' ; .; - I I VICTORIA, B.C. I lis H2 vic;o;:n, b. c. 3131 ORMES DRUGS Daily Delivery Phone 81 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBLA'S NEWSPAPER . at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" NO. 258 PTJTWr'lT DTtDrDT D r ClTTTUniV VrWl?.tJTrD A mCA L5 . VOL. XXXIX, v.v&4 V W A U1V A , U . V.t U A W VA-i A , It J li.VJ..UCiiV 1, f KIUE flVS CENTS mi jreall Pkia 1) l If! ; A Mrs. Smith Says Watson Island Construction 'U'iJ&Ht . i Being Brought to Conclusion Various Factors Being Co-ordinated Now as . Time for Actual Operation Nears February 1 or thereabouts is set as the date for Old Country v Football :: the actual productive operation of the Columbia Cel lulose Cos $35,000,000 high alpha sulphite mill which 2 Liberals to Be Pepped Up Liberals of Prince Rupert can expect to be livened up by the womens element in the near future, the Prince Rupert Liberal Association was told at a meeting last night by Mrs. W. D. Smith who reported enthusiastically on the convention of the National Women's Federation which she had attended in Ottawa during the summer. That had been a keen session of 320 women who had taken things very seriously and had demanded that women should be given the opporunity to participate more largely in party affairs, not only In local organization, but In representation in the legislative bodies federal and provincial including the Canadian Senate. "We are going to organize and make you men sit up and take has been under construction at nearby Watson Island during the past three year. 'Everything appears to be going according to schedule," stated George GOVERNMENT MOVES , KALIMPONG, , India Chinese troops, advancing into Tibet, reached a point only 50 miles from Lhasa, the capital. It ' was reported yesterday. Dalai Lama, temporal and religious leader of Tibet, accompanied by Regent Takta Tim-poche and the cabinet, has left Lhasa for an unknown destination. BRIGADE'S DESTINATION i OTTAWA Returning yesterday from a conference of defence ministers in New York, Hon. Brooke Claxton, minister of national defence, said the ultimate destination of Canada's special brigade was up t the unified command of the United Nations. ' : 14,000 Rl'SS PLANES 1 WASHINGTON The United States Navy said today the authorized operating strength rf Russia's air force is about 14,000 combat planes. The estimate does not include Russian Schneider of New York, vice-president of the Celanese Corporation of America, in announcing the date of com- ,. mencement of operation to the V U.S. Developing Hew Weapons SIS ttMi (Scottish League, Div. "A") Rangers 1, Hibernian 1 Aberdeen 1, Third Lanark 2 Clyde 1, Celtic 3 Falkirk 4, Airdrleonians 1 Hearts 4, Partick Thistle 5 Morton 4, East Fife 2 Motherwell 4, at. Mlrren 0 Raith Rovers 0, Dundee 1 (English League, Dir. 1 Aston Villa 0, Middlesborough 1 Blackpool 4, Everton 0 Bolton WandeTsrs 1, Stoke City Charlton Athletic 1, Chelsea 2 Derby County 3, Huddersfield Town 0 Fulham' 0, West Bromwlch Albion 1 ( WASHINGTON (P The United States appears to be hastening toward the . production of atomic weapons and special tac Daily News last night. Mr. Schneider has been on an Inspection visit to the new plant and its auxiliary enterprises including the logging up the Skeena River. jar. . T "V. ' - I Mr. Schneider and Georse notice," Mrs. Smith assured amid applause as she told of what women were doing in other places. An interesting description was -3s Liverpool 2, Newcastle United 4 i Richards, secretary of the Celanese Corporation, visited Terrace and the. logging operations yesterday. They also saw the tics for use if the Russians should Invade Western Europe, It was reported Friday. Both the air force and army report new systems for guided missiles, recoil-less weapons and atomic weapons. Atomic weapons . inplude such things as radiological equipment for poisoning areas. given of the women's convention Port Edward plant this morning STRETCH A tug strains to move a boom of pulpwood logs to the mill In the shadow of s parliament buildings before the winter f eeze-up. This photo by Malak of Ottawa shows ana leu Dy uiis anernoon s plane for Vancouver enroute back to New York. V repeated across the Dominion at 120 pul.) and paper mills. While some 55,000 mill workers Manchester UrJtsd 1, Burnley