NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER As. V7 BLimiC A Promp Service 1MES DRUGS At All Hours kitty Delivery PHONE 81 Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port--"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." STAR, V.. CABS VOL. XXXVII, No. 119. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENT8 D) Jon In .! Coylel Assure udd 7 b Remove Differential Pledge Made In Vancouver By Federal Minister VANCOUVER (CP) Hon. line L( Reach Climax il Day Or So P -Arab forces ex- ft Unce eacs tin UKiay " i"""" SEARCHING FOR MORON TORONTO 0 Police were to rish fighters In the jor Jerusalem. I said that Jewish ( i ,. - , & James C. Gardiner, minister of agriculture, forecast here last night the removal of the "mountain differential" freight rate. Speaking' in the Vancouver Centre by-election campaign, Mr. Gardiner said: "If It is going to be removed, it will be by a Liberal government. I will even go so far as to say that it will be removed by the present Liberal government." RADIOACTIVE FIND IS MADE TORONTO, Kh Minister of Mines Frost of Ontario announc day searching for a chunky youth who Is believed to have lured eight - year - old Teresa Howling into a York Township field where he smashed, her ed yesterday the discovery of jnatcd at 8,000, are and water Inside grged city, blanes bombed Tel Jsixlli day running, j, n . Gurion ' asked jjt, Russia and the to step in and Bibing. i Army claims the Mount Zion and a !i at nearby Zion rauioacuve iiuueitiia ncai viai Rapids, eight miles north of Bevin Says So Before Britain's Labor Party SCARBOROUGH, Eng. (CP) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said today that communist countries of eastern Europe are fostering civil war in Greece and appealed to them to stop it. Without mentioning Russia, Mr. Bevin told the Labor Party's annual conference that "one lift of a finger from a place you 5) skull with a stone. Found seventeen hours after leaving her home, the girl is slowly recovering in hospital where she underwent two opera- Cochrane, Ontario. "'It is the most promising discovery ever made in the province," Frost said in a statement. The announcement said that ft' LOCAL TIDES Friday, May 21, 1948 High 12:35 19.2 feet Low 6:20 " 2.6 feet misalcm. It claims more than 1,000 square miles of to Arabs shelled an j lions to relieve pressure on the James Bay basin had been open ed for claim staking. Buital and a Hebrew 18:20 64 feel brain. know would stop It tonight." He POairaft 40 Million. Al uminum Company PoDDaiir Interested opposed "any steps to carry on. aggressive war against Soviet; Russia or any other country."? "I do not believe war is inevitable," Bevin said." The danger here that a war is likely to arise is a war of nerves which the Russians can stop." " The party, brushing aside recent Left Wing Labor attacks, adopted 17 to 1 ratio resolution approving the government's domestic and foreign policies." jpring the night, '.quarters said ' that fcrce in Syria two ,w up a military g, cast of Bebot-,je bridge across the jjtian Army claims jjeir Sineid, seven 0 Gaza and 28 miles 1 Aviv, and Beer-jt; lies southwest of uth are in the area V the Arabs by the - WOULD CURTAIL NOT ELIMINATE U.N.VETO An interesting study of Secretary of State George C. Marshall as he testified before the House fbreign affairs committee at Washington, D.C., in connection with proposed legislation that would commit the United States as an advocate of elimination of the veto hi the United Nations. In the event that Russia refused to agree to elimination of the veto, a body of anti-Soviet powers would be created. Secretary Marshall advised the committee that while the U.S. favors amelioration of the big powers' veto in certain circumstances, the government does not favor all-out elimination. In Sites Not Far From Rupert ALL LETTERS BY I AIR MAIL SOON j OTTAWA (CP) Postmaster Ernest Bertrand announced today in the House of Commons that after July 1 all letter mail will be carried by air mail whether it bears regular or air mail postage. DESTROYER TO VISIT RUPERT CANADIAN ACE DIES Gardiner Canal, Dean Channel and Bute Inlet Areas to Be Investigated VANCOUVER (CP) Top