PHOVINOIAL LIBRARY psovmcial libhaiu. OH! A, lC. 113 V- VICTORIA, 2. C. onus 'cudm III! Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'8 NEWSPAPER PHONE 81 DSL, Published ot Canada's Most Srrorcgic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest' VOL. XXXIX, NO. 155 - PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS For Action In Pacific In Korea are Trapped U.S. F orces iFirst American Killed Altlce And Churchill Join In Lauding United States !ln Battle In Far East LONDON The House of Commons cheered 1 today when Prime Minister Clement Attlee said hoj TOKYO (CP) United States infantry forces thought the world was indebted to the United States j vvere today cut off by tank-led North Korean troops for its prompt action in the Korean situation.- Again j in a blazing battle on the central Korean front south SHOPPING SPRF.E GLASGOW Mounted police were called to break up a riot by thrifty Scoti housewives at a store sale when 200 women tried to crash lines of shoppers who had waited all night. i TRAGIC TWINS PARIS Yvonne I-tGur.-i, young Parisian maid, uve birth to a bahy, strangled it wilb a belt and then went tq . pulicr station to confess murder. There she fainted. Police sent her to hospital, where she gave birth io the other twin. DEATH TOIX 845 CHICAGO The holiday there were cheers when Mr. Attlee told ot Britain & , of guwon but communications were later reported to equally speedy action in support of the United StaWl v,avc fccen resumed. The size of the American force T t Anr,nr,0 nt of WflF war Wnitlfl wouiu . " ' ' I 1 ' . -. ll move. The danger was not indicated. have been greater had there not Calls Bill been su:h prompt action. Former Prime Minister Win Alaska Cities ston Churchill wished to associ "V Til , .-.-Vf' - Two hours after the Americans went into action a combat foot soldier was kliled, the first of this war. The soldier, an am-, munition bearer for a bazooka squad, was ' shot through tUe heart by a blast from a ..red ate himself with - Mr. Attlee i "Disgraceful" rtatement. There was no doubt Given Warning JUNEAU Through the gov- crnor of Alaska, Ernest Oruen- ; i lng, comes notification of a de-' cision- to provide ' lor greater as to: who was the aggressor in Korea. The wartime Prime Min ister asked for a secret session civilian security in Alaskan '- . of the House on the Korean ' situation. Fnv.'i Calder and 'Arthur Turner, C.C.F. MX.A.'s, Heard Here "Dlpgracef ul bill" was the term week-e.'il death toll in the I nited States climbed to 845 as millions of motorists took to the highways and beache for the July 4 celebration. High cltie.1 and towns in view of re tank, Anxious air officers waitel for a break in bad weather A')' they could' loo:e their warplanes fot attacks, on the invaders.'. General MacArthur's com H.M.C.S. Athabascan cent developments la Korea. All mayors are being instructed to Ferguson, applied last night at sr public C.C.F. meeting by Frank Calder, organize civilian defences. This j docs not, as yet, provide tor munique made no mention ! the trap. M.LJV. for Atlin. to the bill to evacuation of civilians. The news of the setback t? way mishaps caused 495 deaths. IWOni.lWS AGAIN VANCOUVER -The first outbreak of juvenile violence in more than a month sent fc.ir Pioneer, Passes amend the Indian Act that came un lust before proroguing of the first American infantry to go Into action . came from- advanced headquarters in Soutii Rupert Loses George George Ferguson,, Ferguson,, another anotner . oijreaerai raruameni last monui. Prince Rupert's pioneer citizens. I . Mr. Calder told of the thou-paased away late yesterday af- jsand of dollars spei:t by natives ternoon in the Prince Rupert to place their case before the Alaska Series Korea. Headquarters said . oniy that northerners had driven -defenders" on to high ground north of Osan but the Unitei States troops were previously General Hospital following a two-' Dominion Parliament over the year illness. He was the head of . past ' few years and said the 'a well known family and made natives had expected a very good Trinre Rupert lost a dlsheart men to hospital here. Two of the vietims were f,hot. Ray Moos, 27, was hit in the knee m I.orn CampVll. 