r : ' humanity ' ' 14 1 1 sense and common should prevail. Prince Rupert Daily News Next iiioltieul, sworn lo secrecy, Ross was racing toward the of- fice, where forms were about to to to press. "Watt!" shouted! As I See It Monday. June 2, 1952 ray ... Reflects and Reminisces Even if we hnve to break off tlie truce tsriks altogether, and simply hold the line an Kwrea by whatever amount of force is necessary, that would be better tli.m to betray prisoners who are. sincerely on the UN side. Also, ven if U is true indeed, An Independent daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and 'Northern and Central British Columbia. Member of Cr-iiadisn Press Audit Bureau of Circulation! Canadian Daily Newspaper Association. Published by The Prince Rupert Dally News Limited J P. JilAOOR. President H O. PERRY. Vice-President Robertson, ''Canada hi 4nvaded." Much of Toronto refused to believe the news. Citizens burst in to call Ross a liar. The two other papers scoffed at the story. There was no telephone service and the povernment, controlling all telegraphs, refused to talk. especially if It Is true that the U.S. authorities vsed illegal! pressure .methods to get these i Subscription Rates: By carrier Per eek. Sac; per month tl 00; per year. HO 00 hv mail Per month. 75c: per year. 8 00. if hit putt Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. fa Small wonder people are flocking to Canada! Three gold bricks worth $80,000, sent from British Columbia to Sudbury iGnt.) 1ik-appeared from the railway station platform of the latter city. The .mail suck the pold was in uidnt even have a guard. men to identify themselves as anU -Communists, they are now doubly entitled to protection. Hut the real neon on Koie A fad lias been described as an pinicm wot, as rtule much I inspected. fr could you call it I something that (ues in ie era I iujd out tla- lber. j Need New Truce Team? Iiyhty are Kraduatim; this ' ontl tiM l eVil 1H't,tl UK- whole . " n CANADA XT A IU o S n tn-Koivan protest tnu.t talkls tl) Ulke U.S.A. about Sending' them out of the lipids of the . . USA. military monopoly. Tr our troops to Koje over-j 4. shadows something more instead -of sending British and Oiinanian troops to Koie to linpui lain. h,,.!,, ,-(.dffm tlie fiasco there Unless Britain and Canada wimid be more point in sending quickly exert their influence toMn a new yN loam ()f tru,.e neti'ieve an earlier and worse talkers to try for peace in U.S. blunder we could find our- i Korea selves in u large scale bottom-J Wllu M w,Kpw:t U) MMlt.rs, Burning of an ancient frame . month t tlie Kingstan Military building in Hurouto a Jew weeks ! Acaitetny. Tlvy will feei!ie wn-ago, keeps recalling a Jot of j nuajioiied id 'fioe.ru. And incident-cracicrja-k, if old though true! illy Mr. ClaKtun is tumuig out yarns. Tlie building, in 1806. was tijuig : to light with worth three a railway station and genera-, billion, live iiundiwd million. lions later a jnaikctini; waw-j house. Oih- June mornitiK. n Wi;iua.V AMITttKK young new.spapertmai. J. Koss . ,l,11IUlJ.1,tlw,i -,.rt(-l, ulf. Robei-tsou, louiicler of tlie Toronto Ti ligram, was weklng live news n.nd wandeiy-d into In,? station, tjittle did 1h- di-eam he Was i the -ve of Keoriiig tlie bigftt'Mt set-tip yet :eeii'(:ti-d hi Canada. anywhere. Moreover, of all The real crux of the trouble on Koje was the U.S. "screen- 1 bucty rf a fisili, lound on tiiis ei in t t; 1l rnine of wneertHin- j1y. SomctitiM'S though tlie non-j Himoercial species flves rlne i l,o iiKire or Jess eeulation, and jUiis of Hui-Ne, is always of Jn-: teist, ew-n if it Jias tinthing to ers the UN soldiers now entiuwed ing" of war prisoners. Saturday I m Korea Uie U.S. generals seem Night sums it up tersely alien I ck with the alleged ogopogo. Not (lie worst titled psychologically to get a truce. t Maybe, nobody on our side could pet a truce with the Communists in Korea. Maybe we have to fie.ht it out. wiliy-nilly. But at least some new faces it says: "The prisoners were screened in dubious circumstances which no outside authority could supervise . . . The ieast the UN powers can now do is to admit Public Parks Are Free Prince Rupert Rotary Club has completed THE another project of public service of which they can well be proud and for which they deserve recognition. After many years of being without one, the city is to have a tennis court. All that needs to be done now is the hard-topping, which is being paid for by RotarLuis. City public works will do the job. The tennis court has been built on park property, another st ep in the right direction in which we are making'good, sensible use of park lands. But we hope the parks board will go easy on a proposal to have the tennis court operated on a "payingprqposiUoa," with players restricted to the membership of a tennis club. After all, the courts are on park property, have been donated to the public by the generosity of a public service club for the benefit of the public. Can the public be rightfully charged admission to their own parks or restricted from its benefits? We do not believe the tennis courts should be operated on a basis which will restrict the general public. There may be those who only play tennis occasionally would find little time to belong to a club but would welcome the opportunity of a game with a visiting friend or as a means -of occasional relaxation. When a facility belongs to the public, the public slxjuld be free to its 'use. 