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u-
AXXIX,
NO.
68.
prince
RUPERT.
B.
C,
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
22,
1950
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Pacific
Fish
s
p
aim
sued
ew
cities
lireafcy
gve
Lie
Calls
For
Twenty-year
Peace
Program
Conservation
And
Sales
Stimulation
Are
Sought
War
J;
OTTAWA
(CP)
Fisheries
Minister
Mayhew
:
said
today
that
the
government
hopes
to
soon
ratify
t
langer
,
i
-
-
-v
a
newiy-signed
conservation
treaty
lor
Atlantic
waters
and
disclosed
a
similar
treaty
for
Pacific
fishing
areas.
is
under
consideration.
..Z
.
Addressing
the
first
day's
ses-
N'GTON
Try-
cretary
-
gen-'
;
STREET
CAR
CRASH
j
VANCOUVER
Eight
passengers
were
.
injured
today
and
20
shaken
up
in
a
street
car
United
Na-
OA
irto
Arms
To
Formosa
sion
of
the
Fisheries
Council
of
i
Canada
meeting,
he
outlined
to
I
the
delegates
.steps
he
is
tak'yiT
j
or
hopes
to
implcmen:,
In
:
research,
conservation
and
stimu-llation
of
sales.
'
t
ram
to
relax"
1
"tensions''
the
cold
war
,
,
...
.
.
.........
"
ill
I
ill
nlMMi!
periodic
moling!.
Canadian
Ship
Leaves
With
War
Supplies
For
NationalisU
VANCOUVER
CP)
The
Mon-I
treal-owned
freighter
Argovan
I
sailed
from
here
today
with
war
Reiterates
His
Story
:ninisti'r.s
or
even
TUDOR
PLANE
CRASH
WORST
-IN
CIVIL
AVIATION
HISTORY
This
Avro
Tudor
II
is
the
same
type
as
the
craft
that
crashed
near
Cardiff,
Wabs,
with
a
loss
of
75
lives.
The
plane,
which
carried
a
crew
of
five,
and
78
passengers,
had
been
chartered
to
carry
sports
fans
from
an
International
rugby
match
In
Belfast,
back
to
Llandough,
Wales,
across
the
bay
from
Cardiff.
The
plane
apparently
nose-dlvcd
Into
a
field
while
coming
In
for
a
landing.
It
Is
believed
to
be
the
vorst
air
disaster
in
history.
rr.mciits"
to
dls-
rsial
is.suc.s
Lie
dress
here:
"I
cb
world
can
safely
Unrest
in
Italy-
SHE
SAW
IT
TOO
the
Xir;.t
steps
on
collision
at
the
corner
of
Hastings
and
Seymour
j
in
downtown
Vancouver.
Plve
were
taken
to
hospital
and
others
were
treated
at
the
scene.
Injured
were
thrown
from
their
seats
when
a
;
westbound
No.
14
crashed
into
another
which
was
awaiting
a
traffic
light.
It,
in
turn,
ran
into
;
another.
Brake
failure
was
blamed
for
the
ac-;
cident.
In
hospital
are
Robert
T.
Whiessiel,
Miss
Bea
Woodward,
Charles
Donaldson,
Mrs.
Martha
'
Harris
and
Miss
Lois
Grey.
ARSENAL
WINS
LONDON
Arsenal
today
defeated
Chelsea
'
1
to
0
in
overtime
to
win
their
way
into
next
month's
English
Football
Association
Cup
soccer
.
final
at
Wembley
The
game,
played
before
64,-'
482
fans
at
Tottenham
Hotspurs
Park,
was
a
re-
play
of
last
Saturday's
2
-
all
thriller.
The
win-
ninggoal
was
scored
by
Right
Winger
Cox
in
the
-;
fourteenth
minute
of
overtime.
v.
RIGHTS
FOR
CHINESE
;
OTTAWA
The
federal
government
today
.
supplies
for
the
Chinese
Nationalist
stronghold
of
Formosa,
j
Capt.
F.
