i t p?.cvi:::ial Lir?:.-'.? lb Victoria, s. c. lie zi, GilMES DRUGS Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S KIWSPAPZR Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port Trince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." PHONE 81 VOL. XXXVIII, No. 184. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS ' 'Quake Death T II May be 9000 uadonain Mounts In Worst Thirteen Forest Fighters Perished in Fighting Flames in 40 Years er Johnson Tells of Mousing Program Montana Blaze Still Rages Out of Control Anti-Red Alliance Party Ends In Killing SAW CIVIL WAK IN j CENTRAL AM M ERICA ' other! Pete Postuk, who, with Prince Rupert youths includ-J ing a son ol Steve King, spent' a while In Central America lastl VICTORIA CP- Premier By- (Vuatli'i- ((T) The unofficial death toll "(.rava'l Kcuador today soared above -ht reach as high as 9,000. Estimate of i twenty-11'110 mountain towns reached -nui.tlrrs thousands were reported hurt. ron Johnson, who has just re-' turned from Ottawa, says that t.hp Denartmenf. nf Nnl.innal He-' CIIINIIAE, Korea CP. Loaders spring is back in Prince Rupert PEACE RIVER, Alta One of Nationalist China and the with quite a few Interesting ex- man is dead and another Is be- Korean Republic called todav peritnees to relate including in-,ing sought by a Royal Canadian ,,r.t earthquake disaster in forty years. ,abi!''t voM in ; n t rilr,ht stored slowly as the Ecuadorian fence has plans for a $14,000,000 ' HELENA, Montana (CP) Five hundred fire housing program, it would fighters are being used today to battle a timber blaze build 1?00 houses in Great Vic- ?. , , .. ., . , , toria to accommodate services which ravaged a three-mile area since I nday, killing personnel. i thirteen forest service men and burning over nearly g,000 acres. Showers slowed the advance of the flames for a conference of Asian! volvement in a civil war. They j Mounted Police posse following powers in the immediate fu-!8aw a Part of tne world tnal, a crazed shooting at Lake Wln-ture to draft a Pacific alliance comparatively few from Skeena j agami early yesterday, against Communism. ! ever manage to reach. Mr. Pos- The dead man Is George The request came In a Joint l1"' Wh belongS t0 el1. Ward, aged about 35, of Kath- yesterday but winds freshened with clearing weather today. stalement by Chinese General- " V""" 1 ul '"- , iren, w miles spiuneasi 01 peace iju,( a' ''1'1 011 air lorce i ernes oocwirs, nurses 3 U '' P 'ins i,'u, tnwllcal "W to thousands of an as Hie injured. H &-udr. Tlirt-i' planes of the United T.:'.i''!'' :y; t!i',; SiaU-s Caribbean air command mt on iii'' " yesterday took nix tons of rears ami unln lief supplies . from Halbao to .,,1 Quito. They Included bhuxi :.s arc b' ii:R re- plasma, serums and drugs. River. nupvii, jiihiis on siuuyuig The object of the R.C.M.P. Woodnound search Is Ward's Australians Work Again Seven Thousand Men Back to Jobs as Result of Forces Working Coal Mines tsslmo Chiang Kai-Shek and President Byngnian Rliee of South Korea after a two-day conference here. ' They asked President Elpidlo Qulrlno of 'the Philippines to frjend, Louis Nadeau, a treaty Indian, alsc of Kathleen. Witnesses told police that the EDITH CAVELL REMEMBERED Memorial Servrle Held at Jasper for wenly-Fifth Time jaw" r I mooting occurred lollowmg a summon the powers. 