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"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
80.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
MONDAY,
APRIL
5,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
.
LOCAL
TIDES
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Tuesday,
April
6
High
11:50
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5:59
18:10
BURG
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5.4
feet
0f
West
v
up"M
wvlvania
remained
deserts
V,a
3
,ns
walk-out
of
the
Workers
of
Am-
Bootlegging,
Illegal
Drinking,
at
.
Labor
Progressive
Party
Alleged
'SURPRISE''
SEQUEL
TO
AFFAIR
IN
MONTREAL-FIFTY-SIX,
INCLUDING
NINETEEN
WOMEN,
ARE
ARRESTED
MONTREAL,
(CP)
A
"party
to
help
the
labor
press,"
sponsored
by
the
Labor-Progressive
Party,
ended
with
an
unexpected
"surprise"
Saturday
night
when
56
participants,
including
19
women,
were
arrested
in
a
raid
by
the
Quebec
wwvyw
its
fourth
week
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the
silent
mines
are
TRAFFIC
IS
MOVING
BRITAIN,
UNITED
STATES
AGREE
TO
TALKS
WITH
SOVIET
AUTHORITIES
the
Steel
i.'ompaiui:
liquor
police-
.
'
Pierre
Gelina,
editor
of
Le
Combat,
Montreal
leftist
puper,
banned
in
Quebec
by
the
provincial
padlock
law
but
Uniteii
States
rie
&
Laughlin
which
blast
urnace
opera-,
to
lull
capacity
here
lance
that
the
coal
night
last
only
a
few
survey
today
yielded
major
United
0
any
FOOD
TRAINS
GETTING
THRU
'
'
being
published
in
Toronto,
and
w
t
t
I
Daniel
Durocher
were
charged
tars
bituminous
mines
with
selling
liquor
illegally.
Others
were
charged
with
frequenting
an
illegal
bar.
Plainclothes
officers,
it
Is
said,
lories
Win
In
Britain
LONDON,
P)
Conservatives
visited
the
party
and
bought
such
as
those
in
ine
;ng
states
of
Pennsyl-it
Virginia
and
Ken-
,n
claims
400.000
min-jie
United
States.
drinks
before
the
raid.
"MnRpnuf
and
Rplurnrlp
nrnna-
claimed
an
overwhelming
i
victory
ganda,,
,s
ga,d
have
been
today,
mostly
at
the
expense
of
BOTH
SIDES
REAFFIRM
THEIR
DETERMINATION
TO
STAND
PAT
BERLIN
The
crisis
over
movement
of
western
power
trains
to
and
from
Berlin
through
Russia-occupied
zone
appears
to
be
much
relieved.
Supplies
are
again
moving
freely
by
train
and
the
emergency
air
service
which
had
been
instituted
by
the
Americans
has
been
withdrawn.
Guards
have
been
removed
by
the
United
States
authorities
from
the
building
in
the
Am-
UNiSTS
ARE
it
tit
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s.
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.
,
,
li
n,ira
i
;.a--------
found
in
a
brief
case
carried
by
:
Gelina.
IalexandriaIs
terror-stricken
i
the
Labor
party,
in
Saturday's
municipal
elections.
Amended
unofficial
returns,
party
headquarters
said,
showed
the
Conservatives
had
won
138
'
council
seals
and
lost
19.
N
OP
IN
IA
SHOW
The
trend
to
the
right,
first
ALEXANDRIA
(Pi
Twpntv
Four
thousand
evident
in
English
and
Welsh
persons
were
killed
and
at
least
ke
up
a
Communist
municipal
elections
last
fall,
cdst
20
hurt
t
oday
as
Egyptian
troops
!
erlcan
zone
which
is
used
by
the
.
Russians
as
railway
idii
nen
ye-.iercay
me
socialists
iuu
seais
on
rural
lought
striking
Dollce
and
civil-
14
.vv
.f
,
-'jlrw;:.-,ji
our.-d
to
surge
overland
urban
district
councils.
