PROVINCIAL- PROVINCIAL LI33..?.T, QRMES 131 B. C. 113 ' t)RUGS DAILY DELIVERY , NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'8 NEWSPAPER STAR V CABS Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 B , ni IHSPATi'HED VOL. XLI, No. 4 PRINCE RUPERT, B CC, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952 TEN CENTS (Including comic section Pi Mires Soil $11 t- j If v Winnie in Washington f nmiTII IMICl . ' VICTORIA --Premier Byron VUll'"'WIIU j Johnson announced Friday that T the 1952 session of the BritLsh I Columbia Legislature will open AnnrDCCinn i February 19. New International Fish Commission With Japan Advocated After Parley OTTAWA (CP) A Canada-United States-Japan commission for conservation of North Pacific fisheries would be set up under the convention recently Egyptian Left Wingers Are Offering $280 Per Head for Dead Britons ISMAILIA, Egypt iffj Egyptian terrorists nearly killed Captain 8. M. Anderson of the British Army by hurling a gasoline bomb at his jeep about eleven miles south of here yesUrdttj, it was teamed today Anderson, aide to General Sir Brian Robertson, British Middle East commander, fired two bursts from his tommy gun and chased the bandits for more than half a mile: , Attempt on the captain's life followed a Cairo left wing ofter of $280 per head for dead British officers In a bid to scare them out of the Canal Zone. MUM j The session Is expected to be; a on. itf f lip hpovlpsf in vooro Cruising Potomac This Week-end With President Truman NEW YORK Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in New York today and headed immediately for Washington to be met by President Truman with whom he will make a Potomac River cruise during the week-end. lvASlUNGTON I. C CPJ Thei. Special Inquiries have been ,i ii tU States was reported Frl-imade into the Industrial Concll- . I lotion nnA lPtiltrnl!,.n X3..U I irt to be advising 1U allies """ i-v j .,ioi ... lsh Columbia Hosnital Insurance Korean armb'.lee, if ob- l a Servlce and Workmen's Compen ,(. should be supported by ; satlan Act and reports on all of drafted bv representatives of the three countries, """'ul timaluin to lho;lnese ""-these wti wm bc be v presented presented dur during ng TI t , i . . j J .: . . r , f , ,,.;,. :,i u. irnpnca nas would put them on , tna se5sion . Hon. Robert Mayhew, minister of fisheries, said ice mai an-oui, u wm be waged against Red China he truce Is violated by new region. Flying Enterprise Now in Friday In a statement reporting on the terms of the draft treaty, Mr. Mayhew said other provisions include: Vurd of this reported stand by; The British Prime Minister was taken off the liner Queen Mary eighteen miles out by a fast tug and brought to a New York air field. There he was whisked off by the presidential plane to Washington. The heads of the two governments, during the . week-end cruise, will discuss in a preliminary way the problem which will be taken up at their formal conferences next week. Prince Rupert Area, Continents1 Richest; Yields $275,000 in Tow and Heading For Port United States was circulated (ilfinal circles after Amerl- DIED IN PLANE CRASH Mrs. Angus Bruce., 26, wife of a Kingston, Ontario, mining engineer and the only Canadian aboard a Miami-to-Buffalo airliner, was one of the 28 who died in the crash Saturday night. Fourteen others survived. The former Dorothy Bur-nian of Toronto, Mrs. Bruce was going to "Buffalo to visit her mother before rejoining her husband in Kingston on jmvrrnmeiits concerned had .,...,,.. ,.,. , ,,, . ,, , the whole prolonged: LONDON (CP) The crippled r lying hnterpnw ory of the parley and weigh- stal.t(,f under tow toward Falmouth harbor at a Fur 1. Japan would abstain from fishing halibut, salmon and herring off the coasts of Canada iand the United States. 2. Canada and Japan would i abstain from fishing salmon in I Bering Sea east of the 175th meridian of longitude. political and military possi-j . 4 hs oi the new poMti.,r.. ; tedious inree Knots today, tier snipper, api. iuri . 