provincial! LIBRARY PHOVI'iI'L LI"?.""'1' 11 J t t...- -i.3 ?IA. B. c MORROW'S ORMES -TIDES- DRUGS jy. January 16. 1953 '. ,s ;n.(!:irt! Time - :: ft V--' 2.08 20 6 feet DAILY DELIVERY 13 4 23 2 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA 8 NEWSPAPER 20 7 24 4a 0 61 8 feet feet Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 01 VOL. XL1I, No. 12 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15. 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Still W 1 t Jo tiki Dgl 1 V; , 'TT - -.v. Q , ; , i , m f " .""V . -r jvjsf'" n n fi-;,i'" 3 aunt M $kmv A InlBM Tp-'inr :p 1 British Seize Germans 4 r if Company Chief Here Airs Views on Project By ERIC SANDERSON The Aluminum Company of America still as It .. ' , - v I I? I I hopes that the Canadian government will permit use of Canadian water to generate power for a proposed $400,000,000 plant near Skagway, Alaska. it- This was disclosed here last ; ! Former Nazis j BONN, Germany (CP) i In a surprise midnight swoop, British police arrested six former Nazis i Wednesday night and cused them of plotting to kon water for a power plant ls night by the chief consultant of the company, James P. Graw- the best use that can be made of it ln the Skagway area. Elevated to Cardinal At the time of the Alcoa an- V f 1 . :..;::... !... . - nountment. Aluminum Com pany of Canada officials said regain power in Western Germany. the Alaska plant would have no British safety officers. asslst- i nil C ( AKIHN At 1 1 (.Hi i right . arch juhop of Montreal, was ohe of 24 Roman Cath-,nUi .ib created thin week and today wu honored in a rerrmuny in St. Peter's great a Ana;nt a background (if blazing light and the color f mediaeval pageantry, the Pope : i u h..t.. on the head of 17 new cardinal Above, Cardinal Leger receive hU biglletto i;.''i;s'r M-.fcr Eni.lo FrancU Between them stands Msgr. Emlle Boucher, rector of Cunadun collrgu. ed by armed military police. adverse effect upon its $500,-000.000 plant now in construction stage at Kitimat because of. the rapidly-expanding world market for aluminum. Wi - -A yX , .. '-j hauled the men out of their j homes In Hamburg and Dues-j seldorf areas In the British oc-! don of Pittsburgh, who Is en ioute to Juneau lo address the All-Alaska Chamber of Com-i merce on Friday. Interviewed in his stateroom aboard the Prince Rupert short-! ly before sailing for Ketchikan, the tall, greying engineer said: "We were sorry to see the Canadian government take such a positive attitude towards use of Canadian waters for . power, but we think that the use of Yukon water which we propose would be more beneficial to B C Canada and the Yukon than anything else." While he said he was going to discuss the proposed project before the Chamber of Com- Mr. Winters' letter to the y Alcoa president did not gtve reasons for Canada's rejection 1st Coast Fiddler Played BOB MOWBRAY, 14, of Lucknow, On, covers his &4 -customer paper route by pony express. He bought the pony with earnings made from the route. Lucknow Is 60 miles west of London. (CPPhoto) cupatlon zone, and took them toj an undisclosed Jail. The BriUi.i rore.n Office j announcement In London said , the plotters promoted anti-1 western views and propaganda j of use of Canadian waters which leaves the door open fo: further negotiation. hs With $65,000 Fortune Development of an aluminum industry at Anchorage might be City Businessman UIi: JUNCTlON.aiH'ti in rural Maine and New A yj Oifl violin that , P.runsi It In asMiitnz Leonard followed by huge developments of minerals, which It ls reported hk ki t! ruuiid country Lyon a comfortuble old ase. abound ln the Alaska-B.C. 1 merce in Alaska, he could not which threatened the West Oer-man federal government as well as Allied policies. NAMED BY t1ITLt.fl Among tiUr men seized were two who had been named in Hitler's will to succeed to