Con-
ian
mobs
in
the
streets
of
Alex-
-lav
territory
but
were
servative
tabulators
reported,
landrla.
The
dead
Include
seven
Italian
soldiers.
The
Labor
Party,
which
made
i
policemen.
Mob
terror
Is
said
to
no
tabulations
on
Saturday's
1
be
gripping
the
entire
city
which
British
authorities
today
accepted
a
Russian
offer
to
talk
over
the
Allied
deadlock
resulting
from
Russian
restrictions
on
CALENDAR
BLANK
votine.
declined
to
comment
lm-,
is
the
second
lareest
in
Ervnt.
0
Fultcn
qualified
mediately.
A
spokesman
promig-iThree
thousand
policemen.
Alex-
iitional
pair
of
white
ed
a
statement
after
complete
anaria
s
entire
force,
walked
out
iem,ntli!y
trial-set-
returns
had
been
analyzed.
itnis
morning,
demanding
high
railroad
traffic
to
and
from
Berlin.
They
suggested
a
full
four-power
meeting.
The
United
States
had
previously
accepted
the
Russian,
pro
The
votine
to
fill
3,062
seats
in
,er
wages
and
working
conditions
n
of
County
Court
Hundreds
of
police
are
also
on
N'
I-jt
J
vJlw
-
were
more
than
500
dsitrcits
will
continue
through
Tuesday.
.ng.
No
cases
:cr
hearing.
strike
in
Cairo,
protesting
at
pro-Dosed
transfer
of
somp
officers
posal
for
discussion
of
these
restrictions.
'
to
villages
and
asking
for
more
Controls
on
traffic
through
the
!,MT
FI'DERALPOLICYr
Soviet
occupation
zone
had
for-
4eM
BimpeEskm
-of
Allied
military
rail
traffic
between
Berlin
and
western
occupation
zones.
The
Russians
wanted
to
board
and
Inspect
such
trains
but
the
western
powers
refused
to
let
them.
Even
last
night
United
States
authorities
reaffirmed
that
the
LOGGERS
OUT
FOR
MORE
PAY
VANCOUVER,
0i
Officials
of
the
British
Columbia
district
of
the
International
Woodworkers
of
America
(CIO)
on
Sunday
announced
that
the
union
would
seek
wage
increases
of
35c
per
hour
across
the
board
and
full
stooping.
Support
for
the
new
profession
of
industrial
designs
comes
from
Rt
Hon.
C.
D'.
Howe,
minister
of
trade
and
commerce.
In
opening
an
exhibition
devoted
to
Industrial
Design
in
Canada
he
said:
"This
exhibition
squarely
poses
the
question
of
the
place
of
the
designer
in
Canadian
industry."
Mr.
Howe
is
shown
examining
a
mantel
radio
designed
and
produced
in
Montreal.
Lower
left
is
an
original
Canadian
design
which
caters
to
the
busy
executive.
It
is
a
combined
brief
case
and
traveller's
bag,
designed
and
produced
in
Ottawa.
The
desk
lamp
shown
is
used
by
Miss
Janet
Hardy
of
the
National
Gallery;
it
combines
utility
and
simple
pleasing
design,
based
on
the
minimum
number
of
construction
parts
needed
for
its
all
steel
manufacture.
DESIGN
FOR
USE
The
National
Gallery
at
Ottawa
has
established
an
Industrial
Design
Information
Services
to
promote
wificr
use
of
Canadian
talent
in
the
design
of
manufactured
products
for
everyday
needs.
The
modern
stoves
being
demonstrated
by
Tom
Farley,
Ottawa
student,
to
Bud
Glunz
and
Miss
Norma
Young,
government
employees,
are
models
for
improved
design
in
electric
ranges
done
as
part
of
practical
project
by
third
years
architectural
students
at
University
of
Toronto
in
co-operation
with
an
important
electrical
manufacur-ing
company
of
Ontario.