Delaney
of
Vancouver,
'
master
or
the
vessel,
a
10,000-tnn
freighter,
said
the
ship
will
unload
75
surplus
United
States
tanks
on
the
north
coast
of
the
Island
ni'suliatloii
and
Ttic
(lunger
of
an
VANCOUVER
Kf
Story
that
Blanche
Feme
Fisher,
45-ycar-okl
spinster,
fled
from
his
car
after
an
hour
In
the
back
seat,'
was
reiterated
by
Frederick
Rodger
Ducharme
yesterday
In
Assize
Court.
He
is
charged
with
.
the
1
sex
slaying
of
Miss
FLsher
whosa
body
was
found
in
False
Creek,
November
9,
close
to
Ducharme'
i
float
house
home.
I
Ducharme's
story
Is
that
Miss
Fisher
ran
barefooted
she
had
ComniunistS
Ward
"Flying
Saucer"
Report'
n
,A
rt
Corroborated
by
City
Woman
ilinualiun
of
the
;s
aco
of
the
uLoiu
ami
.rogen
aomo
is
wo
weapons
Gas
And
Oil
Amendments
.
.
ROME
(?
Heavily
armed
pol-
I
STOCKS
lce
and
trops
today
moved!
juiiu.ion
l.u
i.ui
1
1
swiftly
to
preserve
order
as
a
i
Communist-called
general
strike
'
left
her
shoes
in
his
car
through
a
debris-ridden
culley
to
Kitsil-
VICTORIA
'CP
I
-
Amend-
Another
city
resident
added
her
name
to
the
long
list
of
North
Americans
reporting
the
sight
of
"flying
saucers."
Hubert
Ward,
a
local
marine
surveyer
first
stated
he
sighted
the
mysterious
object
Friday
at
5
p.m.
and
yesterday
Mrs.
Thor
Soilien,
426
Fourth
Avenue
East
corroborated
his
report.
"At
first
I
thought
It
was
one
of
those
balloons
used
here
during
the
war,"
she
said.
"I
thought
it
came
from
the
air
base
at
Seal
Cove,
so
I
didn't
look
any
longer."
,
-
She
described
the
thing
as
long
and
probably
flat.
"Its
color
wa
black,"
she
added.
,
ments
to
the
Petroleum
and
Na-
FaLse
Crecki
ano
BrWgc
over
tural
Gas
Act,
following
closely
,
Th
.lllpv
,s
.
wasteland
of
ivnrr
'
i
closed
factories
and
disrupted
r,n
transportation
In
many
parts
of
the
pattern
of
the
Alberta
rcgu-
1
rotting
boats,
timbers
and
discarded
metals
and
lln
eaxuiw
-
latiens
were
introduced
in
the1.
021'
'
Italy
Minor
clashes
between
j
05
(
demonstrators
and
police
marked
j
Legislature
yesterday
to
become
effective
on
a
cate
to
be
set
by
was
asked
to
repeal
the
present
Chinese
immigra-
The
case
was
expectecli
to
go
to
the
jury
today
follow.
ng
-
the
the
early
hours
or
the
strike
and
I
M.wjruiiiB
io
inrs.
ooinen,
me
saucer
appeared
to
oe
moving
t
,
4,
y.,.,r
aid
..
.:,.
pv,;npJO
hUM
th
tv,o
Same
cumo
imrmo-rntinn
slowly
or
hovering
in
the
direction
of
the
CJ
.Railway
station,
-4
lminlrd510n.
"
7
:
'
.
,
,
..charge
of
the.
judge
MA,
JusUcc
"
.
(
One
or
the
amendments
f
re-i.
.
.
-
.
ngnts
as
tnose
enjoyed
bv
Europeans,
lhe
re
A.
M.
Mansos,
and
the
summa-
The
object
was
still
there,
she
said,
when
she
moved
away
from
f
.
.
.
.
.
.
......
th.
M,l.l,
c?u
-'
:
i
'
i
i
1
duces
the
minimum
unit
for
tions
by
Crown
and
Defence
wic
nmuuw.
one
uiuii
i,
kiiow
me
aireciion
oi
ingnt.
.
r
rental
purposes
from
15.000
to
'
.
counsel.
J
10.000'
acres.
However,
provision!
