FROVI,b;Ala LIBRARY- PROVINCIAL LI3?.J.3J. 113 .. c "'OIWES DRUGS. Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VOL. id ' Conoda' Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest' PH0HE81 XXXIX, NO. 47. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS siddu'Ddb fffcg - . Iot - IBrDaiDDi ' . , - r,. ' arrv On Despite lluitiun Ex position Fruinres 1J.N. Work i?rairie Train Curling Pin Saved Life 1 Ruckus In Night Club ess Of Majority Service Is Back WINNIPEG J. P! Johnson, vice president of the Western Rngion, Canadian National Rail-vays, stated in Winnipeg yesler-iay that, as a result of the con i I I Lrgin is Nw Only Bight Over Houble Tragedy Narrowly Averted in Downtown Killing Constance MeMasUrs, shot in Uie right temple bv Chines cr Parlies I oinmneu Blazing Battle Between Police And Bandits in New York Spot NEW YORK '0P01ie prW J Mah ln 8 dwntul'n ,rv J-aU'Sl ToW l-ftui-ni ltlimis.liom from H'il Uiil of (CI ) Oljjng house yesterday, Is alive to-' ,1... rvfl-'V f1nfl-in cllrill- tK.l ' hrr.lll. f.f ii i.nrli.w. fr.1.- version of coal locomotives to I bandits fight a blazing gun bat ail burning fuel, the railway is fni.li! in ibui pi from ,ln nf tle m a Greenwich Village ntoht now in a position to restore prev club early today. When.-the smoke of battle had cleared. tv Standing: 'esc, who later shot himself, 315 " " ! entered her right temple but was lous normal service between Calvary and Edmonton, ;nd between Edmonton asd Saskatoon. five persons were wounded and eiieeiea arm ran along the out- Tells of Rescue- ancl sup- side of the skull. The woman was On trains numbered 11 and 12, scores of patrons were cringing under their tables. A bandit sus oil burning locomotives will b 295 8 1 2 1 ANOTHER FOR LABOR LONDON VV. K. MacMillan today retained Western Isles, remctc Scottish coiislitueucy. for the Iabor party, raising Labor's slim working margin in the new House of Commons to ton. CLOVERLEAFS CHAMPS VANCOUVER The Dominion champion Vancouver Clov er Leafs won the Intercity basketball championship by default. The Eagle Time Club refused to play at a changed location. The teams had been tied a game apiece in the best of five series. Last night's was to have been the third game. The Eagles said they would appeal to the Canadian Association if necessary. Libera' . pect, a detective, two entertainers and a guest were Injured. operated between Saskatoon enri Edmonton, where the service was cut from six days a week to tri Police said that three hold-u? i never unconscious. After being ! shot, she ran down the stairs of jthe King George Hotel where city ambulance rushed her to , Prince Rupert General Hospital, j Dr. L. M. Greene, attending ; the woman, stated that the only All Jumped Off Bomber an- be men were captured by officers who chased a taxicab the men had commandeered. bidayi weekly. On trains 13 and 14 between Edmonton, Camro.se and Calgary the service had been cut from net today w tun- Entertainers, Jean Evol, 52 and ion in view oi Bobby Dell, 36, suffered wounds three days a week to twice a week. ,t j slim niuju" ln their legs. Paul Knlps of Ford is expected W dp f il '--I : d i 'I r Linai- lJ dnesda.V. ume sue was unconscious was Missing Mr.r, From B-36 Ciw IS8 th Peraltl' when the was tracted. Down With Others in Same ibull,,t Area N,)t much is known of the ! woman's background, but that Five crew numbers of the ; she once worked in a Chinese United Slates Army B-36 bomber. 