The
new
design
arises
out
of
complaints
irom
housewives
and
is
leading
to
a
higher
oven
with
window
door
to
allow
view
of
cooking
without
opening
door,
or
United
States
Army
would
never
agree
to
Russian
inspection
of
trains,
while
the
Russians
said
the
restrictions
would
not
be
Regularly
scheduled
passenger
7.-
:
J
iy
NJ
j
union
shop
In
bargaining
for
a
1948
contract
with
British
Columbia
lumber
and
logging
operators.
The
present
contract
ex
trains
were
still
suspended
today
but
Allied
freight
trains
with
food
were
getting
through
to
Berlin.
British
Transport
and
Russian
Fighter
Collide
Over
Berlin;
Serious
View
Taken
of
Incident
A
special
train
of
Lt.
Gen.
Sir
vi
mi
,
i
iiu
L
J
t"ii
i
t
pires
June
20.
The
union,
which
claims
35,000
members,
gained
a
15-cent
an
hour
wage
increase
in
1946
after
a
36-day
strike.
Last
year
the
Wood
Workers
got
a
40-hour
week
and
a
12'2c
hourly
wage
Brian
Robertson,
British
commander,
passed
through
Mari-enborn,
Rusian
check
point,
early
today
with
no
apparent
In
LIBEL
CASE
"STAYED"
terference.
Psttullo,
former
Premipr
of
British
Columbia
ana
mcm-
The
Russians
suggest
that
the
boost.
nouncing
that
British
planes
coming
into
Germany
will
have
fighter
escorts
until
assurance
is
received
that
Soviet
planes
"will
not
again
endanger
British
Ifgislaturc
for
Prince
Ruuci
t.
and
H.
G.
Perrv.
former
talks
they
propose
should
be
in
the
form
of
informal
dinners.
MARSHAL
PLAN
STARTS
WASHINGTON
European
nations
started
today
receiving
benefits
under
the
$6,800,-000
Marshal
foreign
aid
plan
gress
and
signature
by
the
following
its
pasage
by
Con-Pdesident
Saturday.
VANCOUVER
Tl'G
SINKS
VANCOUVER
Tfie
Vancou
Jl
education
and
member
for
Fort
George,
will
take
a
lft
in
formulating
federal
party
policy
as
concerns
the
01
British
Columbia
for
the
national
Liberal
conven
flights."
Field
'
Marshal
Montgomery
would
be
among
those
P.ERLIN,
(CP)
A
British
transport
plane
crashed
in
flames
today
a:fter
colliding
with
a
Russian
fighter
craft,
British
authorities
announced.
The
British
plane,
a
Viking,
oarried
10
pa-sseiiKers
and
four
crew
members.
Royal
Air
Force
officers
said
that
all
14
were
killed.
Two
of
the
pas-senirers
are
understood
to
ed
in
Ottawa
in
August.
Chairman
of
the
policy
com-
tnis
Province
is
to
be
Mr.
Pattullo
and
Mr.
Perry
is
one
embers.
Other
members
of
the
committee
are
Mrs.
THE
WEATHER
Mixed
snow
and
rain
fell
over
all
sections
of
southern
British
Columbia,
during
the
night.
Showery
conditions
will
persist
today
in
that
area
and
will
be
followed
by
clearing
weather
tomorrow
morning.
The
northern
half
of
the
province
Is
clear
and
cold.
Lowest
temperature
recorded
during
the
night
was
12
ibove
at
Prince
George.
Temperatures
are
exnected
to
remain
ver
tug
Tyee
sank
'during
a
ws.M.L.A
.;
Tom
Held,
M
P.;
Dr.
W.
J.
Knox,
Kclowna;
plm.
K.C.,
Vancouver;
E.
A.
Jamicson,
Sydney
'nl'xjps
and
S.
E.
F.
McCrea,
Vancouver.
snow
and
rainstorm
off
Merry
-navu
been
Americans,
E
M
ONTO
N
Publisher
Jack
Kent
Cooke
of
New
Liberty
magazine,
Writer
Harold
DinKman
and
Dr.