23. was shot in the nose. The outbreak started wh-n ,i hand ft youths becan shooting out street liehts on a down town thoroughfare. APPEALS TO RUSSIA his home at 1630 Eighth Avenue ct. Among exceptions he took with the bill were: cning game to Ketchikan yesterday afternoon in a pitchers battle between Skelly for the East. I Born in 1837 in Kinross-snlre, located there. Osan is eleven miles southeast of Suwon which, in turn, is 23 miles south of fallen Seoul. The communique confirmed the gathering threat of Com- Mnrtv rwSwprs that. KhntilH hnvp I ' to , been' turned over to the pro-j Alaskans and Bill Robinson for Rupert. The scora was 3-2. I Scotland. Scotland. Mr. Mr. Ferguson Ferguson came came I Canada In 1909 and settled in vinre.-- were not- The boys from here took Saskatchewan for a COUple Of, , 0linrpr hreeH woro not rnn LONDON Britain has again .. i early lead in the , mUnl8i lOFCe cal Ul ounu first inning, j apparently designed to lop olf In Llnd- ,v.i cotrj t tvB frrlht. years.' He came to Prince Ru-1 (Continued, on page 5) when Pavlikis knocked ked pert July 1, 1912, and worked lor the city In the early days on the 1,1110 1 VJV-V .III v v..v That would open the way for" a i Installation of water mains and say, who had got on with a double. The local boys picked up another In the fourth Inning, when Ketchikan came through with three runs to win the . ball Inquest On Al Terrace;: the building of the Acropolis Hill reservoir He also worked ' lor drive on Taejon, military centre 73 miles south Off Suwon. ( Northerners ire pouring mare troops and arms across the Hai. River just south of Seoul in a number of years for the Canai- ii.lr".i - 1 " He J, appealed to the Russian go-I ernmr.ri. to co-operate in bringing al-out a settlement of r I the Korean conflict. The ap-! peal was made n the Soviet J government by British Amhas-j sadot in' iHoscow Sir David I KeUy. ,C :'. I NI RSE "MENTIONED" I TOKYO The first Canadian j nurse to he mcntir.-VHl in Kor- can wartime . despatches is j Captain (Miss) Viola McCon-I nell, of Moncton, New Bruns : Un Fish tt Cold Storage Co. gdmi. ' in the evening everything went pretty much in Ketchikan's retirpd ahnut twentv vears azo. Inauest commenced at Terrace H.M.C.S. Cayuga ! Deceased is survived by ' his before Coroner Will Robinson this spite of repeated air strikes on rail lines stretching north of the city. The Co.nmunists were not responding by aif to thcis favor and emded ua wltn tne 'wirjow; mree aaugniers, marg- muruiug iotiuwing recovery uvm - jaret (Mrs. J. Flewin); Fditn,4the Skeena River near Kwinttsl ; bys of tne Territory holding a m-2 win Ketchikan scored ail (Mrs. O. Crockhart," and Mary; yesterday of tr.e body of William 'and three sons, Hugh. Peter and Gibb of Prince Rupert who, with jGeoree. There are ten grand-jDon Fraser sr., and Don Fraser jr. children. ' oi lerrace, were cenevea 10 nave Funeral will take place Friday i been drowned when an auto-afternoon from the chapel of B.C. I mobile plunged Into the river Undertakers with Rev. ' E. A. (from the highway on June 4. Wright officiating, , runs in the first three innings, four in the first and three each in the second and third. Indications were that Rupert's pitching stock was pretty well depleted. Ludwlgson pitched the evening game for Ketchikan. In Monday's game the final score was 8-5 . for Ketchikan. The deciding point came In the sixth inning when Johnston for Ketchikan knocked out a home tun with two men aboard. A 17-year-old Ohio schoolboy, ' Moe, pitched for Ketchikan. air attacks although! mere was some anti-aircraft ffre. A constant stream of United States reinforcements is flowing into South Korea fsom Japan by air and sea. The setback oh the Suwon front came after Communist tanks had, apparently, beer, turned back by fir of United States artillery. ' General MacArthur's headquarters announced today Uiat United States planes have .destroyed seven Red planes and damaged four. His Communiqas said the Commuhlsts had al, lost eight armored cars, -119 trucks, 22 locomotives, 18bd& cars and seven tanks. By . The Inquest adjouwied after the body had been viewed, Glbb's body was recovereS from the death car which was lifted from the bottom of the river near the highway hank and icon fell back Into the swift flowing stream. Seamen Killed Fumigating Gas BIRKENHEAD. Eng. 1 Twot However, there was time to seamen were killed and some 38 1 piace a rope around the one body '.. MMM l W Hill in. j I1iw f " irTfc.