Sunderland 5, Sheffield Wednesday 1 ; Tottenham Hotspur 5, Portsmouth 1 i Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Arsenal 1 (Division 2) and tribute was paid to such leaders as Mrs. Nancy Hodges who had handled the convention in a "marvellous manner." She urgekl a continuity of party .minis crop into one or Canada g leadlnj exports, another 235,000 will be In the bush Ray Jones," plant manager, t next year's supply. ipp PHnmt and Ray Johnson,, woods man Plan Future naval aviation, transport planes or trainers. ! NO HOPE FOR PLANE GRENOBLE, France Hopes of finding a missing Air India ah- liner with 49 persons aboard dwindled today as a 60-mile gale screamed through the Alps, grounding rescue planes organization between elections ager, who have been here for some time, are now busy on the rather than becoming interested Barnsley 7, Queans Park Ran th Abandon Citizens' Day task of organizing for operation as construction goes into the final stages. They -are combining the various factors that and active only as elections came. "We should get to work now and stay active," she advised, ' suggesting that a social evening to Future Citizens' Day was set Full Scale Intervention By China in Korea Feared HONG KONG (CP) Chinese Communists have a gers 0 Blackburn Rovers 2, Preston North End 1 Brentford. 1, Notts County 3 Doncaster Rovers 3, Grimsby Town 1 last night at a Joint meeting of get the women organized should the Future Citizens committee are to be co-ordinated for proof the Junior Chamber of Com- duUon. Ion 9 French troops be an early undertaking. Mrs. O'Regan, the women's national Hull City 3. Birmingham City 2 andoned the big Chinese fortress ol Laokay, control of the North- presiaent, was ready to come merce and members of the staff Logs, floated down the Skeena and students council of Booth River, are ready on the ground school, for Tuesday, December I s logging proceeds In the Kit-12, two days before Prince Ru- sumkalum Valley near Terrace opened the flood-gates of propaganda and the en- Sheffield United 4, Chester field 1 Southampton 1, Bury 0 Kon-China frontier to trw here. FEDERAL ANNUAL ,v tnertr elvie-election,-- , lanM .luinizamaieen ..imet near.. Swansea Town 1, Cardiff City The meeting made ready for Committee Chairman S. G. ""' " 'ia..yjlmi;irurmy. A military spokesman sai.1 forces moved out of yesterday. The garrison the annual meeting of the sulng roar sounds as if tljey intend, a fuU-scale, intervention in Korea. ' Already growing evidence that the Chinese have entered the Korean campaign to a limited extent is Furk said in opening the meet 1 t-niorme ana caustics, oein delivered by a coastwise freight 0 West Ham United 3, Coventry City 2 Skeena District federal associa ing the idea of the day was to j ing concern, will be coming soon filing westward into the tion to be held next Friday afternoon and named delegates as give students a chance to jearn from Tacoma. how businesses and services were Korean War causing uneasiness In non-Com nous country occupied tribesmen. The garrison conducted before the student left The steam, power plant at Watson Island is nearly ready munlst areas In this- part rf H of about 1,200 men. Asia. The feeling In this Crowa for testing. Its fuel will be Bulk- school. In effect, he added, students take over running of the city for a day. Students would ley Valley coal delivered under contract by F. M. Dockrill'Of Allies are Firming Up have an election of mayor and. city council. The elected council would call for applications from loops Girl . 5s Nurses Telkwa. The dam at Prudhomme Lake, which makes the reservoir of water, has been completed and students for the positions the Jaycees found available In busi water is commencing to back up ness, industry, public service and into the lakes, the level of which Local Man Wins Trip to Bermuda Herbert J. Young, local manager for Swift-Canadian Co., and his wife will make a trip to Bermuda shortly as part of the reward of a sales development competition of the company recently. Mr. Young was the winning manager In the New Westminster district (including Prince Rupert) and yesterday he received word of his good fortune In a and hampering ground efforts t4 locate the scene of the crash. The plane was flying ffom Bombay to London with 41 Indian seamen