Aiier
reading
about
it
in
the
Daily
News,"
she
remarked.
"I
thought
what
I
saw
must
have
been
the
flying
saucer."
'is
made
or
rentals
on
areas
oi
.aid
less
than
10,000
acres.
Fire
Destroys
1.30
.29
.22
.01
3
25
.03
2.05
.03
1
14
.32
12',2
.12
0034
.04
.03
No
Trace
Of.
Men
on
Floe
THE
WEATHER
j
Synopsis
j
j
Weather
conditions
whjchl
Public
VVorhs
For
Province'
I
Hospital
lYing
i
yesterday
gave
some
promise
fori
I
sunny
skies
have
taken
a
turn,
several,
persons
were
reported
arrested
but,
generally,
the
atmosphere
appeared
comparative'
ly
calm
In
Rome
and
Northern
industrial
cities.
Union
leaders
In
both
Milan
land
Genoa
arc
also
reported
to
be
considering
a
general
strike
call
as
a
further
protest
against
new
government
restrictions
on
political
activity
1
Crowds
of
workers,
many
carrying
red
banners,
poured
Into
.Milan
Square
yesterday
snarling
traffic
and
delaying
street
cars
and
busses.
j
The
demonstrators
stopped
one
;car
entering
the
city,
delaying
it
'
for
an
hour.
j
Large
forces
of
police
were
on
1
guard
but
took
no
action
to
dis-i
perse
the
crowd
which
thinned
I
after
a
speech
In
the
main
square
!
by
Communist
leader,
Oulsseppe
i
for
the
worse
today.
Except
for
j
SYDNEY
N.
S.
Uajpital
offi-Prince
Rupert,
showers
were
clals
today
evacuated
194
mental
I
iairly
general
over
the
province
patients
from
the
Cape
Breton
and
a
storm
of
large
size
forming
County
Hospital
shortly
before
j
over
the
ocean
will
bring
heavy
lone
wing
of
'.he
hospital
was
re-
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska
(!
No
trace'
vws
found
today
of
three
men
reported
to
have
been
drifting
to
sea
on
an
Ice
floe
in
Cook
Inlet.
Today's
fruitless
search
No
Borrowing
Bill
InlrodueetU';
In
l.rsiMat'.ire
by
Minister
j
Of
Finance
VICTORIA
i
CD
--An
$86,000,-
'
1
lain
and
gale
winds
to
the
coast
stroyed
by
fire.
No
injuries
were
,
4
10
.20
was
parlicpated
ifi
by
air
rescue
!
0C0
loan
bill
lor
roads
paving.
bridges,
ferries
and
culverts
was
Introduced
by
the
minister
of
fi-
I
service
planes'
and
a
number
of
private
craft.
No
one
has
been
reported
miss-
nance.
Hon.
Herbert
Anscomb,
ing
In
the
area.
,
!
aclie
Premier.
,
overnight.
Tomorrow
will
be
reported.
The
flames
sUll.iiwn-showcry
and
cool
in
all
sections
aced
a
new
building
a
scant
12
of
B.
C.
feet
away
frtm
the
destroyed
Forecast
structure.
The
fire
wa.s
repoited
North
Coast
Region
Intermit-
-Vo
have
started
when
an
elderly
tent
rain
today
and
again
Thurs-
male
patient
put
a
burning
clg-
'
day.
Continuous
rain
overnight,
arette
In
a
ventilator.
y
Little
change
In
temperature.'
t
'
A
helicopter
was
dispatched
'
spread
overa
period
or
seven
years,
it
calls
lor
$10,000,000
for
1.50
.51
7.10
1.15
1175
.10
1.G5
4.70
.37
'a
.05V2
10.25
Albcrgantl.
,
yesterday
to
investigate-the
re-
Many
workers
returned
to
the
port
but
its
search
was
cut
short
iTran.sCanada
Highway
work.
I
To
meet
borrowing,
the
three
Southeast
gales,
35
mules
peri
n"A!
TirVF
factories
but
did
not
resume
,
by
nightfall.
hour)
today,
ircrcasing
to
southeast
gales'
50mph
this
evening.