Charlotte
Whilton
were
-discharged
on
charges
of
conspiracy
to
libel
in
a
surprise
turn
today
in
the
celebrated
case
concerning
welfare
conditions
in
this
province
arising
from
publication
of
Hie
article
"Babies
for
Export."
A
sudden
stay
of
prosecution
was
ordered
and
the
three
were
discharged
on
the
indictment.
Theoretically
the
charges
could
be
relaid
on
the
basis
of
new
informations
and
heard
at
the
June
Assizes
of
the
Supreme
Court
but,
in
effect,
a
lawyer
said,
the
province
has
dropped
them.
KETl'KMXCi
Sl'DDENLY
NoocHH-uaooaoooo5HKioootiHjowagoooooo
KRUPPS
ARE
ACQUITTED
NUERNBERG,
Germany,
(CP)
Alfred
Krupp
and
11
co-defendant
directors
of
the
Krupp
munitions
combine
were
acquitted
today
by
a
The
,
Russian
f
lgliter
a
is
o
crashed,
killing
its
pilot,
the
sole
occupant.
Royal
Air
Force
officials
said
the
planes
fell
when
their
wings
hit.
TODA
Y'S
STOCKS
:
:
Courtesv
S.
D.
Jnhnntnn
C.n
Ltd.
j
about
10
degees
below
the
early
aiiroiivrr
Following
the
incident,
it
was
announced
that
British
transport
ulancs
coming
to
Berlin
will
isiana
in
me
uuu
oi
ueoigm
40
miles
north
of
here
this
morning.
Another
tug,
the
La-marr,
rescued
the
crew
of
seven
and
efforts
are
now
being
made
to
refloat
the
sunken
craft.
MINING
MEET
OPENS
VANCOUVER
The
fiftieth
anniversary
convention
of
the
Canadian
Institute
of
Mining
&
Metallurgy
opened
here
today
with
delegates
in
attendance
from
all
parts
of
Canada
including
geologists,
mining
April
normal
today
and
Tuesday.
Forecast
Prince
Rupert,
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Clear
today
and
Tuesday.
Northerly
winds
(20).
Continuing
cold.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
tomorrow
-At
Port
Hardy
32
and
42.
Massett
30
and
40,
Prince
Rupert
28
and
40.
henceforth
have
fighter
escorts
until
the
Russian
authorities
give
assurance
that
Russian
planes
will
not
further
endanger
British
aircraft.
In
today's
incident,
the
Soviet
United
States
war
crimes
court
of
plotting
aggressive
warfare.
The
tribunal
cleared
all
12
of
charges
that
they
committed
crimes
against
peace
and
that
they
participated
in
conspiracy
against
peace.
They
still
face
two
charges
of
plunder
and
spoliation
of
conquered
nations
and
deportation,
exploitation
and
Bobjo
10
Buffalo
Canadian
10
Consol.
Smelters
101.00
Conwest
89
Dnnulda
.
62
Eldona
68
Elder
56
Giant
Y'kniie
-2
God's
Lake
M
Hardrock
10'
Harrieana
05
Quartz
M;m
CIL
plane
is
stated
to
nave
movea
dirwllv
acre's
tho
IKttli
of
the
-
-
"irtirr
abuse
of
slave
labor.
engineers
and
company
execu-
I
lives.
U.Slavylo
ISLAND
MINERS
Mi'Dui
nrilri
NEW
LIBERAL
ORGANIZER
Dr.
J.
L.
(Jack)
McDougall
of
Vancouver.
His
appointment
as
chief
Liberal
organizer
for
British
Columbia
was
announced
last
week.
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British
transport
which
was
coming
in
for
a
lati(!;ns.
There
are
rumors
that
Russ'ctn
fighters
have
been
diving
recently
on
British
transports.