hts'ii political posts In what the 'ii- Talks to Alaskans For 20 years the 82-year-old telegraph operator for the Canadian Pacific Railway here kept the valuable Instrument tucked away in a clothes closet. Now it's locked In a Banijore, Me, bank vault, protected from fire and theft. (say what the next move would I be regarding water rights. Canada would be foolish to assist destruction of' -But," he said, -i think that YUKON GROUP SUGGESTS Yukon area. MAY RECONSIDER But if Canada does not plan to develop the reported potentialities, it may reconsider the aluminum company proposal. , . Mr. Onm-dorr-sald that when markets for its vast new aluminum centre at Kitlmati cide-bent, Fuehrer envisioned as YAKING OVER NORTH. C- , Ljons dvewvi intend to u j conllnulng Tblrd Reich. , by jji-anting outright permission to American inter- rightthat t the Yukon A Brltisi. stxiKesman said the River water far power purposes ests to use northern Canadian water rights, But at the same time. "I don't th violin i prtM-nt. saying he ; hasn't any particular need fur tfls.ooo now b of better advantage to Can- men have not yet been charged, butjhey are being held while their anti-western activities are Investigated further. ada than any other use they'll let us proceed with our project." Mr. Orowdon first visited the of the barge ferry service development between Prince Rupert and Ketchikan. Dcueve (.anaaa win raice a oog-ln-the-manger attitude in regards to the Aluminum Company of America proposals," T. Norton Youngs, Prince Rupert "Even some of the Ketchikan 1 proposed site in the Taika Val- "I d jut as Mxm keep on going as I am now, I'm Just as well off working as doing something else. Sure. I could travel, but that would get tiresome." DEC LAKI I) A "STKAD" I'MMNTos -f -The winu-hoiw Chamber of Commerce "!) !" 'he piupaal thai BrltLsh Columbia lake over part " Yukon ax a nuKRentlon Wednesday tlial Yukon's bor-'"' moved smith to tuke over a chunk of B.C. he WmtehorM. chamber resolved to iakr "all feasible to promnt Ihe welfare of the residents of northern 6 -meiicliiiK the southern boundary of th Yukon to M degree. 40 minutes " :'ii;t wnuld make the B.C. Yukon border run east and west. 'i.a'i iy noith of Prince Rupert and Prince 0nrge. delegaVs were unaware of ley about 10 miles from Skagway jald Mr. Youngs. in 1947 and In 1949 negotiations uuaiuesaiiiau, buiu me iirsimeet- (ns Inir of the AIL Alaska rhamhprti 1 Alcoa officials net Mr. Winters in Ottawa, the minister said the government would investigate the northern site but there" has been no announcement, ofjany report being prepared. It has been stated that opera-. tion of an aluminum plant at Juneau might also benef't Prince Rupert as the product could be shipped to this port and transported over the CNR, cutting short long hauls- by water and speeding up delivery to eastern markets. Before too long, the Ketchikan Pulp and Paper Company to secure power from Canadian of Commerce at Juneau Tues-I "But. thev cre very enthus Salmon' Sale Prediction 'Surprising' iasUc 'about the possibilities of!" ' opened by the U.S. day. such a service, for they feel It Mr. Youngs, 1952 president of j Not long ato, at the insistence f fritnds, the railroader placed the violin in a battered case ind Journeyed to Boston. The:-e the Prinre Rmvr? rhamlvr ...icouia mean a mucn more eni- government on behalf of Alcoa. NOT CONTINUED In March. 