'restaurant in Terrace and had New Jersey, a guest, was critically injured in chest and leg. James Ford of Philadelphia was wounded in the stomach and w as ar that his Lai"1 and on trains 25 and 20 bet ween Edmonton, Drumheller and Calgary, service was cut from three days a week to twice weekly. The normal service, as effective before the retrenchment, will be restored Monday, February 27. ,in in oflice des- rested. nuicrity it OD- 'we- ocen nerc nerc lor ior some some -imc. Mmc. She She The battle broke out in the: ., i.f.nrr-il wllic was abandoned after three SEVJS of the ....tors too. fire and the lH Chinese but left him Morrocan Village Club when a v meeting of the fourth went dead detective Interrupted an attempt by bandits to rob the club and v.iiue on a month auo. NORTHERNERS ARE YOUNGEST VICTORIA Newspapermen have decided- which Is the youngest member of the m Labor, which f1nt from Alaska to Texas. The woman Is allcferl ti hnvn more than 100 patrons. The de Thousands of persons from all over the world are expected this year tective was on routine patrol. Speaks For Sweepstakes .) . . , i l the House ba" 0Ul ,n Vlc durknc at 2:30 she was forc-d at gun's to visit the International ExpWition at Poau-Prce Haiti Z Ti m- 'iv's vol - lhc n,orni,)8 "I February 14 point to go to deceased's room commemorate the two hundreth anniversary f the foundW of that 'a wther' Eovern- ''lth lhcIotncr lwtlvc 1)0 were and he had demanded that dht City. The exposition features a special United Nation exhibition, iiK(-iif.fi ii. unu ii'iiiiin a viii kiniunn i -- ii . dramatizing the activities of the world organization. Above is one of the l'J4. pavilions under construction In the Haitian caplUL - i.uiu.nu h i in ii uj nun. nor reiusai. m liberal wu.s ra,Jius ' flvc mllcs wnere a" tho shoot in g occurred and" the Lrand Cro- arac',',, " The missing five, woman went scrcaminr; from, ;r "; ,s ,rw ,Micn-faii,,d to. sur-1 t,,c m- VICTORIA ti Tom Uphill, veteran Labor member for Fcr-nle, urged ln the Legislature yes The distinction goes to Frank Cakler of AUin who is tliree months younger than Jack Mc-Rac, the member for Prince Rupert. Both are 34 years of age. s nmounced to- , ,, y ,u"u "Mieu H-xlv of Frank Mah, was view- ! t reduced !-alirs , '. ,, , i'1" " '"' cd by a corm-r's jury In Ihe terday that sweepstakes for hos-Ipltals b! legal izi'd in order to h"!p meet mounting hospital Unemployment Serious Matter , in wv." -"jumii. !B.c. UiKlcrUikiVs rliain'l -arly iuii'i I.:il)or' R'i'l)('n Schcrk, jnatc of the ' tlil.s fUTinni. A .32'old miKl-1 oower is anv- Citnadiaii n.siiiiiK Co. fk.li park- i revolver was used in the tmwtv.l Lloyds Loses On Liberals costs. He said he had introduced such a resolution in 1938. It had ibeen approved unanimously but. ihulil In so pre- k'T Cape Perry, which made lhc; ' CommuniVies nothing more had been done I I VICTORIA tt Unemployment (iramaiic rescue or ten or the survivors from beaches of the west coast of Princess Royal Island. Cdr. Beard Heeding Food about it. j Uphill said there were half a million more people In British g Wins Paloce near the western end of Whale i ill British Columbia is becoming 'a problem of major proportions.; Ai tliMr J.. Tumor, C.C.F. nxmihoei for Vancouver Etisl, told the Leg- j LONDON (f - Lloyds of Lon-: ilni'V world famous firm of untTV,Titcr.s. 'has lost. 25.000 l$77..r.0O as a result of Britain's Channel, about 00 miles south of Tnllr Mnnnu Irtjiee Rupert, is back homo in IdllU riUllCy Prince Rupert and gives some 1 , . ' ir ... ' iV .,Culuuibia4iow.Jejwr. bedsjjui tata, b. C. ff.-Ten poun-fe jmorcpatients under the hospital tl'buUor were llmm Jnt0 t-i. .insurance plan. ronimiinity bt 300 on Lower Arrow ij-year-nld I3'-tl y 7 ishiliii-f yesierday. He asked fori election, ii was estimated today. iiroimil iieilon naiifl-oiil.s Hole ! For a premium of 5.000. i VICTORIA. Q dir. C B ard. Coalition member . T fo! nKuiu iiiami. i.iu.m Lakes by a light mau-ladcn on the llnrn-3rtini;liam I'hI- were now over J.io.000,000 nun further particulars of the incident to the Daily News. The Cope Perry was on the way from Huledalc to llelineiken In r l. ) . ... I. . .. l. ii..u:iii.. plane. The food, arriving yest.er- I'iilmult, luskeil the Lrgi.sla- charily. Odd. Jobs were Lure ye.