officials of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. wilHnvestigate the feasibility of building a large plant on the British Columbia ('oast. It is reported that, if a suitable location can Car Dealers Officer Here To Probe Sales Problems 1' I lJ Buiz Beurling Killed in Crash While Going to Aid of Jews ROME, A Canadian, be- be found, the company may pour $400,000,000 into a ' lit & w- huge hydro-electric power and aluminum plant de ! lieved to have been Flight Lieut- Next Canadian warship to visit Prince Rupert in the course ' enant George (Buzz) Beurling, p,s on November 29 j I -" " I IvEATHER i villIMS jMurbanre in the ika -which has been line north coast for 't days is now mov-i; This may give h north coast later rather is expected liicl warm over most jcrn coast and the fcrrow. fprrt, yiii-rn Char-iiilli Coast ( south - Overcast today ;ttcnt rain com-i: afternoon. Friday: (fell showers. WinJ UMmtherly, 20 m.p.h. velopment. At the Invitation of Hon. E. T Effect on the western Canadian automobile sales industry of the .restrictions and taxation imposed last November by the federal government's American dollar-saving program is being probed by a leader of the Federation of Automobile Dealers' Association of Canada who is in the city today. Keipey, minister of lands. Presi dent R. E. Powell and"-Vice of a series . of coastal reserve Canada's No. I fighter ace in the training cruises will be H.M.C, 1 Second World War, was killed to-i S. Cayuga which is due from ( day when a plane enroute to aid June 4 in the afternoon to the j the Jewish cause in Palestine morning of June 7. Cayuga will arashed and burned at the Rome be the first Tribal class des- j air field. troyer ever to visit the port. Her In Montreal Beurling's father President McNeely Dubolse of AREA TWO TO' CLOSE JUNE 1 the AlumUiium Co. will visit possible sites during the week-end He Is Howard B. Moore, man aging director of the fecieraUon, Toronto. He is here to confer with city automobile dealers In the course of 'a tour of western The coastal sites are Chilco-Taseko with a possible develop men at the head of Bute Inlet; Eutsum-Kimsqult, at the head of Dean Channel, and Taktsa-Kemano at the head of Gardner Canal. expressed the belief that there was little count his son had died. "My son told me some time ago," Fred Beurling said, "that he was heading that way (to Palestine)." He emphasized, however, that he had no definite news. captain is Cdr. O. C. S. Robertson, R.C.N., who won the George Medal for mine disposal during the war. Cayuga was the third Tribal class destroyer to be built in Canada, having been commissioned from Halifax" in November last. Halibut fishing in Area Two and Otie-K will close at midnight, June 1, the Internationa al Fisheries Commission announced today. It will terminate the shortest season for Area Two in the history of the coast. The area opened May 1. NOMINATED AGAIN E. T. Applewhalte, named to contest Skeena federal riding for Liberal party. & Friday. (Southern j Canadian ciueS. Mr. Moore was tk .ir today, overcast j RUpsl spoakcr al lne Rotary Club "K,u' 11U1C cnange. ,uncneon U)(lay Iture. Lows tonight Friday: Port Hardy liMa.sselt 4(5 and 55, r 45 and 58. Applewhaite Is Again APPLEWHAITE IS BUSY MAN Tlie official represents 2,800 organized automobile dealers in Canada and he is discussing with western agents the effects of current government regulations not only from the dealers' point of view but also their impact on buyers. Other points in which he is ;m board DRIVE Halibut Sales American Eureka, 15,000, 17.60, 17 and 10.10, Storage. ; Canadian Paslng Cloud, 25,000,17.80, 16.70 and 10, Booth. Atll, 16,000, Co-op. Keno, 5,000, Co-op. Shirlu, 11,000, Co-op. Skeena Maid, 6,000, Co-op. Haida Chief, 28,000, Co-op. ' Advance, 16,000, Co-op. Straffen, 23.000, Co-op. Robert B., 26,000, Co-op. Ingrid, 8,000, Co-op. Mother III, 25,000, Co-op. MAN'S REMAINS FOUND IN SHARK HONG KONG Fishermen said today that they had caught a giant 450-pound shark containing the remnants of a man'd body. The only identifying article appeared to b a piece of United States Army jungle green A fi V LLJ interested are: Edwai'ti T. Applewhaite, renominated