i PROVlNciAlTi NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUUBIA'g NEWSPAPER Prompt Service DRUGS PHONE At All Hours ORMES Daily Delivery Wm mam PHONE 81 Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" STAR V CABS ' VOL. XXXVII, No. 121. ( PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. , SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS tractive Young . Womaifi Cruelly Murdcre Vancouver District IC CAMPAIGN PRECEDES NG IN NEWFOUNDLAND Being Scoured For CELANESE CO. 1 BUYS LUMBER, ORDERS STEEL Columbia Celanese Corpora-lion is reported to have pur I fi? il fjOJIX'S, Nfld., (CP) It is doubtful if any issue has L) the Newfoundland people as the one on which Last votes in the June 3 referendum. I.cians advocating four different forms of govern-fco hwn nulling at the electorate for months and cam '-'r k - ' ' :. ' I 'ft ' ; - ; J , . chased a large amount of lumber at. Terrace which is to be s' . . I .1 1 . 1 ! 1 - Husband of Waitress VANCOUVER (CP) Hammer and tourniquet slaying of slender Mrs. Joanna Baker, aged 30, today launched police on a manhunt throughout the entire Lower Mainland for her 31-year-old husband, Percy. The attractive mother of three children was found by radio, newspaper ana pampniet m oecoming moved to Port Edward for forms the voting date ap- for concrete pouring. The ma terial is to be trucked from Terrace and the trucks on their 0niy three forms of t will appear on the Since this Issue Is not being voted on, the party intends to seek economic union after or if Newfoundland regains the responsible government it lost in 1934. The main fight In the cam eastward trip will carry water pipe to be used in connection :sent commission gov- dead last night in a blood-saturated bed. Her head $ 1 with Installation of the water responsible govern-confederation with had been bashed in with a nam- system at the Interior village. mer. Her tnroat was garroieu with a silk stocking twisted by The Cellulose Comany also Is paign has been between the Confederates and the Respons a hammer handle. Envoy Had Firearms Mrs. Baker was a waitress and ible Government League, re reported to have let a contract to the Dominion Bridge Co. for 5,000 tons of structural steel to be used in building the mill at ther group has ln-lf into the general Headed by Chesley , it calls itself the union" party and such a union with COL. RALSTON worked at nights. ferred to often as. simply the Anti-Confederates. Both sides The young woman had been dead several hours when the Port Edward. have able leaders. bodv was found at 10 o'clock M States. I'NION ADVOCATES last night at the suburban home Heading the Confederates are F. Gordon Bradley, one-time In Burnaby. Clerk In Argentine Embassy At Ottawa Is Under Arrest OTTAWA W Enrique Lades-ma, 28-year-old office clerk In the Argentine embassy, has been charged with being In illerfil chairman of the national con American Envoy to Jerusalem Injured WASHINGTON, D.C., American Consul-General Thomas Col. Ralston Passes Away Former Prominent Federal Cabinet Minister Dies In Montreal hlehem vention and Joseph Smallwood Baker was unemployed and was in ill-health. The children Vivian, 7; Jackie, 6, and Bonnie, 5 dis ft iwo nffn.lvs firearms Wasson was seriously Injured in v, , , . ,' covered the body. tie Centre Jerusalem today, it was reported by State Department officials. the convention's most outspoken advocate of union. The two were, respectively, chairman and secretary of the seven-man delegation that visited Ottawa to discuss terms of Confederation. When the national convention turned down a motion that Confederation be recommended as a possible future form of gov telephone calls led to his arrest. When the county bailiff seized his sedan to meet a $219 telephone debt, he found a sub MONTREAL tt Col. J. L. Ralston, former member of the Circumstances of the injury are not yet available. It of Egyptian and Wets Haifa Air THOMAS DEWEY WINS OREGON federal cabinet, died at his home here today. lumber machine gun with 400 rounds of ammunition. Col. Ralston, who was sixty-six It is also reported that Lades- (P El Essas news-today that a mobile CLUB WOMEN COMING HERE years of age, died in his sleep during the night. ma attempted to make a tele PORTLAND Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York Egyptian forces had phone call to Moscow. Former minister of finance Bethlehem, five miles Police discount reports of any ran an easy length ahead ot ernment commission and responsible government were recommendedBradley and Small-wood went to work. They gathered signatures from all over connection of Ladesma with an ' Harold E. Stassen today In tabu- and wartime minister of national defence. Col. Ralston's greatest Nineteen outstanding Ameri- Jerusalem, where the ip ian Arab Legion is jjM.OOO Jews. The news- : , lation of Oregon's Republican r,rn.inpnrp ame when can women, after attending a com""1&c lu,&- the