and a crew of eight. It is believed to have crashed near 15,781-foot Mont Kane, Europe's highest peak. CHINESE. IN FORCE EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS A Korean-American military advisory group said tonight that the South Korean Army estimated six Chinese Communist divisions have entered Korea to oppose the Allies. MORE STORM VICTIMS VANCOUVER Pacific storms have taken three lives in British Columbia waters since Thursday. Latest victim is Richard Fraser of Deep Bay who died following an all-night ordeal aboard the fishing boat Sea Wolf which ran aground off Comox Spit near Courtenay early yesterday. Matthew Pih-lea, 60-year-old owner of the Sea Wolf, is in hospital at Courtenay suffering from exposure. The other two dead were aboard the Nelson Bros, boat Delmar an the west coast. CAUSE OF FIRE TERRACE A carelessly-thrown match by some passing driver short of gas and endeavouring to help himself from drums at the plant may have caused the fire which destroyed the Cooper mill on the Skeena . River Highway seven miles east of here Friday morning. will be raised from six to twelve feet. The six-mile pipe line from Complexion of Campaign Changed by New Resistance SEOUL 0 Allied forces form firm line today against Chi colony, on the edge of Rei China, Is the world is only a narrow step away from a third great war. The new outbreak cf propaganda with Its bvertdhes of intervention sounds ominou3. (In Washington, it Is reported that Gen. MacArthur may le advised to avoid a showdown over the Chinese Intervention in North Korea until the Communists' Intentions become clearer. Official concern is mounting, but the administration Is believed to be Inclined to wait for the dangerous situtlon to develop further before any open challenge Is made to the Pel-ping regime.) ' 'WVER 9 Miss Anra Rovnl Inland Hos-KamlMps headed the "X-:'Hist of the British C-?isterrd Nurses' As-c-toon" 137 successful 1 was Miss Audrey Hun- Prudhomme Lake to Watson Is civic administration. Appointments would be made by the mayor and council and students would work actively in those positions. In that manner students, while still in school, would have an opportunity to learn land, also an engineering feat of magnitude, is finished. Th3 follows: Alan Armstrong. B. J. Bacon, Mrs. J. H. Black, O. B. Casey, L. C. Eby, J. Eyolfson, Theo. Fortune. P. Gamula, H. F. Glassey, Earl Gordon, O. A. Hunter, G. P. Lyons, R. McKay, Sr., Malcolm McLeod, Mrs. J. A. McRae, J. A. McRae, D. Payne, Robt. Parker, J. Rogerson, Walter Smith, Mrs Kate Smith, William Smith, Thos. Speers, Mrs. T. Norton Youngs, T. Norton Youngs, this number to be added to by the executive to - make a total of thirty. The question of the provincial government's obligation in regard to an arterial highway into Prince Rupert came in for vigorous discussion with the final passage of a motion calling upon the department of public works to take immediate steps to implement its undertaking In regard to construction and maintenance. Aid. Casey would have called for the Immediate black-topping of Eleventh Avenue from Frederick Street to McBride Street, on water supply system will oe f ' Prince Rupert Oen-N'UI nursing staff. given its final tests In about two weeks. what went on In the work-a-day In all, Mr. Schneider repeated, world. Reaction last year, had employment will be given from jMoritime J9 Fatality congratulatory message from O. been favorable, he said. President Iona Hardy of the W. Pearson, the district manager. Mr. and Mrs. Young will leave senior class said there were about. nese and Korean Communist resistance a line that has stood unbroken in the face of renewed Red attacks. A U.S. Eighth Army spokesman said "the equivalent of" at least two Chinese divisions are battling United Nations forces In northwest Korea. On the Korean east coast, U.S. Marines were still in trouble. A Marine spokesman said a third and full Chinese division was Identified in that sector, round Changjin reservoir. Previously two- Chinese regiments were identified officially in the area. The vic P RIVER, N.S. W-Alox I1- 23, knockeH imcnn. lur'n2 g bnxlnu Khnv here about the end of November to Join 275 other members of the sales department from various night, died In hosnltal Post Mortem Being Held "''am is believed 10 parts of