Thursday,
March
23,
1950
percent
gasoline
tax,
assumed
by
the
province,
will
be
applied
solely
for
interest
and
debt
work.
.
1
Searchlight
beams
from
an
j
The
workers
are
protesting
the
Army
poj-Cable
battery
were
new
decrees
Issued
Saturday
in-
placed
along
the
shore
and
swep'
J
creasing
the
national
police
force
the
fast-moving
pack
without
Jand
authorizing
local
prefects
to
success.
(
jban
political
meetings
for
the,
Eariy
yesterday
passengers
Southwest
winds,
25
mph
to-j
High
3.38
morrow.
Lows
tonight
and
hihs
16:16
tomorrow
Port
Hardy,
Sandspit
.
Low
10:16
and
Prince
Ruoert,
38
and
45
21:59
19
8
feH
ltQJect
5.3
feet
8.1'
feet
uroiito
quest
was
made
in
a,
brief
presented
to
Citizenship
Minister
Harris
by
a
delegation
representing
the
Committee
for
the
Repeal
of
the
Chinese,
immigration
law.
The
brief
emphasized
that
no
requqst
was
made
for
iraiementajtion
of
a
policy
of
exittnslv'e
Oriental
immigration.
K
f
CATHOLIC
SCHOOL
TAXES
:'j
lCTOKlj-xThi.
povinciahgovernment
was
.
yesterday
asked
to
free
Catholics
from
paying
taxes
for
public
schools
while
at
the
same
time
maintaining
their
own
separate
schools.
A
delegation
of
Catholic
laymen
presented
the
brief
to
the
cabinet,
outlawing
taxation
reforms
as
"justice
demands.''
CAIXXJ
AN,
RETIRES
LONDON
Sir
Alexander
Cadogan,
Britain's
"perfect
diplomat,"
is
retiring
from
the
post
as
permanent
British
representative
on
the
United
Nations
Security
Council,
the
Foreign
Office
announced
yesterday.
Sir
Alexander,
aged
66,
will
be
succeeded
by
Sir
Gladwyn
Jebb
who,
at
50,
is-
the
leading
Foreign
Office
expert
on
the
United
Nations.,
,
CONFESSES
MURDER
TERRE
HAUTE,
Indiana
X
slender,
greying
barber,
w
ho
told
police
he
was
too
little
to
carry
the
body
of
a
big
man,
admitted
last
night
the
butcher
slaying
of
a
window
washer
in
Terre
Haute,
Indiana.
Detective
Clint
Seward
said
65-year-old
Clarence
Taylor
broke
down
after
22
hours
of
questioning
and,
between
sobs,
told
u
grisly
tale
of
how
he
killed
George
Willis
Baldwin..
The
detective
said
that
Taylor
related
that
he
killed
Baldwin
with
shots
from
a
,38-calibre
pistol;
ELECTION
SOUGHT
BONNE,
Germany
The
West
German
government
today
asked
the
four
occupation
powers
to
hold
elections
throughout
Germany
for
a
constituent
assembly.
Burly
Casanova
Adventures
With
Women
next
three
months.
aboard
a
coastal
Anchoragc-
The
Italian
government
met
whlttier
railway
train
reported
the
strike
challenge
today
with
wnat
appeared
to
be
three
men
massing
of
police
strength
that
standing
on
drifting
ice
near
Fire
put
three
thousand
persons
under
island
in
the
inlet,
arrest
In
Rome
and
rigidly
sup-
Hclicopters
and
prlvate
planes,
pressed
demonstrations
through-
f,ying
as
,QW
fts
30
ecl
of
lhe
out
the
country.
There
appeared
,,onLinucd
Uic
scarch
today
dian
;s
...
,
.08
.is
.29
12V
.13
9325
1.07
.50
.30
5.00
6.15
.33
.30
to
be
only
scattered
violence
as
occasional
seals.
I
feut
8polled
only
1
a
result
of
the
12-hour
country-
Knife
I
wide
general
strike
called
by
the
,
Communist-led
Confederation
of
j
Labor.
j
Yesterday
Italy's
giant
Com
'
CAMBRIDGE,
Mass.