1 11 M W I ... S. party In a thack on the shore of Lake Winagami, two miles from Kathleen. The area Is about 250 miles northwest of fr- . -' ' ...r-vi j " a d " . . -Zi L. lr- . -- - JASPER PARK For the t n 1 SYDNEY, Australia More than 7,000 workers made idle for the last six weeks by the country-wide coal strike today went back to work. Their return to their jobs was the first big result of the Army's work-Ine of the cnen-cut coal mines 'CITY COUPLE ,WED 50 YFARS I Mr. nnd Mrs A. G. Brain of Nils city received congratula i twenty-fifth successive year, the memory of Nurse Edith Cavell, heroic British patriot, who was' executed by the Germans in 1915, yesterday was honored in a special service In the little j in New South Wales as a coun- ter to the strike of Australia's tions at the week-end from friends anil family members on P Anglican unurcn oi hi. Mary and St. George in Jasper village. 24,000 miners for wat?e Increase and reduction in the work week. Tuesday, August 9, J949 209 feet T ll CI . fl f ......... AM marking their golden wedding anniversary Saturday. The couple, who now live in retirement, were wed 50 years ago at. Bristol, England. ' Their anniversary was ob While the ' great mountain High 1:23 which bears her name and' 14:16 which Is visible from the church Low ,.. 7:57 reared its massive snow-capped: 20:07 peak Into storm-tossed clouds. I ,t- m(. iiv; (my hi wi 19 5 feet lasl WMk- tnR Army delivered 2 2 feet 2.5u0 tons of coal to the rail 63 feet i heads. This was barely ten per- I cent of normal coal production manv guests of the Lodge join STOCKS inere but alrpaay 't nas bPrn ed with local parishioners to fill TODAY'S rati - f served quietly at their home on Eighth Avenue. A musician for more than half a century, Mr. Brain Is now a enous;n to ease me mas' it the quaint edifice and listen ' (Courtesy a D. Jutuutcn Co. Ltd.) again to uie w'n'u hip nrru-i v ism of Edith Cavell. "1 EAST MEETS WEST Premier Joseph Smallwood, left, of New-fotinflland jind Premier. Byron Johnson of British Columbia .geki. Co'freUier in Ottawa for a brief chat on provincial affairs. Both premiers have been in Ottawa for discussions with federal of fi-' cials. C. P. Photo) Tlie state government, as a It was on August 5, 1915, that , member of the Prince Rupert Shrine Club Band and the city's Symphony Orchestra. result, now allows bulldin material, printing, clothing. rubber and shoe factories and laundries to use electricity. Cheerful and In good health, I tlu couple come from a family i noted for long marriages. Mr. Brain's parents celebrated their Nurse Edith Cavell was arrested by the Germans ' in Brussels, Belgium, for aiding the escape of Allied soldiers. She was shot to death on October 12 of the same year. "Her arrest and death marked a turning point In thi3 Vancouver Bayonne 05',2 Bralorne 10.00 B R. Con. 03 r Cariboo Quartz 1.15 Congress 03 Vi Hedley Mascot .24 Pend Oreille 4.85 Pioneer 3.60 Premier Border 03 Vi Privateer 21 i Reeves McDonald 2.40 I Reno .04 '2 ONTARIO OFF AFTER 3-DAY VISIT HERE THE WLATHER golden wedding ; before their deaths and one of his brothers', celebrated half a cfiitury of I world," said the rector. Rev. T Syrnpsis A weak disturbance which en marriage a couple of years ago, C. B. Boon. "It was the inaug- In New Zealand. ailable Friday and Saturday evenings. . "Prince Rupert really has .a good -name among the navy." said one Petty Officer. "I hava visited this port before on other ships and the people here al ways make us welcome." The vessel Itself was open to public Inspection Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Literally hundreds of people took advantage of the opportunity and boarded the ship's boats at the navy jetty at the foot of Mc- I urat.ion of what we were to call I