1951. the Canadian government informed Washington it was not prepared to con cient uPPIv llne to 811 of A1' Commercc. addressed the Alaska j aska.' OTTAWA O A prediction by group of businessmen as a dele- ily Pine Pass For PGE Link c xperts declared It a Stradlvar lus, made by the Italian master Fisheries Minister Sinclair thati gate of the B.C. Chamber and; Mr. Younija said he was told In 1771. and estimated Its value Britain may soon be buying i the Pacific Northwest Trade As- that in the past 10 years Alaskan at S65.0Q0. Canadian salmon again caught i soclation. J ports had seen an average of 76 tinue with a Joint Investigation y Dawson Creek Businessmen Federal and British officials by He was giving them the Can-! days a year stoppage of steam- "I'd known that for 20 surprise. adian view of Alcoa's plans to; ship service due to labor strife. n;"K BC ? - the Peace River Pass fm-k Chamber of T,1( .xecuUv said it believed They said thvy are not aware build a huge aluminum smelterj -The Alaskans claim they are of any indication by Britain that ; at Skagway "as seen by B.C. terribly hard hit by this problem '": t aX K . . v . - ill t i 4 U k? "a,. t , ; s v m t ' '.At : m 1 V - '- r-1 Vi J- - s V. v '- V t ' -.''"'i' ' - , - i . v v. ; fi.. : f - " ''ff t - , I J r'- t i' i ?' ".! ' ' I ' '; . . ' - f,' , ! ;'v . ' ;-i r .0 ' i "1 4 'i i ; it 1, . . .' t ... -i : , 1 ' ,v r t years," l.vons confided. "I had It appraised in New York once when I was working there," of the possibility of harnessing Plant, now being built, will' ship the Yukon River, and Alcoa's tons of pulp and other cargn announcement last Aug. 23 that, through this port and It , has it might be able .to start con-in reported that Alcan "also structlon of a giant aluminum may transport equipment by plaltt this spring or summer barge fm ere after the rail-came as a surprise to Ottawa. ! 'y r ferry near the grain elear U 0PM ter Last November, Resources j month. ' .;i.. if.i i ii7 he plans to resume purchases of , businessmen." Mr. Youngs said and lumued at the Idea that ,, r"Y P- the Pine Pa.s routr would bene- route lliikliic the f,( u,,,. c. t..i, ...... to the Stradivarius ;BrlUsh Columbia salmon soon. 0n his return yesterday after- the ferry service could help solve Before 1932 A dispatch from Vernon, B.C., ' noon sri uk uiaei- 101 luxojr u jik .,,.,,, Cin.lnr m,a. ih. n. Toe li .tiaska districts represented at the first All-Alaska Chamber meeting at Juneau, however, were sur - '.n Kaleru Railway 'i' i i Creek other than P''c Puss route through Columbia. enietgenry mei'tiliR Wed-!l" Chamber, executive l i wne Georee Murrav. son Creek. Charges were heard that recent siipixirt of the route through Moiikman Pass was a promotion stunt by an oil firm. The Chamber executive said Mr. Youngs outlined Alcan's Kitimat and Kemano Bay development to the group and "every time one of the delegates asked a question, I could see md red in Maine and noh-.d,cU t th( annua, convenUon New b.unswirk. In those, bormg f fiC Frult Orowers lays It was played by Lyons j ctatton Tuesday. son, Re-bert, who died in 1932. , , ' , .... , . 1 from the I Surplus 19o2 catch, Neither father nor son real- t was Indicated here, may be in d then that a $65,000 fiddle as much as 500.000 cases, or about, was calling the tunes and no 24,000.000 pounds. j particular care was taken of it. j Britain purchased about 250.-! prised to learn that the Can adian covernmrnt had reiect- thev were thinking 'Alcoa when miniskirt viiubcia iuiui iiicu a. vt Wilsoix president of Alcoa, that the Canadian government's responsibility was to see the waters were used for the "maximum benefit" of Canadians. While Mr. Growdon would not enlarge on his remarks, he indicated that Alcoa believes it can convince Canadian officials that harnessing of B.C. and Yu- Is no oil-field at Monk- M. miKT of Purllamenl tht', ed Alcoa's proposal to use ! they mentioned 'Alcan.' " northern B.C. and Yukon ! : man, while the Fort St, John r.na has proved a benefit to Dawson Creek residents. "The Monki,:.ii Pans route is stilting iu opposl-' !' route other than e I'ii.s,, and askliiK that, bdraw 'he resolution to Fire Engines Busy But Only Little Damage r : City fire department answered two calls at the same place this morning for a total of four trips In