VICTORIA,
G.C.
PROVINCIAL
LI3.1A3Y,
VICTORIA,
B.
c.
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lave
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given
to
the
Flood
Fund?
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incc
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AND
CENTRAL
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COLUMBIA'S
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ABS
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port-Trince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XXXVII,
No.
145.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.
C,
MONDAY,
JUNE
21,
1948
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
B.C.
FLOOD
EMERGENCY
CAMPAIGN
ijective
$25,000
ription
to
Date
$12,37216
P
Kef
Uptt:
Cmrreimcy
-
Russians
Are
Demanding
$20,000
Jfi.llOO
FISH
RESEARCH
BOARD
IS
HERE
Inspection
J
I
rains
TODAY
LONGEST
DAY
OF
YEAR
Summer
officially
came
to
Prince
Rupert
at
5:11
a.m.
today,
Pacific
Daylight
Time,
i
with
the
arival
of
the
summer
solstice.
Today,
therefore,
should
have
had
the
longest
period
of
sunlight
of
any
day
of
the
year.
However,
the
sun
was
obscured
here
by
heavy
$15,011(1
,.'
.i
So
United
States
Counters
By
Moving
Supplies
Into
Berlin
By
Means
of
Aircraft
BERLIN
(CP)
Supply
trains
for
Berlin's
10,000
TTnitpH
Statps
rpsidpnts
arp
at
a
standstill
todav
be
ij.ooo
Arriving
Tonight
For
Inspection
of
Skeena
River
Watershed
To
make
a
first
hand
Inspection
of
salmon
research
operations
in
the
Skeena
River
area
and
carry
on
other
observations
in
this
district
in
regard
to
matters
of
particular
interest
to
the
cause
of
the
United
States-Russian
deadlock
result
mist
and
low
cloud.
ature
was
also
below
Prince
board,
members
of
the
Fisheries
$10,000
ing
from
currency
reforms.
The
Kussian
commander
in
Germany
said
that
the
money
reforms
completed
the
division
of
Germany.
United
States
freight
trains
lio.ooo
Research
Board
of
Canada
and
accompanying
officials
are
ar
riving
in
the
city
by
the
Prin
cess
Adelaide
this
evening
from
Vancouver.
They
will
proceed
to
to
Berlin
must
pass
the
Soviet
one
and
United
States
authorities
last
night
stopped
running
them
rather
than
submit
their
Lakelse
and
elsewhere
in
the
in
terior
by
aircraft
tomorrow
af
Cairo
Blasts,
25
Killed
CAIRO
(01)
Twenty-five
persons
were
killed
and
fifty-four
ternoon
and
the
most
of
the
$5,000
cargoes
to
inspection.
Supplies
$5,000
party
will
go
East
by
train
Fri
nil
vN
IM.I-
umt.z
Rupert's
usual
balmy
standard.
The
advent
of
summer
Is
marked
by
astronomic
calculation
when
the
earth's
axis
reaches
its
closest
angle
toward
the
sun
at
the
north
pole.
Winter
solstice,
conversely,
is
when
the
north
pole
is
angled
farthest
from
Old
Sol.
Ani;le
of
variation
is
about
23
degrees.
The
hipher
the
latitudes,
the
greater
the
number
of
hours
of
daylight
during
the
summer
months.
At
the
solstice,
the
sun
rises
at
Prince
Rupert
about
4
a.m.
setting
about
9:30.
day
night.
Engagements
will
in
for
the
Americans
in
Berlin
are
now
being
flown
in.
The
Russ-
,
ians
said,
the
inspection
was
injured
Sunday
by
two
heavy
explosions
in
houses
in
the
Jew
necessary
to
keep
smugglers
from
bringing
worthless
cur
ish
quarter
of
Cairo's
plcturesqve
clude
a
meeting
with
a
delegation
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Chamber
of
Commerce
including
Acting
President
G.
R.
S.
Blackaby,
Secretary
E.
T.
Applewhaite
and
T.
B.
Black,
a
meeting
of
the
Skeena
River
advisory
board
to
rency
into
the
Soviet
zone
and
Berlin
where
the
present
mark
bazaar
district.
The
blasts
were
at
first
believed
to
have
been
from
the
accidental
detonation
of
fire
ITALIAN
THRONGS
PAY
LAST
TRIBUTE
TO
"BUZZ"
BEURLING
The
funeral
of
George
to
for
the
new
state
of
Israel,
provoked
"Buzz"
Beurling
Canadian
war
ace
killed
en
route
fight
a
spontaneous
tribute
from
hundreds
of
Italian
Jews
who
followed
the
casket
to
the
.cemetery
in
Rome
after
impressive
services.