Island for a petition asking he disaereed with the govern- j convention of the General Ped- irl that the force had the British government to place m.nc. rnHrv nn riisnatch over- cration of Women's Clubs in presidential primary count but whether he had finally taken the measure of his Minnesota rival still rested In a late count A REAL LEGIONNAIRE! Dressed in Legion blazer and beret His Excellency Viscount Alexander will officially open the Canadian Legion Dominion Convention at Saskatoon tomorrow night. The Grand Patron of the Legion will deliver an address to more than 1,000 Legionnaires from all parts of Canada, who are meeting for a four-day convention. City School Children Observe Empire Day tvitli Dual Meet MUNICIPAL CHAPTER, I.OD.E, SPONSOR ANNUAL PATRIOTIC RALLIES AT CAPITOL THEATRE Students cf the city's elementary and high schools Friday afternoon attended two Empire Day programs in the Capitol Theatre under sponsorship of Municipal Chapter, I. O.D.E., hearing speakers emphasize the value of the British Empire and Commonwealth in a troubled world and taking ,.011-nr, trrnns whirh he 1 Portland, will be in Prince Ru Halibut Sales Confederation on the ballot. Their campaign was successful. favored If aboard the steamer Prin- Finally he resigned and was ' cess Louise June 4 heading north succeeded by Gen. A. G. L. Mc- tor a round trip to Alaska. They which is yet to come. Returns from 951 of 1.861 prescients gave Canadian Dollina, 17,000, ' 20e, 19c and Peter Cashln, another member and one-time finance minister In the old re the New York governor 41,488 20c, 19c and Stassen, 35,506. 10s, Storage. Invercan V, 20,000 Naughton. "Clc 7?' sponsible Kovernment days, is the chief spokesman for the and 10c, Booth. Prosperity A., 23,000, 20c, 19c Anti-Confederates. He Is also t almost 40 miles irom life to the town of Christ's In 48 hours. The paper C.sclose the size of the liis make-up. I She from Haifa, Israel, iported from a British Jut Egyptian planes had fa British air field at ).ivid, 35 miles east of jie British said that were sent up against Alters and shot down i'ta transports which 4r-g used by the and 10c, Pacific. a stern critic of commission gov ernment. Depends On United States forestry service, who will accompany them north as official guide. Having been advised of the visit here of the women by Mrs. Doris M. Barnes, former mayor nf WfrartCToH anH nnur a ronrac- BUSY MONTH IN POLIICE COURT part in a patriotic program. Cashln's chief point is that the British government promised to restore self-government First of the two programs was Chairman of both gatherings Water Power was Mrs. E. W. Becker, educa City police court had a busy'entatWe Q Territ Qf A1. month in April with 82 cases for children of the five elementary schools. Lasting more than an hour, it consisted of a program of student presentations tional secretary of Municipal Chapter. ' once Newfoundland wis again self-supporting. He says that stage has been reached and that constitutionally Newfoundland VICTORIA '?; Establishment of a huee .aluminum plant in aska to Washington, Mayor Nora Arnold is making arrangements to welcome the visitors here. The party will include Mr. and Mitkof, 6,000, 20c, 10c, Bacon. Pauline, 14,000,- Co-op. Oslo, 15,000, Co-op. Anchor A., 11,008, Co-op. Mae West, 18,000, Co-op. Cape Sun, 3,500, t!o-op. Kyrielle, 17,000, Co-op. Dovre B., 37,000, Co-op. North Camp, 6,000, Co-op. Larry H., 12,000, Co-op. Parma, 22,000, Co-op. Wales Island, 15.000, Co-op. Borgund, 7,500, Co-op. Kaien, 10,500, Co-op. ; Fredelia, 18,500, Co-op. Gustav, 19,000, Co-op. and talks by Mrs. Jens Munthe, f British Columbia depends upon being tried by Magistrate W. D. Vance, according to the monthly report considered by the civic police committee Friday. Eighty-one convictions and one committal for trial in a higher court Is entitled to responsible government without any vote to Municipal Regent and Rev. Basil S. Prockter. This was followed water power potentialities, top executives of the Aluminum r RITES FOR In her address, Mrs. Munthe described Empire Day as the "most Important for us all." ''On this day, as members of the Empire, we proudly remember the great heritage that is ours," she declared. "It is a privilege, and It Is with pride decide the matter. On the other hand, the Con- Mrs. Norman F. Plouff, Dexter, Maine; Mrs. Charles L. Fuller, Brockton, Mass; Mrs. Edwin Tro- Company of Canada Ltd. said by the High School program, main feature of which was an address by Mayor Nora E. Ar fARD LIPSETT Ineral of Edward Lipsett Friday night. R. E. Po.well, president, and McNeely DuBose, vice-president of the eastern cor nold. Thursday in Vancou- tity where he spent so poration, conferred with cabinet ministers and discussed develop his long and successful Bulletins federates claim that it would be resulted. to Newfoundland's financial ad-1 Fine revenue totalled $1,380 vantage to join Canada. They