-.. -mm '-'W imu itol'- i others made ill by lumigaiing ,which was hauled to the barge wick. . Miss McConnell performed . distinguished duties during the course of the first week's f ishfrT. A citation from General MacArthur Is expected. STALIN'S HEART ATTACK SALE M, Mass. Roland "Westey, writing in the Salem Evening News, says Prime Minister Stalin suffered a heart atlark June 2 while on a plane bound for China. StaHri returned to Moscojv. Estey said he received the in-t formation from . a source in Europe. . . POrE AGAINST REDS VATICAN CITY Pope Pius has decreed excommunication of all who "plot against legitimate ecclesiastical authorities." Observers here regarded this as a major move by the Pope against Communist governments of Eastern Europe. KAMLOOPS HOTTEST KAMLOOPS This city reg gas aboard the 10,000 ton British and taken to Terrace. Five hours was than spent try liner Cheshire in the Mersey River docks. The men became Living Cost Record High . OTTAWA iCI"'. Climbing meat ing to'lift the car up again but ill in the engine room when the Without success. H.M.C.S. Sioux A BOUND? The Tribal Class destroyers Athabascan, Cayuga and Sioux are three Cana-wships being sent to the Far East In case the United Nations Security Council calls madlan naval assistance In the Korean War. The 1,900-ton Athabascan, shown above i: throiiRh rouRh seas, Is stationed on the west coast. Also stationed at Esquimau Is her ship, the Cayuga, and the 1.700-ton "V type destroyer' Sioux. The three ships leave art Harbor today. They ' will be under direct command of General Douglas Mac Arthur (CP Pnoto) air compressor was turned on, There Is little hope of pulling apparently dislodging a gas the car out again until the water nrices carried the official cost prepared for a voyage to Aus- !car is believed to still contain the I of living index to a new high Thursday, July 6, 1950 tralta Wltn Briusn emigrants. omer iwo ooaies. mars ui joj.i ni, uc . , ' The Dominion Bureau of Sta- X tJics Sorts that the rise from High 5T TODAY'S STOCKS-: i 16.6 feet 18.3 feet ' 7.5 feet 6.3 feet 5:57 18:44 0:17 12:10 OmatS Worn Over Next Confesses To Low 164 at May 1 was caused almost entirely by advancing meat prices which pushed the food index from 204.6 to 209. I1' I . I irriK Arcnn Johnston Co. Ltd.) (Courtesy 8. D. rni.UMRUS. O. (W Harry J. jiinunisi Ftiuvrj in rai hum istering 100, was recorded the hottest in British Columbia raiinn. fire marshall, saifl Rob The June 1 figure compares with 160.5 a year ago. The Index is based on 100 for the average of 1935-39 period.- ert Dale Segee, 21, CircleviUe, O., WO KONO ) While the Communist war blazes In Korea. THE WEATHER .. : Synopsis Cloudy skies and. some light rain came to the northern coajt and Bulkley Valley regions overnight as a weak weather sstetn moved in from the west, the rest of the province was gen Bevcourt 40 Bobjo 101 Buffalo Canadian 15 Consol. Smelters 95.50 Conwest '., M0 Donalda M Eldona 35 East Sullivan 5.80. ats are worried over the next Communist move. Observers here that, the Knvtet. Union Is settlne the stage for another BASEBALL SCOKES blow in the East against the United. States. has signed statements admitting he set the Ringling Bros. Circus fire at Hartford, Conn., that killed 168 persons and Injured 412 others In 1914. Callan said Segee also admitted setting between 25 and 30 other fires In . Portland, Me. between 1930 ri icur- nther fires In New ipse observers say R could be expected that, witnin ine . Chinese CnmiTiiinlsU wnnlrf rush trooDS from Manchuria erally clear early this morning. wrt Nortlj Korea In lt war against the south., - TODAY National League Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 1 . American League New York 9, Philadelphia 5 (stopped by rain In seventh). National League Boston 5-12, Philadelphia Cloud and widely scatterea showers will spead into , ,the northern interior and down the coast as far as