Killed
with
the
veteran
pilot
was
Leonard
Cohen,
another
Canadian
ace
of
World
War
II.
'
morrow
and
a
luncheon
with
the
is
still
good.
The
old
reichsmark
loses
its
worth
in
United
States,
British
and
French
zones
under
currency
reform
begun
by
the
works
explosives
but
some
doubt
has
since
developed
in
regard
to
Cork-ry
$
2.00
!1
Mary
and
Margaret
nan
5.00
fcr
Glinn
500
jjfilockdale
5.00
I
Rpert
Ladies
Bowl-
I
League
18.00
.Boss
Richardson
5.00
local
fishing
industry.
Visiting
Fisheries
Research
that
and
some
believe
the
blasts
may
have
been
set
off.
three
western
powers
to
fight
The
summer
ppriod
will
end
at
8:22
Pacific
Daylight
Time,
September
22.
Board
members
are:
inflation
and
the
black
market.
Dr.
G.
B.
Reid,
O.B.E.,
Pro
CANADIAN
COAL
Sixtv
old
marks
are
being
re
Republicans
Expecting
fessor
of
Bacteriology,
Queen-University,
accompanied
by
Mrs
GOING
TO
JAPAN
iplla
BarUctt
5
0.'
placed
by
forty
new
units
to
be
ATOMIC
POWER
DEVELOPMENT
known
as
the
Deutsche
mark.
Reid.
the
me
value
Value
of
which
will
be
made
MONTREAL
i
S.
Beckow,
head
of
a
Montreal
export
firm,
Halibut
Sales
American
Onah,
14,000,
20.70c,
19.50c
and
To
Name
Next
President
Dr.
J.
R.
Dymond,
O.B.E.,
vice-
ATHENS
fi-It
isesUmated
l
week.
,
'
rhnirmnn
chairman,
Pmfpssnr
rroiessor
oi
of
Bvstem-J
system
tt.
.
-tV-SUfMwHTiexE
slugged
70
000
Greek
troops
said
Friday"
that
his
firm
had
atic
Biology,
University
of
Tor
their
wav
into
the
northern
contracted
to
sbip
100,000
tons
CAL
GIRL
ADUATES
FROM
KMAL
SCHOOL
M.-
Janet
Rochester,
a
foi"
r
local
Rirl,
this
week
gradu-Urom
the
provincial
normal
Plndus
Mountains
today
in
an
of
coal
to
Japan
for
use
in
the
Momentous
Convention
Opens
In
onto.
Professor
D.
L.
Thompson,
Professor
of
Biochemistry,
McGill
effort
to
smash
the
communist
Japanese
steel
Industry,
ihe
coal
is
to
be
shipped
to
Van
10.50c,
Storage.
Canadian
Belllna,
12.000,
0.200,
1860c
and
10.00c,
Atlin.
Olympia
No.
II,
15,000,
20.20c,
rebellion.
Six
divisions,
backed
Asks
Lower
Taxes
On
Haunted
House
TWICKENHAM,
Eng.
Bert
University-
by
planes
and
artillery,
Jumped
couver
before
the
end
of
June.
Professor
I.
M.
Fraser,
Dean
of
off
last
night
in
the
greatest
offensive
of
the
long
civil
war.
Key
has
advised
the
Bedford
Philadelphia
Today
Dewey
and
Vandenburg
Favored
PHILADELPHIA
(CP)
Republican
party
today
opened
their
national
convention
in
an
atmosphere
of
certainty
that
they
are
going
to
select
nf
t.Vip
United
States.
After
sixteen
the
Faculty
of
Science,
Univer
shire
Appeals
Committee
that
CALGARY
CAFES
BOOST
PRICES
sity
of
Saskatchewan.
Mrs.
Fraser
will
accompany
him.
the
taxes
on
his
house
should
George
Slater,
until
recently
18.60c
and
10.00c,
Pacific.
Co-op
Robert
B,
24,000;
Mae
West,
14.000;
Clipper
No.
2,
19,000;
Sea
Maid,
30,500.
41
at
Vancouver
"with
dis-Ken"
according
to
word
re-5c,
by
friends
here.
She
has
fti-d
a
position
with
the
fcuver
school
board.
Miss
Ifster
is
the
daughter
of
jAgnes
Rochester
of
Narv-fcrive,
Vancouver.
manager
of
the
Superior
Store
O.
F.
MacKenzie,
of
Nova
be
reduced
because
it
is
full
xif
ghosts.