as Liberal candidate for Skeena lederal riding, was born in Nelson November 23, 1898, and went, from High School there to enlist in the First Great War, serving overseas with the Canadian Forestry Corps. On his return to Canada he coin- Choice of Liberals Renominated to Be Liberal Candidate For Skeena Deferment Move Is Rejected Resolutions For Ottawa Meet Edward T. Applewhaite, who was the. party's unsuccessful candidate in the 1945 peneral election, will contest Skeena riding again as the Liberal standard bearer at the next general election. The nomination 1. The effect, of regulations on the supply of motor cars to fill the need that grew substan tlally In the years when cars were not being proaucea iui Dieted law studies in Nelson civilian use. trousers worn by countless natives since the end of the war. 2. To examine methods for with Hamilton and Wragge and for three years practised in Rossland. Moving to Stewart in AUTO DEALER CHIEF Howard B. Moore, managing director of the Association, who arrived in the city today from Terrace where he was guest at a dinner last night. Today he was guest speaker at the weekly luncheon of the Prince Rupert Rotary Club. Tonight he will meet, local dealers at a dinner meeting. greater facilities for' the tecnni- of Mr. Applewhaite took place late yesterday afternoon at a convention which had previously rejected cal training of dealers staffs r order that there may be mor-: 're-hampered Mus-uliern British Col--ek aid for Its sum-"is with an appeal !iizations for dnna- campaign, in addl-t individual membcr-4 as decided at a ' Museum Board r5(Urnoon. tUie shortness of wever, the Board the Museum about ler to make It avail - a proposal to defer making ai : : TOD A Y'S STOCKS : : Courtesy 8. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. 1928, he went Into the -general insurance business with the late, H. W. M. Ra.Mon and for twelve years was village clerk there. He was president of the Stewart Board of Trade for four years and thirteen years sercetary of vention were approved, these including: Construction of an Ail-Canada nomination. The deferment proposal emanated from delegates of Skeena provincial riding led by Dr. L. M. Greene of Smith- transcontinental highway from Atlantic to Pacific coasts to be HENDERSON better-trained personnel in service establishments. 3. To Impress upon dealers the necessity of curtailing accidents on public highways and to exercise greater vigilance and aggressive action to reduce hazards on the highways. 4. . To encourage an increased awareness of the need for providing a more effective way of moving goods, people and services more rapidly. built and maintained by the Dominion government with fed IS FREE MAN fisiuirs during the ' tourist season. Bobjo 14 Buffalo Canadian 10 Vi Consol. Smelters 116.00 Conwest 1.22 Donalda 78, Eldona 1.22 East Sullivan 2.60 Giant Yellowknlfe 4.70 God's Lake 66 Hardrock IV?. Harricana 08 y2 Heva 15 ' t to obtain support organizations, the fsend letters to the Vancouver Youth Cleared In Connection With Killing of Policeman VANCOUVER Charge of the Canadian Legion. In all community activities he took a leading part. Since coming to Prince Rupert hi 1943, Mr. Applewhaite has been engaged in the insurance business and also has been extremely active as secretary of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce. He is also secretary of the Public Relations Council f weir meetings to 'a" of the Museum unlawful passession of an of f will again be of- fensive weapon against 18-year- t positiun of curator old William Henderson was withdrawn in police court today. At Y asked to conduct f 'r individual mem torney-General Gordon Wismer said that no further charge ers but was voted down 34 to 20. f he convention then proceeded with the nomination of a candidate. The choice was made after a poll between Mr. Applewhaite and H. F. Glassey. Following the poll, Mr. Glassey moved that the nomination of Mr. Applewhaite be made unanimous. The names of Wra, Watts, George McAdams and Roderick MacLeod were also mentioned but did not go to the vote. Continuing an all afternoon session into the evening, the convention considered plans for an