'Carlsen, who refused stubbornly to abandon his wal- More than $275,000 was paid out in cash last On Friday of next week Mr. Churchill will proceed to Ottawa. year to trappers in this area and the new season for ister The British Prime ! Viitdnn SrhnnnPr ' lowing ship in the face of wild storms, was jubilant miMliy JUIUVllCi i f.nn,j,i(.nt that he is iroimr to win his lonir fieht new years tve. w fnuiui iiU u.. : . in t.. u The three-country fishing conference held in Tokyo did not sign the draft convention. However, it ' recommended to the three governments that the Hie lui lyuusi-iy neic la iirvcij lu uc da gvuu, oi-wiu- ! v - - - O O -' j- - - i against the sea. esrch Fruitless ing to local fur buyers. Northern British Columbia al ever, who make trapping as f ull- tim an ivfimafinn as is nnjiKihlf URGES WHIPPING POST Commander of the United States destroyer Wlilard Keith. Immigrants Due Halifax iAI.IKAX CP Search for the KJii'M Barbara Ronald, mlss- WASH1NGTON API Senator ways has been the frontier coun- are nomadic ori try of the trapline. Today the Jrom the Hazelton' area, Prince Rupert game area, larg-, wno'have Uved of, their reServes which arrived to watch over the sixteen days with eight Tobey 1R-NH1 suggests that the stricken American freighter and li,. dr.ift be accepted. STATEMENT Mr. Mayhew'. statement said:' "During recent weeks negotiations have been under way in Tokyo between the governments! of Japan, the United States and i Canada on the matter of the ; est m me province, is esiamaveu f0. M ,on as 20 s A block richest fur district on the as the ,n the extreme nortn and central her doughty captain, reported: "The tow is riding smoothly." Capt. Carlsen's nine-day ordeal -nearly seven of them alone kept busy in His quarters during the crossing on the .Queen Mary. Only twice was he seen outside by other passengers. Churchill, on arrival, told newspapermen that "prospects fr world peace are solid In 1952." Mr. Churchill made his statement in response to a question but did not elaborate. He grinned .when ..reporters .asked.. ..whether the Soviet threat to.. . peace has increased or decreas-.. . cd in recent months, i "I don't think there is any greater danger now than at the i aboard arter a North At- whipping post be revived to pun-:i? hui riranc, was abandoned lsh public officials who betray ut iimht wh.n investigation their trust. :nl up a derelict from a prev- j The sharp tongu.'d senator told stunn d reporter he is "thinking ser- HALIFAX Bringing the first continent-ana u b me leasv area haJj been set asWe or thelr exploited. . i trapping and hunting grounds. in the darkened and sadly 11st- . : , ,i Trn.,. These people live on V, h t l A , tw. h . ii n Canada in 1952, four trans-Atlan- their their an'.,.. n,. ...in ,. ,itwin ..":.. .... i traD hnes. working: with hip -appeared over unle !ie ie.e!i"t, which was sighted lously" of asking Congress to log I lv.ll WU iyt,L(iiwi-i he Lapoile Kay area of New- Impose the penalty of flogging udl.md, was thought at first for gross misconduct in federal w the missing schooner. office. the barrel-tnick towing hawser agreement was reached between ,hp next ,wo dav. with 3 4M D families, and only appear In breaks or swelling sea, tip the; the representatives of the three civilisation when they have to- vessel over. , countries. ... to trade their fur onerated from Ir0m dockside "'.co .t ast from fmm ih the NaasRi Nans River wr month nouUv -in mast cases For the first time since the , "Under the existing principles 2 at towns acr0!s wanaaa. to Ana to the coast -f Hartley Bay. Kni-1-i.np.fPi.i.keri Flvinsr Enter- i of international law a!! nations! ,hi,hruo v. the kon. Alberta's Estimates of New prise was cracked across the middle and left helpless some bearers as his heritage, trapping time of the Berlin air lift, pro- Cunard liner Samaria early Sun-i the fishery resources o the high nti,m an si, anvJdiv morning with 737 passcn- form an important source of Recent surveys by the Indian vided we take prudent measures 3uu miles of! England s southern lean uepariment nave snowu mat ne gajd ip on December 28. the weather Investment Reach Vast Totals at a natives have not yet begun to v..i.s reported" "calm." wnere up to the territorial hm- gers, including a numoer oi nui- i iiveunuuu u u . . . g its of any other country. Be- jisli immigrants. j months when fishing is cause thse rights exist, prob-j 'pue later and probably not standstill. kina loive arisen when alfcwnm. uniri Monday are the S3 Fairsca". ' TROBLEMS '" " ' explore the potentialities of their ! , " ' . vpr nn. a m n. .Snaking the Kntei pri.