He
does
not
live
in
the
et.nARY
With
the
increas
here,
left
by
todays
plane
for
Scotia,
representative
of
the
east
coast
fishing
industry.
TT
...Knon
1-1
n
nllVtC
f
'
A
llfftl
1
i
n
ft
The
place
has
a
repu-
vears
in
the
political
wilderness,
the
party
believes
-
r
il
l
f'.lJ
An
ing
cost
of
produce
and
general
food
stuffs,
restaurants
in
Calgary
advanced
prices
June
17.
locate.
Mrs.
Slater
is
remaining
j
tation
that
Key
says
keeps
i
-
il.
n
V.nt.f
limn
lnttrarlnrr
Itc
VolllA
Q
C
Q
1tlfCA
Of
that
whoever
they
picK
irom
tne
large
neiu
wm
uc-
font.
feat
Truman
Truman.
.
K.
F..
Harding
of
Prince
-Ru-Dert
is
also
t
member
of
the
in
ine
ciiy
iui
anui
i
nic
wwhhb
-
r
-
longer.
property.
board.
1ERICAN1SM
CAPITAL
CITY
Governor
Thomas
E.
Dewey
oi"
j
New
York
is
still
the
favorite
although
he
may
not
be
able
to
Dr.
J.
H.
L.
Johnstone,
head
Douglas
Fours
May
Be
Grounded
MOUNT
CARMEL,
Pa.
)
It
is
not
known
whether
DC
4's
will
be
grounded
again
following
the
of
the
Department
of
Physics,
II
.
,TI..'
1...
TI
I
ifr.
ALMOST
RAZED
uainousie
umversiuj,
iuuica.
Baseball
Scores
SUNDAY
National
Cincinnati
4-1,
Boston
5-4
St.
Louis
7-4,
New
York
2-6
rhirairn
6.
Brooklvln
3
Miss
Nora
Grimes,
Honorary
command
a
majority.
Harold
Stassen
is
second
and
Senator
Robert
Taft
of
Ohio
is
held
Secretary
of
the
Board,
Ottawa.
COMMUNISM
pNIPEG-P.
T.
R-
Pugsley.
jksor
of
accountancy
a1
.l
University,
was
elected
Joent
of
the
Junior
Cham-:f
Commerce
of
Canada
at
k:mual
convention
here
Sat-
CASTRIES,
St
Louis
This
West
Indies
insular
capital
was
all
but
wiped
out
yesterday
by
a
fire
which
ran
uncontrolled
Through
Train
Service
Being
Resumed
Tonight
After
Flood
For
the,
first
time
since
the
floods
of
the
May
24
week-end
washed
out
the'
tracks
at
several
points
through
trains
to
and
from
the
East
out
of
Prince
Rupert
will
be
running
after
tonight
on
the
Cana-riian
National
Princp
Runert-Jasner
line.
First
train
Other
members
of
the
partv
are
Dr.
A.
G.
Huntsman,
Toronto,
consulting
director
and
editor
oi
(disastrous
crash
near
neie
j
Thursday
when
a
four-engined
;
United
Air
Lines
plane
hit
a
power
line
and
disintegrated
in
I
flames,
killing
all
forty-three
persons
on
board.
through
its
business
section
and
then
into
the
residential
areas,
third
leading
contender.
Arthur
Vandenburg
of
Michigan
might
be
strong
in
the
event
of
a
compromise
being
necessary.
Speaker
Joseph'
Martin
of
Massachusetts
says
he
wijl
certainly
accept
the
nomination
if
the
Board's
publications;
Dr
Pittsburgh
0-7,
Philadelphia
9-5
American
Philadelphia
3-0,
Cleveland
4-10
New
York
4-6.
St
Louis
2-2
leaving
a
thousand
persons
R.
E.
Foerster,
Director,
Nanaimo
homeless
There
were,
nowever,
atati.
nr
uPni
mr
no
recorded
casualties
The
fire
7.
''.Z',
broke
out
l
i
in
a
tailor
n.
shpo
t.,
Low
ter,
uirecwr,
Vancouver
jaijcii-
it
is
offered.
for
the
East
will
leave
tonight
or
Tuesday
morning
and
first
train
from
the
Eastj
'
will
cqme
through
Tuesday
night.
president
Truman
The
highway
which
leads
from
.
.
.
.
,GoeS
Up
Into
Air
Prince
Rupert
to
Prince
George
Although
it
seems
general
that
there
will
be
victory
for
impossible
to
fight
the
flames.
chard,
Biological
Station,
Nanaimo;
and
Dr.
Farris
Neave,
Biological
Station,
Nanaimo.