A
formal
protest
at.
today's
incident
is
being
made
by
the
British
authorities,
a
sjwkesman
saving
that
"a
serious
view
was
being
taken
of
the
affair.
General
Sir
Brian
Robertson,
British
commander-in-chief
in
Germany,
Iodized
the
official
protest
regarding
the
collision
MANY
MINES
OFF
COAST
SEATTLE
The
district
Coastguard
reported
Sunday
tho
sighting
of
eighteen
floating
mines
along
or
off
the
north
Pacific
Ccast
in
the
last
four
days.
Most
of
the
recently
re
OTTAWA
Prime
Minister
Mackenzie
King
and
Governor
General
Alexander
have
cut
short
their
visit
to
Virginia
and
are
heading
home
today
hy
plane.
Mr.
King
said
there
was
no
significance
tn
the
siuhlen
decision
to
return.
He
had
found
(he
trip
so
beneficial
and
was
now
so
rested
that
he
did
not
consider
it
necessary
to
stay
longer.
A
more
leisurely
return
had
been
planned.
,
TO
SKiN
TREATY
MOSCOW
The
treaty
between
Finland
and
Russia
is
expected
to
be
signed
within
the
next
Hire
or
four
days.
Differences
are
said
to
have
been
ironed
out
after
two
of
the
members
of
the
Finnish
delegation
returned
from
Helsinki
where
they
had
gone
for
further
instructions
from
the
Finnish
rovernment.
NANAIMO
W
-Striking
Van-,
couver
Island
coal
miners
arc
casting
secret
ballots
today
on
a
rinal
wae
offer
from
the
Canadian
Collieries.
Neither
United
Mine
Workers,
officials
or
company
executives
commented
on
the
proposal
following
a
spe
Efctern
illoy
frfmirr
Hcva
10'
i
Itusco
30'
2
Jacknife
04
.loliet
Quebec
'
Lake
Rowan
10
Lapuska
05
Little
Long
Lac
104
Lynx
08'i
Madsrn
Red
Lake
2.75
McKcnzlc
Red
Lake
52'2
McLeod
Cockshutt
108
Monc'a
28
Negus
210
Noranda
45.50
Louvicourt
03
Pickle
Crow
I-95
Regcourt
San
Antonio
3.95
Senator
Rouyn
-41
Sherrltt
Gordon
I-80
Steeo
Rock
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210
CHIANG
PREMIER,
NOT
PRESIDENT
Visit
Norway
WASHINGTON
D.
C..
(P
A
carrier
task
foroe
will
visit
Norway
this
month
for
the
promotion
of
goodwill,
the
United
States
Navy
announced
today.
The
28,000-tCR
Essex
class
carrier
Valley
Forge,
the
6,000-ton
anti-aicraft
cruiser
Fresno
and
four
destroyers
will
visit
Bergen
from
April
29
to
May
2.
The
war
ve&sels
will
be
going
to
Norway
after
a
visit
to
southern
England
p11
18
to
26
cial
conference.
It
is
indicated
from
reliable
sources,
however,
that
the
50-day
walk-out
might
end.
The
miners
seek
a
$2
per
day
Increase.
The
company
has
offered
$1.40
with
60c
extra
for
ported
mines
were
floating
off
the
west
coast
of
Vancouver
Is
land.
From
Esquimalt
naval
base
it
was
announced
that
the
naval
tug
Glendon
had
been
dispatched
to
the
Kyuquot
area
to
destroy
three
drifting
mines.
N
between
the
British
plane
and
Russian
fighter
with
Marshal
Vassily
Sokolovsky.
Soviet
commander-in-chief,
personally
tonight.
This
was
at
the
same
time
as
the
office
of
the
British
commander
In
Germany
was
an-
NANKING
Generalissimo
Chiang
Kai-Shek
is
not
expected
to
be
a
candidate
for
re-election
as
President
of
Chjna
but
will,
it
is
believed,
be
in
the
field
for
the
Premiership.
Tor,
nt
two-ana-a-half
ton
per
day
out
put-