two days. " Only slight damage was done MING IN FAMILY ; 000 cases from the 1951 -catch, i but because of the dollar scar- j -WEATHER- "-ed to Commons next 30 years late and the Peace Pass watershed to power an aluml- num plant. ' Mr. Youngs said that "the members there were astonished' to hear this from me. They hadn't heard It befofe, but they. Lvons said the Instrument was: city, nalted purchases irom uie 1952 production. ,M" route through 30 years early," It was said. handed down from his grand Milder weather returned to most of the B.C. coast during the night In advance of a storm Radio Woman To Speak Here. leceived ouc viewport very wet. laSkanSrVing frm "I pointed out to the A to the office of Bytown Ma- oitau. ximen, Bus Lines Object New Shoppers' Service' that Alcoa once in production, would sell its aluminum on U.S. The spread of clouds Into the, , . ,m n, ff , i Th fi , ,, 9.J Texas Company Takes Control Of Peace Site father. Porter Lyons, born In Lee. Me. When Porter died the violin went to his son, Millard, father of the present owner. I yons isn't sure how the Stradivarius came Into Porter's possession After the New York rxpcrU had a look at the violin, Lyons popped it into a clothes press, keeping the revelation pretty markets tariff-free, while Kiti- interior nas iaxen uie punm out , wUJ speaker at the Women's mat would be faced by a ltj tojof tne cold weather there. ForCinadian club mwting on Jan. S-cent a pound tariff on its j example, Prince George this 21 Harris .who conducts a export. I morning reported 19 below' as:daily nAU program ln Vancou- "This would put an awful compared to 55 below zero yes-Verj was previously scheduled to VANCOUVER O The American Oil r'omnanv of terday morning. The rise ln address the club ln December i r .uiiiul. over the obiec-, "If the taxi companies think "" taxi firms and Ar- It will cut Into their business, w hy Ull,', rifs again en- don't they start the service them-application Of H. L. j solves?" "ere a'!!lrU!P.,' """PP"8 Aid. Ray McLean said council i.h station wagons. ! endorsed the application origln- iii son asked permission ally and moved that the appllca-1 uhlic Utilliies Com-:tlon be, endorsed again. It was 1 laxt Novemhor ii, ij i... .u crimp ln market of Canadian aluminum." Mr. Youngs said. "But I'm also sure that Canada will not take any dog-in-the-manger attitude to the Al much to himself. He hasn't any , Tex;is wll, take over development Immediate plans for the fiddle. of i.ocm.ooo acres ln the Peace "I guess I'll Just keep It in River country ot north-eastern the bank vault until I get too British Columbia. temperatures is being accom-ibut was forced to postpone her pnnied by widespread rain on arTvai untn this later date, the coast and by snow in the; meeting will be held at interior. The moderating trend, the Legion auditorium at 8 p.m. will continue on Friday. coa proposal. Refusal to grant! old to work," Lyons said. celved unanimous approval of other aldermen. Mr. Knutson, a taxi driver here personal service for house- Puc at that time sought v ews on the request City Medical Officer Resigns The rain on the coast will taper off to a few showers and the snow in the Interior to a few flurries. Forecast Intermittent rain southern Fargo oils cuiTenuy noias rights on the huge tract, bid General American has acquire! a substantial interest ln the company and w ill take over management and responsibility of operations. Work is expected to start as soon as weather ipermits. the water rights would come from an earnest desire to get the best for Canada." Meanwhile, Mr. Youngs said the Alaskan delegates at the Monday to Friday conference were also surprised to hear of at the present " time, wants to iiiaune with ii k... .': .'