wltn an additional $97 in court point often to Canada's baby cosis Bulk of the charges were bonuses and contrast living jaj,j under various sections of standards in the two countries. lne Indian Act dealing with The whole history of the nqUOr.' Ten persons were con-union-with-Canada movements victed of supplying liquor to In-has been fraught with bitterness dians. and suspicion. Newfoundland-j ln one criminal Code comers considered the financial Dlant which was committed for ment of water power sources d Mrs. Linsett were that we commemorate this occasion. It is our hope that you, as sons and daughters of the Empire, may always find the inspiration to carry on with dignity and honor its fine traditions." Rev. Basil S. Prockter deliv fin Cambridgeport, near along the Central British Columbia coast. In a statement Mr. Powell said RAILWAY CHIEF PAYS TRIBUTE END . PALESTINE WAR LONDON Diplomatic sources reported today that a new and r. in Massachusetts. f ' city has long been I the dccD sea fisheries. MONTREAL A message from liver dailv. in a sketch Herms Canada offered at Con- that investigations were being conducted to "determine if prospects justify preliminary studies which alone will cost important move would be made j a higher court, a conviction was land, Maiden, Mass; Miss Ethel Larson, Manistee, Michigan; Mrs. Maude R. Harrison, St. Louis; Miss Ruth H. Nowell, York Village, Maine; Mrs. Avis H. Caston, Kezar Falls, Maine; Mrs. William A. Mansfield, West Som-erville, Mass; Mrs. Waldo Litchfield, North Svituate, Mass; Mrs. Bert A. MacKenzie, Orono, Maine; Mrs. Thomas LI Porter, Worcester, Mass; Miss Minnie Porter Harris, Key West, Florida; Mrs. Bert Dubois, Liberal, Kansas; Mrs. William l. Lawrence, Brooklyn; Dr. Maud Gomel and Dr. Laurence Butcher, Champaign, 111; Mrs. William R. Wallace, Chester, South Carolina; Mrs. Jacob J. Butler, Thompson, Conn; Mrs. Harry K. Gardiner, Marblehead, Mass. R. C. Vaughan, chairman and obtained on a morals charge ered his address in the form of an allegory which brought out the right of all people, particularly minorities, to enjoy free fLipsett's career, says federation talks in 1895 as nig-&: in life hp was a sail- 1 Rardly and Canada's opposition president of Canadian National Monetary losses from Criminal to the free entry of Newiouna- Railways, says: -d his first job in B.C Code complaints during the land fish into the United States month totalled $515, of which dom. He pictured to the children, a land of "little people," $1,000,000 and take two years." The province has no bauxite nor any other important raw materials required in the manufacture of aluminum but it does ''Canada has lost a statesman, a great citizen-solder and a leader of the bar ln the death of didn't help matters, uesioes was reCovered by the police. that, Canada refused to grant Col. J. L. Ralston. In the early stages of the last war I, as have enough undeveloped water Newfoundland a loan and she had to go' to Britain for it. ISSCE IN 1869 Even before that ,in 1869, a PROMOTED AND TRANSFERRED Promoted to the rank of corporal, announcement Is made at divisional headquarters of the pro-Confederation government had been badlv beaten at the shortly within the United Nations to end warfare in Palestine. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Lewis Douglas, I'ni- ' ted States ambassador, talked over the situation today after American consultations in Washington. BABY SELLING RING ST. JOHN, N. B. Deputy Police Chief M. P. F. Biddis-combc Friday confirmed that a ring selling babies for adoption was operating in- Saint John and said it was international in scope. Babies, it is stated, were being sold in New York and Jersey. Reports of tiie ring came to attention of police more than a year ago when an unnamed mother wanted her child back after having offered it to the ring. tiny folk who were discovered by children and who, because of thir size, were treated in the manner of dolls by the youngsters. He carried the picture further into real life by comparing this to the days of colonization, when native inhabitants, 'often aboriginal, were treated ln somewhat similar manner by the stronger races. This idea, he said, was outmoded and now all people regardless of their strength, should have the right to enjoy polls. ' I Pro-Confederation sentiment i power lor the estaonsnmeni 01 plant similar to the one the company operates at Arvida on Quebec's Saguenay River. British Columbia has three luch power sources, each with about one - million gross horsepower. They are: Chilco-Taseko with a possible development at the head of Bute Inlet. FISHERMAN nrovlnclal Dolicc here of the piikc a set of sails for I Harvey Copps' sealing I Vaneouver Belle which !1 widely known when the Russians in the t - t WEATHER I Synopsis I is no indication of any n the weather through-province over the week-I the southern coastal warm weather is gen-t along the noi th