
l'rts-
overall
construction
program,
it
ldent
Truman
is
expected
to
4s
understood.
ask
Congress
for
a
free
h-ind
in
allocating
arms
to
Western
Europe
under
the
proposed
$1,000,-
LOCAL
TIDES
000,000
military
aid
program
National
Guard
of
Eskimos
Is
Being
Organized
On
Alaska
-
Soviet
Line
JUNEAU,
Alaska,
The
Alaska,
Senate
unanimously
passed
a
bill
yesterday
to
establish
territorial
national
guard
units
of
Eskimo
scouts
along
the
coastline
facing
Russia
across
Bering'
Sea.
A
similar
bill
had
previously
been
passed
by
the
House
but
the
Senate's
re-written
version,
with
emphasis
on
the
Eskimo
scouts,
must
now
go
back
there
for
concurrence.
-.
The.
National,.
Guard
bill,
provides
for
two
scout
battalions
along
,the
far
western,
and
northwestern
coasts
for
training
as
"eyes
and
ears"
of
the,
military.
It
carries
a
$92,000
appropriation.
Tuesday,
March
22,
1949
High
7:04
17.6
feet
21:10
'
15.5
feet
Low
0:58
11.0
feet
14:28
0.9
feet
BASKETBALL
PLAY-OFFS
TUESDAY
7:15
Peoples
vs.
High
School
8:15
Fashion
vs.
Merchants
HOOP
SHOOT
CONTEST
the
Gulf
Stream
Park's
$20,000
handicap
with
seven
lengths
to
spare.
Carrying
128
pounds,
Coaltown
galloped
under
the
wire
in
one
minute,
59
4-5
seconds
which
was
the
record
time
set
nearly
ten
years
ago
in
Brighton,
England,
by
St.
Andrews
II
and
equalled
for
the
first
time
on
the
American
turf
by
Shannon
II.
The
program
is
scheduled
to
go
to
the
Capitol
about
the
same
time
as
the
North
Atlantic
security
pact.
Truman
will
send
up
the
pact
for
Senate
approval
soon
after
it
is
signed
here
by
the
expected
countries
two
weeks
from
today.
R.
P.
Smith
left
this
afternoon
by
air
on
a
business
trip
to
the
Queen
Charlotte
Islands,
Prince
Rupert
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