Canada and the United 180 students in grades 10, 11 and 12 and about 40 or 50 had participated, last year. There had been more positions vacant, but many students had volunteered for some Jobs and none for others. It was decided that In their letters of application for positions students this year would llr Maritime ring fa- States. They will embark from New York December 2 on the steamer Queen of Bermuda, spe 700 to 1000 men In mill and woods about 500 in the mill. As problems of accommodation and servicing arise with the approach of ctual operation of the mill, Mr. Schneider reiterated that it was still the policy of the company to depend, upon the city of Prince Rupert. He expressed particular interest m how business of the city was gearing itself to the new enterprise, particularly in the matter of housing accommodation. No doubt, he felt, some one would see opportunities here. "We are as anxius as you must Inquest Into Death of Child Is Adjourned Valhalla cially chartered for the seven- Rpfnwi nf Dr R G. Larae to! which black-topping was already 5!by Mike Colussi. It day cruise of Bermuda. tory that seemed so simple last month has changed its com note their second and third aone tnis year, dui i. in. xoungs advocated the advantages of choices. plexion. One high ranking army officer said the Reds had 300,-000 troops along the Korean- It was decided that Bill Tod-eras, president of the Junior class, perform an autopsy on the body of Clifton William Davis, two months and three days old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Davis, caused Coroner M. M- Stephens to correspond with the Attor- .. . a 1 . TODAY'S STOCKS would be responsible for posting approaching the city by way of the Prince Rupert Boulevard. After discussion, which became somewhat heated at times, an amendment along the lines of Manchurlan border. a notice Monday morning that A spokesman said the Chinese be," he said, "to see the plant ( ourtmy 8. D, Johnston Co. Ltd.) Canadians To Korea applications for the positions of city clerk and city treasurer in operation." Mr. Youngs' ideas was adopted Mr. Richards pointed to a Reds may have 1,000,000 or mors troops within "committing distance," meaning they could strike from their present loca- ney oenerais aeparuiit-m, it was disclosed at the Inquest into the Infant's death yesterday. VANCot VER highly encouraging factor in the growing demand lor high aipna Dr. Lame, at the inquest, gave over Aid. Casey's motion. Fear was expressed that a local difference of opinion as to the routo might result in getting nothing cellulose which was greater than ho O'.u-., YOKOHAMA CP The advance tions. However, intelligence ot-party said ther, , still is ; doubt of Canada-s special brlg-'ce -V"i lit ever for the manufacture of evidence that he had performed a superficial examination of the body when called to the home Bevcourt 6 Bobjo 11 Buffalo Canadian 24'2 Consol. Smelters 120.50 Conwest - 1.81 Donalda 53 Eldona 29 East Sullivan 8.50 P Mascot . would be received by the students council and that the counci' would appoint students to fill those vacancies at the assembly Thursday. The students would be addressed by a member of the Junior Chamber and if possible by City Clerk H. D. Thain. who would point out what the day was for and why It was Important. The election of the high school sent regular divisions into Ko- at 16 Cow Bay Dy me lamer. weille .. rea. Asked If he could state the cause ' Border" eer 6.50 of death, he said: "No." He could say the child appeared to have died from an obstruction to Its THE WEATHER NORTH COAST REGION celanese yarn, plastics, etc. Questioned as to a suggestion that has been current locally that, in view of the international situation, the big plant might be converted to use for making of war materials, Mr. Schneider was emphatic that there was no substance to such reports. "No change from the original purpose of the mill has been considered," he said. McDoi maid breathing. . "I do not know, he Giant Yellowknife God's Lake Hardrock .....!.. Harrlcana Heva Hosco ade sailed from here tonight aboard the troop transport James O'Hara on the last stage of its journey into Korea. The 350 Canadians expect to reacn Pusan, Korea, Monday morning;. They left Seattle two weeks ago. The advance party will stake out