-erday if British Coluin-'swors. There must, be 110 an- j i-"'.vos ioi;r o:i a unai luiuuii plaiined ! "f 30,0(10 in guaniHle-eing Lib- tht wonaereri wnai. rrie govermuen . (, wag Ule first w rcach would do when hnsmess taper, d ...... in ,..,. ,,,.. a ..ek erai pany caiiaioaics agauisi. off. ' - ' "It won't go far," said a resid- ivir. upiuii r'fiiyiaiuiui.-ini ivitiu-'f,n. bla could afford the "luxury" of work to aIlrviaU a sltiiath.n l 'nn unbalanced budget,. He suj- which could not be solved under Rested a cut in expciulitures so I-" aijllallsl. syxlm. In said. I Turner charged British Cohmibii I ,as not U load future Rr,,,.,,,. .lions with leb(s. He did not 'lu 'wnslslently avtrtdiug" its j ' Ihlereslcd ill 1 1 was eva'-u-' daring Hie war." lam dclighled Ik palaep, IjiiI I k.ie lloiiic." "'I's Piper, .said: brrau.se o the Jit rrecived at a me speaker but. saw in h-r ele- This rli,imlunity, wlUl ieer vallon a tendency to relegate ; Drt ..,, u,rt.,i i,0 - loss of their deposits. Lloyds insured the Liberals against loss of deposits after the first lit I y up to 250. At the end of last night's counting the Liberals had lost 314 deposits. let to pick up a load of herring j ! for delivery to Vancouver and ! was keeping a lookout as wrre nl' 1 vessels passing aioim the coasl. A wisj) of smoke w'as iightvl among the trees and the Capl. ; Perry moved alongside to In- men to the background. I i - prophesy u deficit on the biul-j J' s"",-s,u"":" " "T.aMiing ions-. j isolated since warm weathei broke on the lake, making it im ,' possible to deliver by sleigli on get, however. to lhc povrrnmnil tm Jow rcuUi! At the .same time Cdr. 13';u-d! ?'i the job. 'i wi ll - wubNidir.s nm.sl, be trrjik'tl the ice. The villagers are low on 'staples and cattle and poultry askid for more .spciulin-j ; ui ii'i - i 1 uorvii'd kviudii'Iic J Minister Bill io Clean Up Milk Supply CANADIAN GIRL IS U. S. GUEST OF HONOR Newfoundland paralysis victim, i food. highways, expansion of rural j c.c.r. mrmimii lnarelietl Int. eiectniiciiion by the Briusn lhe t:hambcr weuring red roses I n! J Columbia Power Commission. in u.eir iaieis to murk the vietorv I IC yifQCOfl mnlry I j vest luatc further. This led to the 'picking up of the first two men. II, ill a mile further along a third ilium was picked up. Sighting of a smoke signal a short dl.stunce I furl her along led In a group c ! seven men. None of the three groups was aware of the pii.si iicr-of the others at that time. I The rescue wu.s effected bo-llween 12:30 and 2 p.m. on Wed VICTORIA - Minister of Agri - jof the Labor party in the British election. culture Hurry Bowman, in the Legislature yesterday, Introduced amendments U the Milk Act which would stop farmers with P Third Kmnid) KUMONTOM (P - Defence Minister Brooke Claxton today an-jDouneed that, lessons learned I from Kxercise Sweetbrlar would I result in a number of modifieu-j t ions to army and air force unsanitary bains from shipping Strangling Of Christianity ROMB-Fi-cd Bjiurks. respondent from the Plane Crashes On Oolsa Lake milk for human consumption. It Rate Finding On Wednesday OITAWA '(Pi T'he Board of Transport Commissioners final decision on the railway's application for a 20 percent boost in rreighl.ral.es will be handed down next Wednesday, March 1, it was learned today. The board was instructed earlier this month by the Supreme Court of Canada to fen i Mikiic. 