. mmis.sio,, """"i inaugurate a personalized service . tu , u .. : - : in wnicn wnicn ne ne wouia wouia pic pica up noust portion and Intermittent mixed j An emergency meeting of thej Man Killed in Silver Thaw VANCOUVER if - The Fraser Valley became a giant skating rinir Wednesday when freezing ii d iitiiin C k y C bUS "ne fori wives at their homes, id0'n town to siiop iwintr . that s mat ii, t,P 4 nxl f,.mg bring them and take a.m. when an overheated office stove set a wail on fire. The second call was answered a few hours later when smoke was again noticed ln the corner of the small room. Asiother call was answered last i.ight at the Fraser House but no damage was reported. ' A smoky furnace was soon rem- edled. Yesterday, under $100 damage was suffered at the home of Henry Helln, 103 Hays Cove Circle, when a wall caught fire from a blowtorch Mr. Helln used to thaw out frozen water pipes. Fire Chief Earl Becker warned householders not to Cuse blowtorches for such purpojses, but to use hot water and rags. "Put rags, soaked ln boiling water, on the frozen pipes and the result will be as effective as using a blow torch and much safer," he cautioned But the Chief hastened; to adc! that "rior.t do as I d'.;." Currently. Chief Becken- Is limping around with a Very sore foot. While thawing iput pipes at the fire hall, usung the hot water method, he accidentally spilled a bucket of boiling water down Ms gum boot ? I with their snow ana rain noruici n pui uoo. oKiena union ooara oi neaitn Milder. Southerly winds 15. Is to be held on Jan. 21 to con-Low tonight and high tomor-isider the resignation of Dr. D. row at Port Hardy and Sandspit ' M. Black as medical health of fi-32 and 45; Prince Rupert 28 cer and school medical Inspector. me application, .tat-1 groceries 8 I"' ould duplicate 1 rvice. n,. DIt r.... . MANY TAVW , . nuvutru 1 Tlie taxi firms contended that I tmnnitres followed close on and the appointment of Dr. S. T. and 40. r rp,,tl at lasl y v . niKht ,.,h, , meeting. ' ;,n!l'."f.cl'"m -y would " me there Is now one cab to every ,tne nPcla of a h,,avy rainfall, 140 persons here, as against one ! resuilmK n one death. . for every 1,200 in Vancouver, and , .,, that this tjpe of service would cut Mlre than 000 f'1001 cnl1--Into their operations. They would dren ln thc Chllhwack area were lose b!i-!nc :frlven on unexpected holiday. -iiun proved "nan torrow Gome, said: SOCREDS CONSIDER CUT IN CAR LICENCE FEES VICTORIA ffl A 10 per cent reduction in motor-vehicle licence fees is under consideration by the provincial government. It w'as leanved WcsL-'vdnr tlie government 1m Uni.viiig advisability of the move, uad hopes to amend the Motor-Vehicle Act at the coming session, so lower fees can go Into effect next year. The reduction would affect roughly 810,000 car owners. A $10 cut is said to be the government's eventual aim. but this will take some years to accomplish. Vtillllinnv Alrl 1M Met H.,T,, .eon inlri l-I he ronlH ,v,.I ' nn noli01"""' 1 Carr to succeed him. The meeting will be held at the health unit office, starting at 5 p.m. RECALLS DICKENS LONDON (CP) Mrs. Jemima Greenfield, 100-year-old pensioner, can recall that as a little girl she used to serve Charles Dickens ln her uncle's coffeehouse ln London. 'UC or ,.": ',...''! . Uh ice-coated roads. Duke Appointed Services Head LONDON O) The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband, has been appointed Admiral of the Fleet,. Field Marshal of the Army, and Marshal of the RAF, It was officially announced today. "ervien in.r " u ''uia,see now tne Dus company rouia, ' 'se inn iV ,, s ,s fref I object because persons riding Don Campbell, milk truck lie c'mV ' "n! buses board and alight at set ! driver, was killed at a level crass-1 think h i etC wllh lhcl'Ps, whereas Mr. Knutson's Ing when an icy windshield portion,,,'' slll,u1'1 ne given, plan Ls to call at the home at a i blocked his view of an approach- set time and return. i lug train.