total war. A great nation j threw overboard its conscience and the gates of hell were open-i ed, so that things have never INQUEST IS ADJOURNED Sheep Creek 1.20 Silbak Premier 40 Taku River 25 Vananda 15 Salmon Gold 14 l;rs; ft ,. ' farewell wail of her with of Bri- tered the coastal regions tish Columbia' last night Is . H.M.C.S. ( Ontario lifted moving slowly bver t he interior i her anchor and slipped out of Another harbor at 6:30 this mom-storm of the provlnca today. in the Gulf of Alaska Is ing, terminating a three-day expected to bring more rain to ' visit which marked the third and final liberty period for her crew the north coast by tomorrow! morning. Cool unsettled wea-'of 775 on their month-long ther is expectd over most areas training cruise, of the province today. The 10,000-ton cruiser, senior been the same since." Mr. Boon dwelt upon Nurse Cavell's high sense of duty and Oils- Bride Street. (Continued on Page d '-. A week's adjournment to assemble witnesses was granted Saturday afternoon by Coroner M. M. Stephens in the inquest into the death of Robert Sam-pare, 19-year-old native youth, whose body was found floating near Inverness Cannery on Friday, three weeks after his dis ship of the navy's Pacific Command, will spend the next week Foretast her courage, and the lesson contained in her remark, as she was being led out for execution, that patriotism Is not enough. Suitable hymns and psalms were chosen for the occasion. Anglo Canadian 3.20 A.P. Con 15 Atlantic .65 Calmont 31 C. & E. , 4.45 Central Leduc 75 Home Oil 9.25 Mercury .09 Okalta 1.35 Patific Pete 2.35 North Coast Cloudy with at sea continuing the training widely scattered showers today 0( ner crew jn gunnery and sea-intermittent rain tomorrow. manship and will return to her Little change in temperature. base al H-squima.lt on August 14. Wind light, becoming southeast Ontario docked here at" 9 M-Paul LabHlc rfciht. of St. Eustache, Que., who rie pni',!h,n,(l under the guidance or the brown-""faUiM.s, t.Uks wnh Rev. Eleutherlu-s at the site s junior residnit college at Blenheim. Ont. The orciwc t their superior general, Father Dumas, ' hoped thr orrler of Friars would have their own , jmm:on This fall, the $50,000 structure, first of -Anada. will bo (,,n,Cd. The windmill In the back-orout-rit fr.nii Upland by one of the Capuchin 'v' as1'. (C. P. Photo) BUD WARD IS r GOLF WINNER TRAIL Bud Ward, former Spokane amateur and now (20 mphi tomorrow afternoon. 0'ciock Friday morning after' appearance from S u n n y s 1 d e Cannery. The Inquest was adjourned after the jurors had viewed the body which was formally identified by Eddie Ben-Eon, Sampare's uncle. Jurors on MACKENZIE KING VISITING MAINE OTTAWA- Rt. Hon. W. L MacKenzie King is the guest ol John D. Rockefeller, jr., at Seal Harbor, Me. of Great Falls, Montana, won the Trail-Rossland open - witti 11 under par of '203. He beat Vancouver's Bill Mawhlnney who was five under, 211. Princess .-. 20 Royal Canadian 06',2 Toronto Lows tonight and highs tomor- cruismg Alaskan waters. Dur-row at Port Hardy 48 and 62, ing ihat Ume she visit,ed Kodla'; Massett and Prince Rupert' 50 and Juneau Her call here was and 60. her ta3t at coast ports before I returning to base. the innuest are A. O. Bartlrtt. mmity n3, '.16 .65 Athona Aumaque Beattle foreman, Herbert Chandler, Wil jSANDSPIT WHARF STARTING SOON D o ctonmpr ,,, Princess Princess: Officers and men were sincere liam Brlant, Walter Dell, Sev Bevcourt 29 Vi Domlnato and O. Kclmel. n their praise of the hospitality Kathleen carrying 304 passen- nl