1, sieti- W Division A) ciio would provide for inspectors who Marion llawco, 9. Is shown as she was greeted by a four-man honor guard on her arrival in Washington. Along with Mrs Kleanor Roosevelt, the child was an honored guest of a U.S. department of defence radio program. Marion, stricken with polio two years ago, was sent to Warm Springs, Georgia, for treatment by a fund-raising campaign by U.6. personnel at the Newfoundland air base. WRONG GAME SOUTH BENFLEET, Essex, Eng. (Pi Arthur Sparks, 15. released a swan from a rabbit trap on Canvey Island here. equipment. "Success of the exercise," the minister said, was due to hard a could force dairymen to clean up where the-Act and its standards nesday Fibiuray, 15, the day after the disaster. The Cape Perry was as close to the beach as poslhle and then sent a life boat ashore. "They wen cold and hungry and soaking wet," said Mr. Schcrk in describing the condi formaii 1 BURNS LAKE Jlinniie Mor- ! training, good planning and close arc being violated. Can of (X)lsa Lake .narrowly co-operation between army and Met 2 ei ul the Smith Stairs, has returned from a visit to Ym;o Slavlu. He was there for ten weeks. He calls Tito a dictator and says Christianity is on escuped death when obliged to air force oliicers and men THE WEATHER make a crush landing on Oolsa 'Ill Rovers II tion of the men, but seemed to 1 review its urevious decision to SVMOIISIN trial in Yugoslavia, lie reports t Lake in Tweer'Miiuir Park. Fnrt-a priest beaten to death by j inialcly he was not. injured nnd Rain was falling this morning j grant the railways partial relief Mr.. Claxton said that anyone who had seen Exercise Swcetbriar would have reason to be proud of the way Uie job had been done by 5500 American and Canadian forces in army and air force. wtiek TliLstic 2 uHcrlng no serious after-Jute games not lcf fc( ,s otherwise." With no food ( Cup uami'Ki .Mippllcs they hud been huddled drunken youtln. Nuns have been the plane was not greatly d;un- eight percent. rvicted from a convent. Child-1 aired. He recently returned from rcn are taught to chant "there Is i Vancouver with this plane which r tnglish League ' &nKsidc their fires awaiting "ivisiosi assistance. Tlicy were clothed in 1. West, ttr TODAY'S STOCKS (Courtesj 3. IX Johustou Co Ltd ! no God." Churches are not beln? 'he purchased In partnership with j ' closed for lids, Tito thinks, ; Ernie Harrison of Wistaria, fori A. Mackenzie, who has mining might mean a national bill.. It the pii'msc of himtliv: wolves interests at Dorcetl in the Skeena is planned, instead, to strangle which are bee.jming a scourge Valley, is sailing by the Chllcot In Christianity slowly. ' liu this district. tomo'rrow night ior Vancouver. - "IVIUWIUII Sunderland 1 heavy Arctic, apparel which became very wet. The men had landed as far Inland as three miles aud had over most oi southern British Columbia as a slow moving disturbance off the Washington coast moved inland. Skies arc mostly clear in the northern sections of the province and only a few showers are expected in these districts during the day. Little change in the weather patlsru is expected in the northern and central districts over the weekend while slow clearing should take place in the southern sec I tramped out to the beach. Oni;- Vancouver sciial 1 lone man had landed, on the1 ke City 2 beach in the parachute jumping Un 2 n,ll from nn nlllltirln i,r .srino feet. .04 9.25 .03 JD6 Bayonne , Bralornc B. R. Con '. B. R. X 1 It dark when the i, . , was pitch "y 1. Cheu.... i : i . i . h ! i jumps were uiuue auu niu uiw Livcrnnnl i ,u, ,,. &,., u,, ,,.i,ro tho tions Sunday. Forecast v in, l. ixiiivv l-AClljllJf iiiv. i UV'l ft n , " . uurniey o ship was except that they were " Ulriningham Ci- over land. "They had no Idea North Coast Region -,- Cloudy with scattered showers today and Cariboo Quarts 1.42 Congress New 24 Hedley Mascot 20 Pacific Eastern 05 Pioneer 3.30 Premier Border 03 's Privateer - 13'2 Reeves McDonald 2.00 (Where the eventual crash of the ul. 1 wanderers 4. 