0j
A
burly
mail-order
Casanova,
charged
with
having
at
least
six
wives,
j
ruefully
blamed
his
plight
yes-!
tcrtlay
on
"crooked,
scheming
women
who
played
me
for
a
'.sucker."
!
"I
am
a
man
broken
in
spirit.!
Women
fleeced
me,"
said
49-ycar
j
old
Clarence
W.
Buchanan,
Jailed
on
polygamy
and
fraud
charges..)
when
he
failed
to
produce
$20,000
Fire
Destroys
R.C.
Community
,
ftp
-t
0
I
VJ
si
11
v.
:
$
munist-led
General
Labor
Federation
called
for
the
country-wide
general
strike
In
protest
against
the
new
government's
police
measures.
The
Confederation
executive
Instructed
its
secretariat
to
decide
on
the
date
and
dura
.0512
I
.oo
u
.00
12
.0514
.55
.
.08
.
.04
.
.50
.I7',i
.
3.05
.55
.
3.05
.
.34i2
.
1.4G
NORTH
CUivifcKLAND,
R.
I.
A
fierce
$2,000,000
fire
last
niht
wrecked
lou:-
buildings
of
the
50-ycar
old
cisterclatv
community
or
our
Lady
of
the
Valley.
The
flames
destroyed
the
main
chapel,
the
infinn.uy,
the
guost
hjusc
and
the
monastery
where
Trap-
tion
of
the
srike.
Lake
..
bail.
I
He
pleaded
innocent.
j
"You
can
live
with
women
al!
your
life
and
never
know
them,"
said
the
20G-pound
six-footer
I
pensively.
"I
was
a
sap.
This
is
I
what
you
get."
N
Lake
.
"shutt,
Another
Plane
Wales
Crash
in
pist
Monks
'Wed
In
bare
cells.
Notes
showed
that
Clarence
69.00
Fifty
of
the
100
rosidenls
and
hac,
aclmil.crs
throughout
the'
1
1
guests
of
the
cloistered
order
(
world.
He
said
one
of
his
marital
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
McLeut',
j
O.
E.
Foster,
connected
with
after
a
three
weeks
trip
to
Van-
Jewelry
in
vancouvei
easiness
fro'L
concern
iiore
on
I
H
couver
and
Victoria,
returned
to
arrived
CARDIFF,
Wales
A
cargo
plane
on
,
a
test
flight
crashed
yesterday
near
Llandow,
South
Wales,
killing
the
pilot
and
three
passengers.
The
plane
crashed
to
the
ground
close
to
the
place
where
a
Tudor
air
airliner
crash-
were
nearly
trapped
as
the
j
ventures
had
been
with
a
wealthy
flames
sprouted
with
lightning
Calcutta
Indian
woman
who
speed
througii
the
four
stiuc-!
promised
among
other
things
tures,
I
to
knit
him
a
pair
of
socks.
the
Princt
the
the
city
from
the
south
on
Prince
Rupert
this
morning.
Ocean
Falls
aooard
'Rupert,
today.
HIS
THRONE
DEPENDS
ON
PARLIAMENT
Former
King
Leopold
of
Belgium
is
seen
strolling
with
his
second
wife,
the
Countess
De
Rethy
(
left
and
his
daughter,
Princess
Josephine,
at
Nice,
France,
where
he
is
vacationing
until
Belgian
Parliament
determines
whether
or
not
he
will
return
to
the
throne.
Observers
declare
his
marriage
to
the
countess,
a
commoner,
in
1941.
and
his
failure
lo
oppose
the
Nazis
during
the
war
will
probably
Influence
the
decision.
The
agricultural
north
of
the
little
lowland
nation,
.
ruled
since
1944
by
Leopold's
brother,
Regent
Prince
Charles,
favors
return
but
the
industrial
south
are
against
it.
I
1
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1.83
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3.75
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2.18
2.60
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3.55
!
od
March
12
with
a
death
toll
of
MUSIC
and
DRAMA
FESriVAL
-
yiti.tAkCete
80
out
of.
83
occupants
in
the
worst
disaster
In
commercial
aviation
history