the west coast of Vancouver Island today as the . ..1 ' Tr Hampshire and Ohio; and that he is personally responsible for Tuesday. It was possible to fry ari egg on the sidewalk. MANY WOULD ENLIST TORONTO Toronto is experiencing a flood Of inquiries concerning military, naval and air service in 'Korea. They conic chiefly from war veterans. ' CHINESE REDS TO KOREA TOKYO The report was heard here Sunday that more than a quarter of million Chinese Communist troops were moving from interior zones closer to the mainland coast, which would bring them nearer to Korea. PATROLLING FORMOSA HONG KONG Steady United States naval patrols around Formosa makes it un Applewhailes On Visit To Yukon Found With In Chest 'OUVER C)Robert Cam- slaying four persons, tie was arre.'trd last May 17 on a farm near East St. Louis, 111. system niuves cwiw(uu. increasing cloudiness and a few thunderstorms will develop In the Interior today. By tomorrow improving "con Chicago 1-3, St. Louis 4-4 Brooklyn 4-5, New York 5-3 Pittsburgh 4-8, Cincinnati 8- Vancouver Bralorne 7.00 B. R. Con P22 B. R. X -05',ii Cariboo Quarts 1-05 Congress '. 20 ' Hedley Mascot .25 Pend Oreille 6.0a Pioneer 2.70 ( Premier Border . .03 '4 , Privateer 134 Reno - -03, Sheep Creek 106 is Silbak Premier 28 ' ' Taku River " .08 Salmon Gold .05 Spud Valley '... -08 Silver Standard 1.40 Western Uranium . .50 ! Oils-Anglo Canadian --. 4.75 Atlantic 1&" Calmont 3 , Central Leduc ' 1-35 Home Oil 12 50 i Mercury ok&ita : : Pacific Pete : -90 Princess - -9 Roval Canadian t Royalite 10.00 Toronto I Aumaque 13 j Beattle " MV2 year-old marine engines 5. Following the lose of the session of Parliament at Ottawa, E. T. Applewhalte, M.P. lr Skeena, and Mrs. Applewhalte will make a tour of the Yukon and Northern British Columbia ;,n, taken to hospital last With an iri nlrlf In his ditions may be expected generally along the coast although temperatures will be slightly Giant Yellowknife 6.60 God's Lak 28 Hardrock , -3 Harricana 07 Hea -06 HOSCO : 06,2 Jacknife 05 . Jollet Quebec ' - -38 Lapaska - 05 Little Long Lac -38 Lynx'x-.-! 23 - Madsert Red Lake 2.20 McKenzfe Red Lake 40 McLeod Cockshutt 2 20 Moneta 28 Negus 100 Noranda . 64.00 Louvlcourf , ' I5 Pickle Crow .'...1, 1-58 Rtgcourt ... 05 ' San Antonio ?. 2.55 ' Senator Rouyn -22 Sherrlt Gordon ,. 1-73 Steep Rock 2-90 Silver Miller ., .75 Upper Canada 2.05' s still In a critical condi- lower over most regions. )i f' 'ay. Cameron was found i Halibut Sale's (American) Ilene, 58,000, 26.5c, 26.5c, 22.5?, Pacific. 11 Swift II, 10,000, 26c. 26c, 20c, Storage. . (Canadian) Waterfall, 49,000, 28.6c, 28.2c, ' ' Atlln. CORRESPONDENT SHOT American League I Detroit 1-10, Chicago 4-9 New York 16-3, Washington 9-3 St. Louis 7-8, Cleveland 8-3 Philadelphia - Boston postponed . Western International ' Victoria 6-5 Tacoma 5-6 Wcnatchee 8-11, Vancouver 7-3 (first game 11 Innings). SDokane 6-4, Salem 1-1 1 a west end apartment, j with him was Mrs. Car- before returning to their home In Prince Rupert. They left Ottawa on Mbnday and will be in Edrnorv'.on tomorrow morning. ! From the Alterta capital they I will fly to Whitehorse and will visit other noints In the Yukon likely there will be any developments of importance on that island for the present. KOREAN EXECUTIONS forces, once near Seoul, were VRn, 33, her face covered Forecast North Coast Region Cloudy with a few showers today. Variable cloudiness overnight an .1 cloudy again tomorrow. A little cooler. Winds westerly, 15, today and light tomorrow. Lows "tonight and highs tomorrow At Port Hardv 48 and 62, Smd- f"e foot rubber hose filled hrfnre re-enterinc British Col I forces, once in Seoul, were atl was found In the llv-'H of Mrs. Ryan's apart-Police investlEatinii the Trl-City 6-3, Yakima 1-1 Pacific Coast Pnrtlanrt 7-5. Seattle 2-8 i spit 48 and 60, Prince Rupert 50 umbia and Mr. Appiewn.uw. t TOKYOjack jamcs, a Brlt-rkftng of Skeena at Atlln whew Press correspondent, they are due July 15. From, . ,, quick in arresting republican officials. They appeared at drumhead courts martial, mi.i being executed. laid Oakland 17-9 Los Angeles 2-1 and 60. ;'ed from his wife for more i year. - ' in the foot. tneie nicy m it-ium i - Rupert. . t