MINING
COMPANY
IS
LOSING
MONEY
I
VANCOUVER
Pioneer
iGold
Mines
had
a
net
loss
of
$156
793
in
1947,
it
was
shown
I
o
thn
wrek-end
in
the
directors'
X
convention
heard
Paul
i't,
president
of
the
United
f--
Junior
Chamber
of
Com-I
K
'.
appeal
for
an
adoption
in
4:1a
of
Americanism
rather
A
Communism.
I
.
k
McKinnon
and
two
chikl-iiirc
sailing
tonight
on
the
ess
Adelaide
for
Vancou-tiiroulc
to
Kimberley
to
join
I
McKinnon
who
recently
If
l
south.
Dewey,
seldom
has
the
opening
of
a
national
party
convention
held
such
widespread
uncertain
MEAT
SHORT
AS
LOCAL
TIDES
(Standard
Time)
ty
as
to
the
man
who
will
be
and
thence
to
Vancouver
will
boj
guN
y
ALLEY,
Idaho
Presl-reopened
by
the
end
of
this
dent
Trurnan,
during
his
visit
week,
the
public
works
depart-
to
thls
western
holiday
resort,
ment
has
announced.t
1
did
a
nttie
political
fence
mend,-
STRIKE
KEEPS
ON
resulted
from
in-
1
rnnnrt,
The
loss
nominated
to
contest
the
presidential
election.
'
creased
wage
and
material
costs
LONDON,
W-The
number
of
'luesaay,
June
Annriinpenipnt.
mat
reeuiar
i
i
1
"nn
foot
nn
"rwii-
i
despite
higher
prices
forDumoi.
Stassen,
the
former
governor
London
port
strikers
rose
to
High
:u.
ieci
14
136
18.4
ICft
mnnn
i-
1
-
rl.mlnroc-
frnm
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
-
lllg
III
IV.
IIAJC
v.vv
'
-
trains
would
be
running
again
lar
Mountain'
in
one
of
the
of
Minnesota,
has
farsightedly
within
the
next
twenty-four
reserved
the
most
strategic
spot
the
West
India
Dock
and
Cold
Low
8:09
18
fee.
.
....
......
nn
.nD
O
n
4
chair
lifts
used
by
ski
jumpers
from
all
parts
of
the
world.
Boston
8,
Detroit
3
Washington
5-4,
Chicago
8-1
Pacific
Coast
Oakland
4-5,
San
Diego
3-4
Sacramento
0-4,
Hollywood
9-5
Seatle
8-5,
San
Francisco
3-4
Western
International
Vancouver
7-4,
Wenatchee
7-4
Tacoma
6-5,
Yakima
2-4
Spokane
13-10,
Victoria
11-1
Bremerton
9-7,
Salem
7-3
SATURDAY
National
Pittsburgh
7,
Philadelphia
6
St
Louis
1,
New
York
10
Chicago
5,
Brooklyn
2
Cincinnati
0,
Boston
5
American
Washington
5,
Chicago
9
Philadelphia
0,
Cleveland
4
New
York
10,
St
Louis
5
Boston
9,
Detroit
7
Pacific
Coast
,UU
O.u
i
.
vii
for
his
headquarters
right
off
Storage
joined
in
the
stoppage.
hours
came
following
a
weekend
during
which
track
repair
crews
made
rapid
progress
in
Meetings
ignored
appeals
by
the
main
lobby
of
the
convention
headquarters
hotel.
THE
WEATHER
Cannery
All
Out
For
Flood
Relief
getting
the
line
in
passable
con-
....
'
S
1
kn.f
tV,of
ViaH
trades
union
officials
that
the
men
return
to
work
and
union
representatives
were
shouted
I
-
r
fir
anion
again,
me
w
n.v
Synopsis)
northwesterly
flow
of
cool
down.
been
previously
expected
was
The
Canadlan
Legn
has
that
trains
would
be
getting'
.
over
to
the
B
c
Flood
BIG
FOREST
FIRE
will
nl
la
nincinrr
fnntinilPfi
London
meat
markets
Vtava
rr
fnll
hiinfc
nn
t.hpir
last
chnmoru
tiroat.hor
in
Illl
KPfTtkmS
AT
WHITEHORSE
A
S
A
througn
w
lerratc
"j
iaiuqj
VKI
.
w
WVV-.
'
reserves
after
being
already
re-
0f
the
province
except
along
the
All
available
u
Emergency
Fund
a
cheque
for
$263.00
received
from
Carlisle
Cannery
on
the
Skeena
River.