'i nkmw af'o what had een a giH)d A telegraph perut(ir 1 friendly .ined deuiwn of the deep was soul) tijiped him off that Fen-' seen near Niinaimo. It's length ians were just crossing tlie Ni-,was around fifty feet and at agara River from Buffalo to first there was no certainty as Vorl Erie which confirmed was K"oiit,iiiHi 011 page 5 a lurther screening under an ; wuld do no harm. I would like authority of unquestionable ob- j to .s(.e the UN send out some jectivity.' , tried-and-te.sted sueeesstul civ- ! Hian conciliator like Anthony MONTHS afro Canada piinted Kden or our own Ij.ster fVarj.011. out to U.S.A. that there was 1 . . nothing in the Geneva Conven-j v-. tion to legaline what U.S.A. w:si Whopping Skecter proposmg to do in Korea about! war prisoners. Although neither I WEYBUKN, Sa.sk. HP - 'Mountain View Resort CtDARVALE, B.C. j irt-, f: it Titiw, tit '. Co Kins ond Poomj Good f!ce to stop COFFKK SUOPl'-E. STORE and HOME GASOLINE Russia nor U.S.A. ratified has stabi. Jim BallantiMic of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that convention all nations theoretically at ieast accept it at Yellowknile, N.W.T., mailed a sample of northern mosquitoes as a guide to 'civilized action to his friends here. The skeeter's iiiea.MiniH-nt was three -quarters of an inch long with a whip, rpan of moi than a i inch. Canada did not give -German prisoners the choice of staying here or going back home. Indeed, in one case (which I wrote about in this -column) our RCM1' hunted down a lone escapee, lie had held down a 3os;en jobs across Canada and was working well as a farm hand in B.C. But still he 'Aent back to his own land. So did thousands of Germans from Britain, who asked to stay, especially because they were winking freely on farms and many had British sweethearts. ' ' Of course In most cases tlie ' V-' :.. , . t - i k, ' K 1 ' -v. ' Report From . . . Parliament Hill By Edward T. Applewhaite, M.P., Skeena ' -KYf Question of persecution did not Many people, particularly those living on the West Coast, will be interested in the "Japanese Fishing Treaty" now before the Standing Committee on Marine and Fisheries. Appearing before that Committee oil May 6, Council Manager Cordon O'Brien tabled the resolution from the annual meeting in Wfurf Smoof hness ! ESSO and ESSO EXTRA tl lere's no better buy! Backed by Imperial Oil s 72 years of refinieg experience ... by the most extensivyesearch . . . the most modern refineries. Buy anywhere in . Canada at the sin that says quality tbJ-SSO sIkq. arise. The British government tried and hanged Lord Haw Haw and John Aniery. The Russians instantly shot thousands of Soviet nationals who had been coerced or coaxed into- serving in Hitler's armies. But no one raised the question which lias been raised in Korea: Do war r K-'' c c -. . '" v. !ytM t'l. f t i it ' V 1 v M . T 1 V ", . 1 1 ' .f I i ! r t J. i ... 4 r which the Fisheries Council this prisoners Jjave the 'right to less renewed) on July 31 year. Senator Roebuck asked wheth er the extension of the Act is 'Glad I switched. choo;;e to go home Or not go home? ; ' REGARDLESS of who is to blame, or how we got in the mess we are in, no prisoner should he turned over to hi- own Communist government if that wiU mean that he will be persecuted, tortured, or put to death. Geneva Convention or no Council of Canada "endorse.' the content of the said Tripartite Agreement without qualification and recommends its ratification by parliament." At the meeting on May -6, Deputy Minister Bates gave a detailed review of the considerations which led to the drafting of this fisheries agreement in its present form. He referred to the .necessity of adopting principles which we would be willing to have applied against us; he said that principles .had to be found to satisfy these for the purpose of preventing a further fall in the purchasing power of tUe Canadian dollar, or whether it is to give the government priority in obtaining goods for manufacture which are needed for defence purposes. Senator Farris said that he supposed it was for any purpose which, in the light of the object for wliich this measure was .enacted, the government may think to (essq) GASOLINES" PRODUCTS OF IMPERIAL Geneva Convention common! lustified. Senator Roebuck sutr- WhUe this draft treaty is bas- PHstf-H it. mitrht. hp nuH fnr nmv ed on the grounds that our j other purposes, to which Senator Pacific fish or the more val- Farris agreed, liable f them are fully used Senator Tom Reid of New now and our own fishermen are , Westminster said he did not restricted it had to be made a suppose that any law has ever little more specific than that been placed on the statute books and it is stated in three parts in which sotne one has not tried covering ta) maximum exploita- to find a loophole, and cited tion; (b) conservation; t-et scien- evasions of regulations in the tific study. There are not a past. Assuming that Senator great many fisheries in the Reid was asking a question. Sen- iiV Vim mi """" "iccuiiB Liiu.ic principles. ; ator Farris said he was sure that, when occasion arises to renew the Act, the Minister would greatly appreciate having his attention called to this matter. Prime Minister St. Laurent spoke very nicely about the Dominion Drama Festival in the The House of Commons passed the resolution to extend the life of the Consumer Credit (Temporary Provisions) Act in a matter of minutes but it has been before the Senate for several days. Senator Farris of B.C. sponsored the resolution in the Senate. lei Pie Eiieir JdD IE IT EE House recentlv Hp sairt tiViat This Act, which it is propowed , consideraUon has been given to be extended, was passed in 1950. ' the matter of making a reason-It gives tlie government author-' ably generouB grant to the Fes-ity to restrict consumer credit. tival, but it has been found it It was enacted with a limitation is not a matter that can be as to its duration, expiring (un- (Continued on page 3) e ilHiflEiia I PHONE 210- I mm Mi I Bah i i For lhat New RANGE, REFRIGERATOR I WASHER or SMALL APPLIANCE J G.E. KETTLE j NOW 14J. 5 j i i Inserted by th B.C. Litxral Aiiiociitlon Northern B.C. Power Co. Ltd. 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