1 plane may have been," Mr. 1 i C5..1 l- , , Sunday. Winds light. Continuing mild. Lows tonight and highs Sunday At Port Hardy, spit and Prince Rupert, 34 and 45. . h leatuM .e.K reporus. jV(TS About two-and-a-half or three 2 r oansea hours after they had been plckej Reno 03 .. :- . art. -JUL. !.i-vrs.a 1.13 i I 'Teston North. wi ' Beattie .. .59 Bcvcourt - 4 .30 ... Bobjo , .12 Buffalo Canadian .08 Consol. Smelters 96.00 Cnnwest 1.12 Donalds .55 Eldona .29 East Sidlivan G.10 Giant Yellowknife 6.10 Clod's LakD ., , .31 Ifardroek .34 Harricanu .05'4 Heva .06 Hoseo 08'! Jacknife .07 Juliet Quebec M Lake Rowan ...J?y'a Lapaskti -'...04. Little Long Lac h'i Lynx ,16'.Z Madsen Red Lake 3.00 McKen.ie Red Lako ...... . ..54 McLeod Cot'kshutt 2.9i Moneta 35 Negus '1.50 Noranda , 70.00 Louvlcourt 16'i Pickle Crow .; 1.88 .t... Kegcourt 01 San Antonio '. 3.80 Senator Rotiyn ' 2T$ Sherrit Gordon i- 2.24 . Steep Rock 2.42 Sturgeon River .21 . SUver Miller ;-'.?; Upper Canada ' 3.23 '; try City o . Vs West .37 .12 .00 .03 3.95 (to ' Okanagan Lillotx l South Thompson' Region -Intermittent rain today. Cloudy w iti .scat tered shiiwesr Sunday morning. Sunny during the afternoon with a few clouds Sunday evening. Continuing mild. Winds light. lows tonight and highs Sunday- At Pen-ticton and Kamloops, 34 and 45. f S.,j' up, the ten men were turned over to the United Slates Coastguard cutter White Holly which Inter transferred tiicm to aircraft on which they were flowh on to Fort Worth, TexMS. The Cape Perry did not come in contact with two other Injured survivors who were later He on il'UtWSp:iru , VtVi, iwW Sheep Creek Silbak Premier Vauanda .Salmon Gold Spud Valley Oils-Anglo Canadian A. P. Con Atlantic. Caliiiont C. & E. .. Central Leduc ,. Home Oil ... Mercury , i Lytton 38 and 40. j Koolenuy North Thompson I Regions Cloudy today and Sunday. Intermittent snow and rain '.'' u'tuiiTown 2 Jlc ShcHMd iOrims. U,)U 4, 8ou..h. picked up by shore searchers. After the rescue, the Cape Prrrjr proceeded on litr way to Vancouver. There the vessel Is now tied up. Mr. Schcrk returned wwiwwetiifl"ni'i''Wiiwt;ijuijjwp mixtd this morning Koolenuy region, changing to Intermittent 72 1.42 .48 7.10 1.10 11.00 .IO1 1 80 4.35 3.48 .06 9.25 .09 .12 Vi (te his home here on Wednesday. I Harry Mcnzirs .jr., another nicni-I her of the crew, will be back ncxl week. Others of Uie crew were; L TlDFc rain this uitenioon and evening. Intermittent rain overnight with occasional showers Sunday. A little milder. Winds light. Lows tonight and highs Sunday At OK-rII PiieUic. Pete Princess Royal Canadian .... Royalite Toronto Athona Aumaque TRAINING CRUISER The 8.0()0-ton cruiser Out n io is being used by the Roynl Canadian Navy to train recruits and naval reservists. Three Prince Rupert men. Edward Dawes, Archie McLcod aud E Ncllson, lfft last night to join Ontario for a cruise. Built at Belfast und launched as H.M.S. Minotaur in 1943 for the Royal Navy, Ontario was -transferred to the R.C.N, in 1945. She mounts nine six-inch guns, eight four-inch anti-aircraft guns and six torpedo tubes. This is a recentR.C. N photo of the cruiser, which has a peacetime complement of 730 officers and men. The Ontario has a top speed of nearly 32 knots, is 155V2 feet long and has a 63-foot beam. C. P. Photo) Capl. Vance King,. Scotty Van ID 21:54 !" 1('et Home of Victoria and Edwin Cranbrook, 33 and 40, Crescent j Valley, 35 and 43; Rcvelstoke, 31 and 43. 1:09 ir f "Pt Johnson of Vancouver. Both 15;22 11 fp"t Van Home and Johnson formerly i Icet lived in Prince Rupert.