This
is
a
100
percent
subscrip
WIIITEHORSE
"
three
miles
west
of
Kitwanga
and
past
the
worst
wash-out
towards
the
end
of
this
week.
UJf
UK
OHmt
BUUtllCLU
lUanv
,v.
men
and
equipment
have
bean
second
week.
There
is
meat
In
clearing.
Scattered
thunder-
pressed
into
service
to
fight
a
Now
it
is
expected
trains
will
be
tion
by
the
crew
of
forty-ona
ao
the
ships
at
tne
oocks
dui
it
storms
are
expected
in
me
m-cannot
be
unloaded.
terior
regions
in
the
afternoon
forest
fire
of
major
proportions
that
cannery
and
is
indicative
able
to
pass
there
by
tomorrow
on
the
Alaska
itignway
norm
It
was
thought
possible
that'and
evening.
A
storm
is
de
of
the
sympathy
felt
by
the
afternoon.
t
1
rTM.:..
neftn
e.
Koon
11
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.
i
(
mm,
a
ll,
'
veloping
about
buu
nines
on
me
OI
Ilt?ie.
lllia
iia.o
uvvu
me
ttuveiiuneuo
lillKilb
uiurc
i
It
is
possible
that
trains
will
Queen
Charlottes
and
is
expect-1
fishing
Industry
for
the
tiooa
sufferers
and
sets
a
splendid
example
to
those
who
have
yet
have
to
run
slowly
over
some
having
its
longest
hot
spell
in
today
and
order
troops
to
un-ycars.
load
perishables
from
the
ships.
spots
for
a
few
days.
ed
to
give
rain
along
the
north
coast
tonight
spreading
to
the
Oakland
3,
San
Diego
2
Sacramento
6,
Hollywood
1
Seattle
2,
San
Francisco
3
Los
Angeles
6,
Portland
7
Western
International
Spokane
3.
Victoria
2
Tacoma
18,
Yakima
8
Bremerton
10,
Salem
'9
Vancouver
12,
Wenatchee
1
to
subscribe.
With
the
resumption
of
train
southern
coastal
regions
service,
it
is
announced
the
em
IRISH
NOBLEMAN
Austerity
Excise
Taxes
Are
Being
ergency
air
service
which
has
been
operated
by
Canadian
Pacific
Air
Lines
from
Prince
Ru-
DIES
IN
VICTORIA
Forecast)
Queen
Charlottes
and
North
Coast
Cloudy
with
scattered
showers
today.
Tuesday,
over
vir
r.iraud
of
Terrace
and
I'KiLJkahih
Lu
CaJavaI
nwnnmnnl
VICTORIA
CT)
Hon.
Edmund
Dert
to
Terrace
and
Smlthers
Lewis
Galley
of
Bablne
arrived
II
Illl
Uf
If
11
ICUCIfll
UUWCI
IIIIIGIIl
Burke-Roche.
aged
89,
member
will
be
discontinued.
Skeena
Air
n
t.hp
filtv
bv
speedboat
from
of
a
noble
Irish
family,
died"
on
cast
with
intermittent
rain.
Winds
light
today
and
southeasterly
(20
m.p.h.)
Tuesday.
Transport
planes,
on
a
charter
service,
will
be
still
available
nn
river
Saturday
afternoon,
Saturday.
He
was
the
youngest
I
rn
tracks
trail
off
having
been
using
the
boat
on
son
of
the
third
earl
of
Fermay
however.
During
the
railway
tie
OTTAWA
(CP)
The
government
has
decided
to
withdraw
the
special
25
excise
tax
imposed
on
a
broad
list
of
goods
last
November
and
is
now
sitting
to
determine
when
the
decision
should
be
put
into
effect,
the
Canadian
Press
learned
authoritatively
today.
the
river
for
some
time
in
con
up
flying
from
here
to
the
interior
has
become
quite
popu
I
Little
change
in
temperature.
.Lows
tonight
and
highs
Tues-I
day
At
Port
Hardy
50-58,
Mas-jsett
50-58,
Prince
Rupert
52-58.
nection
with
fisheries
research
and
was
born
In
Country
Cork.
He
was
a
prospector
for
the
last
forty
years.
RASTER
POURS
INTO
V
AW
rum-
-
aUowing
I
e
embankment
which
was
pierced
SlfS
The
c
0
ho6
waters
to
swamp
Vanport,
Oregon.
m
completely
destroyed.
14
de:
fm
residents
was
andae
checked
been
Uabou,40
years
ago,
had
previously
lUretl
stronc
enousli
to
withstand
the
flood.
lar.
work.
They
will
be
returning
to
the
interior
on
the
next
train.