a training area outside Pusan, which Is a southeastern Korean port. (In Ottawa, Defence Minister Claxton announced today an in- done at all. The meeting, by resolution, commended E. T. Applewhalte, M.P. for Skeena, on his activities in connection with the campaign for Tugwell Island air strip development. Suggestion was made that a field closer to the city and accessible by road might be desirable but T. N. Youngs reported that conditions for such had been found unsuitable in the opinion of experts. The executive was empowered to pursue the matter further as might be deemed mayor and city council would be said, "what caused the obstruc .33 .27 Vz 8V2 .09 .IV 6V4 Cloudy with showers today and Sunday. Cooler Sunday. Winds light except southerly (25 In southern section today. Lows held Thursday, November 23 roomier ;.; There was some discussion as f ""ver Jacknife tonight and highs Sunday at Port to a social activity to bring students and businessmen and Jollet Quebec 1.15 vaiiey"";;;;;'" Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 38 and 45. others who had participated to .05 Lapaska tion. I believe death was probably' caused through some obstruction." He did not perform a post mortem examination. Questioned by the jury, he said it would be necessary to hold a post mortem examination to determine cause of death. Police gave evidence Dr. Large had been served with a sum eether after the Future Citizens Little Long Lac .40 Omnium" .1 .05 ask 1.20 .05 .41 8.25 2.10 6 Mi IVt 3.65 .04 1.27 .33 .00 .09 .04 2.40 .03 4.05 .41 2.40 .02 7.45 2.40 14.25 .14 1.80 .51 .11 12.25 .07 .65 Charles Quits Day but no decision was made as .13 Lynx to what form that entertainment Madsen Red Lake 2.12 Canarti., Con would take. Those attending were necessary. Desirability of getting the level crossing road leading to the new fishermen's floats at Fairview rantry battalion and supporting troops from the brigade will move to Korea late this month. The battalion selected is the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light In Boxing Club McKenzie Red Lake .... McLeod Cockshutt .... .45 2.30 .31 Moneta Students Council Committee Iona Hardy, oresldent of the ! Negus 95. senior class; Bill Toderson, presi fantry. The remainder of the mons ordering him to perform a j postmortem examination. The coroner read a letter he said he had received from Dr. Large which said ho could not nerfnrm the examination be due. dent of the Junior class, and special 11,000-man brigade will r.. Sunday, November 5, 1950 High 9:47 18.3 feet 21:58 17.9 feet Low 3:19 6.8 feet 15:57 8.0 feet Evelyn Smith, public relations Noranda vJ.ou Louvlcourt 18 Pickle Crow 175 Regcourt 06 San Antonio 2 60 m 4 . PITTSBURGH iff Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight champion, may bolt from the International Boxing Club, too promotion outfit in the United States. Jake Mlntz, the Cincinnati negro champion's co-manager, has been feuding with IBC matchmaker Al Well and said: "This is a showdown. If those guys in New York don't sea Bay was expressed at the meeting and it was reported that the federal member was working with a view to having the job carried out as expeditiously as possible now that permission jad been granted. " 'J L' Walter Smith, president ofhe Prince Rupert Liberal'. Association, was In the chair' and twenty-five members were present . officer. Teaching staff Principal A. M. Hurst of Booth School; Vice-PrinclPal R. H. Davidson. Junior Chamber of Commerce Committee Chairman S. O. remain In Fort Lewis, Washington, where it will be available for the service required of Canada as a member of the United Nations and of the North Atlantic Treaty. Movement of the brigade to Fort Lewis will start November 15 and be completed by November 25.) Edward Mussallem was today fined $5 and costs on a charge cause he was the family physician. He had been called to the scene of the death soon after it had occurred. He felt himself not qualified to perform such an examination and that he felt (Continued on page 3 Senator Rouyn .l -24 Va Sherrit Gordon 2.46 : Steep Rock 5.95 Silver Miller - 88 Upper Canada 1-87 Golden Manltou 5.85 of failing to pay his hospital n the due : Furk; President Geoff Hill, Neely surance premium by things my way, we re throua::!. date. Moore and Don Tucker.