to- of the city, particularly that of AIR PASSENGERS To Vancouver Mrs. B. Mc-Cauley, J. D. Yager, Miss M. E .Cody, J. Delinks, Mrs. J. . Kas-per, Mrs. M. E. Reid, A. Bush Southbound from one of her rtiarter cruises to Alaska, the yacht Prlncipia. Capt. M. C. Riggs, was in port Sunday evening. She carried 20 geia, - r.in T.ptrlnn which rnnk dav northbound from vancou- vu..v... - leadership in organizing sports ver for Juneau and Skagway. of events anu mm- command She was under r!! ,oh., Hnehes of their Third Avenue club av- Bobjo :. 153,4 Buffalo Canadian 14 Consol. Smelters 93.00 Con west 1.18 Donalda 59 Vi Eldona .67Vi East Sullivan 2.31 Giant Yellowknife 7.00 God's Lake 4 Miirf t al Armrd n" l-tadtrs - Aiimii.ti Louis Opv. o After having been in this dls-l rict for the tpast ten days on ifflcial business, C. F. P. Faulk-ler, assistant district engineer for the federal department o.' public works, is sailing by the Cnmnstm tomorrow afternoon on his return to Vancouver. Accompanying him will be F. C. Slee, man, Ji. T. Yates, Mrs. J. R. Carson and two children, T. Kelsey, H. E. McDonald. To Sandspit J. Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. B. Roberts. From Vancouver Mrs. A. .y- t It" I'.M r 1 1 Hararock m'a liarncana uo',4 hnt ,.:,,.f (J. al l!' v-o-k-rn ! 'sr'"'.t imauimii "llle-ftj in win,-;w-'f'His 6hou I final year engineering stuc.ent Eastwood, M J. Evans, Mrs. E. Brown, Mrs. Hoar, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. A. D. Lawrence, J. Gendre, A. Barr, E. Ashcroft, Miss Walstra, C.L.M. Glggey, J. Clarke, T. E. Morrison, K. Dixon. (Q.C.A.) Heva 08 Hosco 17 Jacknife 07 V Jollet Quebec -51 Z a J-.-3. ?1 ut the University of British Columbia, who hos been attained To Masse t H. . Wipperman. . cj t- a LONDON '(P1 Police telephone! V " - or . i! ' f ',1 UprrB talks bv Ai ,- ';,wh f strr i, :;"' ouifh a,d '"'""y leaders. v?1 a, r,e to the department for 1 summer work. While here Mr. Faulkner visited Stewart, Alice Arm, Port Es-sington and Port Clements In connection with departmental projects, haying marie the round trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands on the Coqulllam at the - - .... &JSiXr. m booths throughout, Britain are to be painted azure blue. CHUDLEIGH, Devon, Eng. HP-Lord Clifford is disopsing of his herd of 200 deer because high 9!l Lake Rowan 08 Lapaska 06 Little Long Lac 61 Lynx : 15Vi Madsen Red Lake 3.05 McKenzie Red Lake 51 MeLeod Cockshutt 1.15 Moneta 45 Negus 2.50 Noranda 58.00 Louvicourt 13 Pickle Crow 2.20 Regcourt -05 San Antonio 4.55 . Senator Rouyn ; 42 Sherrlt Gordon 2.45 Steep Rock ' 171 'h western " leaders. 1,5 ero made, D-n. week-end. Mr. Faulkner states that work .,4 of wharf renewal at Sandspit, for which Fred Atkins and Elmer Palmer have received the con I Li 1 1 - taxes make it necessary to pul the grazing land to more profitable use. FISH SALES . Black Cod Sea Ranger, 34,000, 'Storage, 9c and 5c. tract, should get under wu" In IN LIMELIOHGT Eleanor Roosevelt who has been crlt- L OT0Rs two or three weeks. Cruototed SWING-Thc swordfishmg season In fuU swing off the Cape Breton coast FULL SEASON IN afapZximateS 1,000 vessels ply the choppy waters in search of the elusive broadbill. Here a poXn oTthey300-boat fleet operating out of Glace Bay's easy harbor is shown a anchor. Sturgeon River .1834 plling is expected to be delivered , iclzed by Cardinal Spellman for toward the end of this month, her stand on aid to Catholic It is a $70,000 job at Sund.splt, schools. Dovre B., 16,000, Co-op. Gulvik, 12,000, Co-op. Silver Miller .35