-c to port iiMoJltary source Bril,sh -" Emifl?ttoN'(ClT-lmost' have been made to conserve cer- j with more than 2,000 lmmi-i But trapping lias been the tain resources. Thus, for ex-1 grants: the Oi'ipsholm, with 349, i source of many problems amons road on their established lines even though many of them have 'If the weather continues, But, wnen asxpa airecwy, aoout rth of new industrial development is in prospect according to F. :.ii ih Ki-ith'n pikutain. "It will ainole. will e uanaua ana ine ; and the NCDtun;a. witn 25B. ' me iiawves, t ...:ii n. : Albert a. United Stales have a joint com- it vmii tup tue piuvinces piuuiiu'ii ,.1K(, aooul fuilr orty8 to take The Fairsea is now the largest pr' Anfleld' J"?' su')edn; iwth s;inci tlw t jtthtn tfnvffi th:in fivo vc:i',i the Flvilii; Enterprise into Fal ; tenueub neie. iviiasi, ui liic.-sc iivjw, ; however, have been "ironed out." mouth.' 0 marked Alberta as one of the world's great oil niLsslon that has stuuiea ana immigration liner in service Deregulated the halibut fishery W,twecn Eur0pe and Canada. She the North East Pacific, there U;wiU bring arl estimated 2,050 nothing in international law or , passengcrSi Xne previous record custom to prevent any other na-jw nPld by tn cunard liner Problems began in 1926 when Ids and drew attention to its other unexploited ! traplines first were registered. W EAT HER This new provincial order did tural wealth. i " ' the chances for peace in the New Year, he replied: "Prospects for world peace are solid in 1952." Mr. Churchill told reporters that the purpose of his visit is "not to get things settled so much as to establish close understanding between heads of government on both sides of the Atlantic." The British Prime Minister cautioned against expecting "a lot of decisive and startling conclusions" in his talks with President Truman. - not been trapped for years. But logging is making further headway progressively in the Prince Rupert area and with the big timber alio go the furbearers. Therefore, the native trapper will have to look in future upon his source of seasonal income with a business-eye. Selective trapping, according to the surveyors, seems to be the answer. At least, such a system has a good chance to give more to the followers of the industry with less chance of its extinction. J the In- Aquitania which carried between 1300 and 1900 persons. not meet kindly with projects to develop the; 11,1 r ', voices oil. natural gas. for- I will III II IS U ! s.vihipms tions fishing for halibut on these offshore grounds. No other countries have actually entered this fishery but should do so such action would of course threaten the existence of the conservation agreement between Canada and the United States. We could no longer restrain our fishermen (Continued on page 2' dians whose trapping grounas were of tribal ownership. Mostly the old system where the tribal chief directed all trapping and where and who of his minions would trap went with the registration of lines. Price Fix Ban Result and mines, and to process I A surge of moist air from the products of its rich soil, will; I I I If I ! Pacific brought milder weather r nearly $fK).000,000 Into Al- H Ifl fl Wr. V WOfK ' ,hc s'llll'rn B''i"sh Columbia a within the next few years. y"I,u (.(aj.t tVornii 111.. Temperatures nc fmurp is from the Alberta i in ihis region will be in the high "trial Development Board.! VICTORIA CP- British Col- thirties today which is several hout EoiiiK into still-confl-i nmhik p ir.imi teH for degrees higher than they have tial detail. Director Richard 't-rit, tiummnon fn? m.w hi'.h. been for the past week. Ligm j with co-operation from the , WINNIPEG Big price rcduc- j provincial game department, ' jtions in such items as electric j ' however, the Indian Affairs ranges, washing machines and Branch tried to find a "happy ! refrigerators, usually nationally j medium" between old tribal laws I advertised articles, were adver- j and the provincial laws, i Used by local stores yesterday in ; Finally, all lines in the area i the daily newspapers. were registered through the cf- 'Hand said the sum repress "tirm" projects undertak-s "past the Inquiry phase" no in the planning stage. Apartment Fire Fatal I ways and bi ioi.s in 19j2, Hon. c. : C. Carson, minister of public works., said Friday, n total of 124 5 miles of highway had been i completed at a cost of $0,200.u'J0. ; Another 50 6 miles was under contract at a cost of $5,500,000. 