early commencement of the campaign in support of Mr. Applewhaite. Delegates for the national convention to be held at Ottawa August 5, 6 and 7 to name a suc-.cessor to Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King as leader of the party were named in the persons of G. W. Nlckerson, Olof Hanson ad C. P. Bussinger with J. d: McRae, G. B. Casey and eral assistance for a northern transprovinclal highway from Jasper to Prince Rupert. Institution by the federal government of a coastguard service on the Pacific Coast with provision for an emergency air service to isolated points on the coast. Inauguration of a targe scale selective immigration program over a period of .five years with a comprehensive and complete survey of sparsely settled areas capable of receiving settlers in- eluding the Jasper-Prince Rupert railway line, the Edmonton-' Dun vegan .railway, the Prince .Albert area and the Fort Churchill railway line. Complete surveys in conjunction with the United States looking to the construction of a railway into Northern British Columbia and the Yukon for the lle Preparations are It" open the Museum. the Board were ex- Business and Pro-women's Club, the rounR People's Asso- ! are nilU; rlannnn Vancouver . Bralorne 9.15 B.R. Con 04 B. R.X 06 V2 Cariboo Quartz 1.66 Dentonla : 01 Grull Wihksne 04 Hedley Mascot 51 Minto 01 Vz Pend Oreille 4.35 Pioneer 3.05 Premier Border 03 '2 Privateer 21 Reeves McDonald 1.95 Reno 08V2 Salmon Gold .16 Sheep Creek 1.10 Taylor Bridge .45 Taku River 40 Vananda 37 Congress .03 Pacific Eastern 05 Hedley Amalgamated .. .02 Vi Silbak Premier 36 Oils A.P. Con 19 ft Calniont 58 C. & E. 7.25 Foothills 2.90 Home 9.40 Toronto Athona 08 Aumaque 18 . Beattie 71 Bevcourt .'. 36& and Navy League. Mr. Applewhaite is an Anglican and active in the St. Andrew's Cathedral. He is also a member of the Rotary Club and one of his prized possessions is the King George V Silver Jubilee medal he received in recognition of his work as secretary of the Canadian Legion at Stewart. In 1930 Mr. Applewhaite was married to Mrs. W. C. Cameron, a well known and esteemed pioneer woman of Stewart. His fattier is a fruit farmer at V..ttlll and would be laid. "Henderson was charged with murder," the Attorney-General said. "His family has been through enough agitation." Last night Henderson was acquitted at his second trial on the charge of murdering two police officers. He had been previously convicted and sentenced to hang but later was granted a new trial. arranging ex- the Junior f'ham fcmerce for painUng Door. Baseball Scores American League New York 8, St. Louis 4. Washington 4, Chicago 1. Boston 1, Detroit 4. Philadelphia 1, Cleveland 6. National League Chicago 1, Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 0, New Ybrk 5. Pittsburgh 1, Boston 4. St. Louis 14, Brooklyn 7. Pacific Coast League San Diego 8, Hollywood 3. Oakland 8, San Francisco 0. Los Angeles 12. Seattle 3. Sacramento - Portland, postponed. Western International League Bremerton 4, Tacoma 3. Vancouver 8, Victoria 2. ; Other games postponed, rain. Hosco , ... .37 Jacknife 05 Joliet Quebec 40 Lake Rowan 09 'z Lapaska 05 Little Long Lac 1.00 Lynx ... , 08 2 Madsen Red Lake 2.80 McKenzie Red Lake 45 McLeod Cockshutt 1.23 Moneta . .' 30 Negus ;". 2.48 Noranda 50.75 Louvicourt .70 Pickle Crow 2.28 Regcourt 06 San Antonio 4.00 Senator Rouyn 46 Sherrit Gordon 2.65 Steep Rock 2.15 Sturgeon River .17 Silver Miller 28 larRe totem nolcs ar the building, will me near future, Dais for them are f1 discussed plans by M"seum could r. SASKATCHEWAN F.I.F.CTION R E G I N A Premier T. . C. Douglas Wednesday night called a general election in Saskatchewan for Thursday, June 24, The C.C.F. now holds 47 of 55 seats in the Legislature. TAKES AMUSEMENT TAX VICTORIA British Columbia today took over the amusement and pari-mutual taxes vacated by the federal f" Cunningham col dual purpose of national defence and development of natural resources. Undertaking by the lederal government of a standard edu-(Continued on Pare Two) H. F. Glassey as alternates. RESOLUTIONS FOR OTTAWA Several resolutions 'lor Bub-mission to the national con li totem poles Vn 'mportant part -...vj.i ... i t