coast h.ain overcast and will I ' in the interior re-Pi'tlculaiiy in the south-Sons. I Forecast probably is greatest in tne chairman of the Defence Pur-i chasing Board, from which sprang the Munitions and Supply Deartment of the Dominion Government, had the good fortune to be closely associated with Col. Ralston, first in his caacity of Minister of Finance and later as Minister of National Defence. He never spared himself and his advice and counsel were always available both by day and night. I doubt if any man worked harder than he did. Throughout his public career Col. Ralston had a keen appreciation of the value of railway transfer from Ocean tans 10 Fernie of Constable J. M. Hicks who has been in charge of the radio branch of police work out PASSES AWAY John Hansen, a .Norwegian-born fisherman whose age was 61, died in hospital here this morning. He is survived by a brother, Hans Hansen, 940 Second Avenue. Deceased had been in hospital since May 11. He was single. of the paper town. At Fernie Corp. Hicks will be non-commissioned officer in charge of the district. He is being replaced at Ocean Falls by Constable L. Adams from -Victoria. southwestern part of the lsiano, that section closest to Nova Scotia. There has been little said openly in favor of commission government, but many feel it has done an able Job and that it might be best to stick with it for another five years. John B. McEvoy, last of the three convention chairmen, declared recently that he wished to keeD the issues clear. Eutsum-Kimsquit at the head of Dean Channel, Taktsa-Kemano- at the head of Gardner Canal. ' A similar plant to the $300,-000,000 Arvida plant would mean the employment of several thousand workers with a city of 20,, 000. TUGBOAT SKIPPER IS TOP GOLFER their lives under the principles of democracy. The program concluded with the singing of the anthem "Land of Our Birth"' and "Land of Hope and Glory" by children from all the schools under direction of Principal J. S. Wilson of Borden Street; a medley of Empire songs by the King' Ed 1 Rupert, Queen Char- transportation ln peace and In war, and ln no section of our natinnal Ufa will Vi1fi rtacclnfr Via WHITE 'CRUISER'S' SECOND VOYAGE Pa North Coast Over I " "... .-- 1'" d more deeply regretted. l ugiu ram or i With this in mind he went to VANCOUVER BOY FAST VANCOUVER, P Wally Alexander of John Oliver High School featured a High School nrm . t opinion of slip m , on "mas . Boston to get the Judge Manley O. Hudson 01 tne ; flange m wropera-Ps tonight and highs LOCAL TIDES Sunday, May 23, 1948 ward School Choir, accompanied by Miss Mardel Soiland; ryhthm band selections by the Annunci MONTREAL The white-hulled Canadian National steamships "Canadian Cruiser" , will begin her second season of service from this port when she sailed today for the British West Indies with a full complement h rort Hardy 48 and r'lt 44 anrt fis Tvin International Court 01 jusuce on the question of economic union with the United States. Judee Hudson said in a mem- f8 and 58. High 0:06 22.0 feet 14:05 19.3 feet Low 7:45 1.3 feet 19:44 88 feet , Va rwtccthilitleS last June. Today marks her eleventh voyage to. the West Indies. Bound for British Guiana she will touch at Bermuda, St. Kits, Angigua, Montserrat, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad enroute. The "Cruiser" Is carrying a full cargo of Canadian products including fish, cheese, ggs,.meatA canned gootlsi newfipriAt; feeds and some automobiles. a capacity ?r. "r.rr;;;;mPlv'of passengers and track and field meet here Friday when he came within one-tenth of a second of equalling Fercy Williams' record for the 220-yard dash. He ran the distance' in 22.1 seconds against the 1928 mark of 22 seconds flat. John Oliver School won the pAPER MONDAY VANCOUVER, Lyle Hursch-man, 27-year, old tugboat skipper, paced 32 qualifiers yesterday ln the championship flight of the British Columbia amateur golf tournament. He posted one under par of 143. The runner-up was Bill Mawhlnncy who also won the, junior title, carding an even par of 144. 01 uca u. I The liner Is under corn- cargo. remote and that the U.S. wouiaB nan,tn M rvvtarn of Captain M. OHara, not put a dent in her close rela-hand ation School rhythm band; a group of songs by the Conrad Street School choir, directed by Miss Urquhart; 'Drill of the Pixie Army" by the Borden Street School; "This Canada of Ours'' by . the Borden Street School choir accompanied by (Continued on Page 3) tions with Canada ana nuuu , p. being Victoria Day PjWic holiday, the Daily P "ot be published. The par issue will appear Built in Montreal, the "Cruiser" . POTENT GEMS Emeralds were once believed to be beneficial to the eyes and amethysts wer thought to pre vent drunkenness. by doing anything ln regard to two meet for the third consecutive year. Newfuondland that these was launched in 1946 and made her first voyage from this port "'wrnoon. nations might object to.