01 course." said Mr. Mart- rain win continue toaay wim clearing tomorrow. For tire interior cloudy skies and scattered snow flurries arc expected today and tomorrow wilh afternoon- temperatures in the twenties. Forecast North coast legion Cloudy today with showers in southern section. Cloudy tonight and to- i a. . i i, . --i ii. I f,irtc rF nrsnn:il rnntnpt. hv 'thin;; could happen to ue sonic of the dcvclop- MONTREAL -Five elderly u. e s.oie, in us uvv , " - ;7",ni llicni, ieuiurea me ncauniie; no - isrsntiK four women ana a man. Hot Charges Exchanged By Truce Negotiators MUNSAN (CP) Communist cease-Jtire negotiators today accused American pilots of bombing Chinese cities of Mukden, Shanghai and Tsingtao. The accusation was hurled at the Allies in a verbal rough-house session of a truce supervision sub-committee by Chinese General Hseih Fang. .Igenus. viitiiie yraiucii .u iwui- died today when a fire swept a more price maintenance." piuwicu. sucn as a snori-, Th(, mllliM.Pr of pilbiic works ot materials or an outbreak ; j,ajd lhal at ,ca,st $22.(,0O.CO0 will ar. he added that Individ-: bf nPcd,d ,.hls yf,a- k,.rp up 'inn voi ui? annouiicea ,, .,,l,.niKili.. rn:iri nnwruni he linns concerned as plans th million rtnihim will hp morrow. Rain in northern sec- tin, in this area for 25 years, worked especially hard in this field and Indian trappers look upon him as a close lriend. CONSKKVATION Not only were the new laws presented to the native trappers Would Handle Alberta Gas new sixtcen-s u i te apartment block on Hampton Avenue. They expired from asphyxiation. All were trapped on the upper floor .of the three-storey block. Two nurses, who had bee n looking after them, escaped. The dead are tentatively iden-. titled as Mrs. I. V. Cole, Mrs. Griffith, Miss Webster, Mrs. Davidson and Mr. Haseldon. by Cpl. Martin, but methods of) completed. I needed to keep TransCanada tion tomorrow evening. Little SH'.-i) WEALTH ! Highway construction on sched- change In temperature. Winds li's Indication of future de-ju!p westerly (151 today and tomor- 'Pmeiit came as the province! Twenty bridges had been com-' row, becoming southeast (25 up its most prosperous i pitted during the past year at a tomorrow evening. Lows tonight r. a year in which PremlT E.j cost of S2.3GO.000 and another and highs tomorrow Port Hardy Manning said that if the de- ten costing $944.5C0 had b?en 32 and 38: Samlsplt and Prince 'Ipmriu ot natural resources started. ' Rupert, 30 and 38. tunics at the present accele- ' " "You ve gone too lar wun your trapping and conservation oi absurdity and arrogance," de WASHINGTON D. C. (CP) ' fur-bearing animals were shown Northwest Natural Gas Co. of to them. New York askea the l ower oon. But the Indian trapper nn-thc m i.sxlon on Fridav for authority coast is also a natural conser- Royal Story by Correspondent I uj 4.1 iii.niwi.un.iM.iii.m jhi.hdj.hhi -mwifmmmmmm ami,' " " to build a natural gas transmis u raie it "is not too visional foresee the day when it' a will be a debt-free and -'rcc province vationist. He does not exploit the back yard of his trapline for security reasons: because he is a boatman, rather than crosscountry hiker, and because of clared Hsieh in a heated exchange with the United Nations negotiators. "You have cast yourself In the role of a bandit," said Major General Howard M. Turner. Turner told the Re.ds: "The United Nations did not come to Korea to surrender. We have no intention of leaving South Korea to your .tender mercies." sion system in Uie Pacific Northwest to transport gas from Al-ber,ta to the markets of Uic United States. he province h w miiL. still pre- The company's new proposal-1 wrtain supei-stitioius it orleinallv simuested the 1 ne In Kack Sf inanv an Indian LONDON (CP) Incidents In the dally lives of the royal family which do not reach the public ear are recorded in a book by L. A. Nichols, accredited Buckingham Palace court correspondent. Eentltlcd "The ' Royal Story" (Macdonaldi, the book recounts how Princess Elizabeth visited the "individual pie" department of a large firm and asked the question uppermost In everyone's mind: "Aren't you ever tempted to eat any of them?" The frank reply of the worker: "Yes, I am occasionally," amused the Princess as much as anyone. Another .time the King and Queen, visiting the provinces, called at a farm'. The head of 1948caUs for spending of $92,-000,000 for a 645-mile pipe line system with dally delivery capacity of 205,000,900 cubic feet. Originally it had proposed a 756-mlle system witii capacity of 209.000,000 cubic feet daily. Besides United Slates centres, the. new line would be used to supply distributing companies in Vancouver and Trail. village are mountain lakes simply stocked to the hilt with beaver and In m.st cases, onee Canada's highest-prized furbearer will remain in peace and quiet while he lives "in the hills." A strong belief by the natives that it is extremely unlucky to life and limb to invade the mountains is still prevalent. With the opportunity to register lines in three different methods: individual lines, partnership and company (tribal) lines, areas along the Skeena and Naas Rivers still are being trapped much according lo an Sterling Areas Facing Crisis y LONDON w Countries of the sterling area in the Commonwealth are facing a great struggle to save their currencies from collapse, it was declared at a conference here' yesterday. Drastic increases of exports as an estimated $135,000,000 Hi of crude during the 12 ""a but still were held tn "i because of Inadequate "is ot getting oil to market. l"e year end, work was be-luB on an $82,000,000 plpe- irom Eumonton to the Pa-': wast, supplementing the ,'o the Great Lakes which '. Alberta oil to eastern Meanwhile, Edmonton shap-UP as ihe centre of a (treat chemical industry. First "ie field was Canadian rmil ( o., a subsidiary of 7 'noration of Am- SM-,".0tl Plant, the l its type the world. 1 turn British Columbia ' P"l into synthetic tex- 1,v-Proilucl of the fby oil refineries into , ""I'als ineludinK some not inad'a"1 manutactured l' I'lOS K..I.:..., . the household ceremoniously In "Tliat'a compared with imports will be troduced his relatives. British Taking Strong Action PORT SAID British authorities pressed giant tanks and big guus into action yesterday lo blast houses from which Egyptian terrorists have been persisting hi sniping. necessary. me sister and that's me brother cient customs. Trapping a tribal line on the This.is me. That's me wife ami Naas, for instance, will be di- tnais me son. TIDES "Ah," said the King, smiling, 'now we know." rected by the chief councillor, and In some cases lines are trapped only to create a fund for Sunday, January 6, funeral expenses of clan mem- Six hundred British East Afri- SPECIAL UBLIVERY-Tliis helicopter, nleknain d the "Pregnant Bumblebee because 1 its bulging waterproof mailbins, has been delivered to Newfoundland to Inaugurate Canada's first regular helicopter air service. The federal government decidod lo use the helicopter on ar. experimental basis to carry mail to 20.000 residents on a group of Isolated' islands off the Newfoundland coast If the four-month experi nent proves a success, helicopter mail service bicak Uic isolation of other wlntcrbound communities. (CP PHOTO) will be inaugurated to i 1952 19.1 teet 15 8 test 8.5 feet 6.5 feet can armed police have arrived to ibers. And clan lines are reserved ,'ad'an Industries Limited NO TIMBER I High 8:46' There are no forests In Green-j 22:00 land, but a dwarf willow and Low 2:13 biiu.1 are found in certain areas 15:42 ' 'f 11 Plans to ' be used in the effort to restore i strictly lor mat purpose. build a 13.00n.- There are some natives, how- ' order iu the Canal zuuc. .1 ,coiitii,ued on pt.Sc i