PROVtNClAL A V i 1 -i . 1 ... MORROW'S -TIDES- J.muaiy 29, Ii3 wl ,- . ianl Time 1 ;tl 18 B fvt 13 ()'( 21 0 feet 1 10 8 2 fet .43 30 feet, DAILY DELIVERY Phone 01 j NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA H NEWSPAPER Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Poeifie Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL XLII. No, 22 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1 933 .PRICE HVE CENT8 111 1 t, rv n n n n nn 1 . -;-3'-r 1 1 IB 'sr.t. ! f Plane Missing On Coast u Parties Willing To Resume Talks By The Ckrmtiinn 1? OTTAWA Parties in the railway wage dispute at press time today expressed willingness to resume negotiations right awey in response to a personal appeal from Labor Minister Gregg. Emerging from a cabinet meeting, Mr. Gregg said he had received these assurances separately from the railways and the Brotherhood of Railroad Troin- V r i V k aw f fe - IX- Seven Aboard ' .; '::ZMf'--riH:- " I B-C- Aircraft . ..... -j-- .-. . I'illSTj !)lane with six pers ays i men. son a Elk Coralled aboard is reported miis- ( K.KY llll AM liAMK Awiclalioii each winter for the liui four year hit trarui- In Montreal,. A. J. Kelly, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said Jie did not regard the situation as hopeless. "There is still time to avoid a walk-out." MONTREAL A crippling mid-winter strike, paralyzinq to the notion's life-streams of commerce ing in the rugged nioun-Itainous country between liutedale and Kemano. The plane, on a 100-mlle over ! water flight from Butedale to j Kemano. carried five passengers .rul Pilot J. Slddle of ver. I u t i : me Kanano-iKM pme rrjM rr n auumern Aiuerta lo new lorage area wiierc , have better charter to survive and multiply. Permed in a coiral at the Canmore '.iti'.ii. (KJ mile west of Calgary, U the f .rst group of elk to be transferred About 100 are y b.....j '.in.-, year. land transportation, faces the people of Canada. A It was last heard from at 4 15 feather Again Prevents Planes orn Entering or Leaving City p m. yesterday. Company planes, although hampered by bad weather, made a search late yesterday and Unless the federal government intervenes, 18.000 key railway trainmen will walk off their Jobs at 8 a.m. local time next Monday, bringing to a halt every train on the steel arteries that bind the scattered regions of Canada. Food, fuel and consumer and industrial goods all thousands of products essential to every j. t j" ' i:n liea of now the entire route today. remains unknown. ' e:u!y today without sighting In telegrams to Labor Minister Gregg, the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen placed before- the government the fact they had reached the end of the negotiation road. With the next move up to the government, the cabinet was called Into session to try to deal with the crisis t rising out of the breakdown ol negotiations t .-' .m. OSn .! . IB 'I'lli I J Mr Pni.e Rupeit this There has been no report of Mot of the stranded paasen-1 clue. ' ir. UUMsiiig a more than deiaya In train transportation. (m Canadian Pacific Air! An RCAF Canso headed north) ..!!i-ti'al fa-lheisaince, Plane .rvlc. however. at to'to iln lhc wareh. It will be UnM ht ,rom Vancouver Vancouver to r.t .f :t.e year. still crippled In and out rf this . Hardy j i v r ..n. are open and the city and thrre are 21 prrsorw PH'c Rupert had exejn-cted to Name, of the pangera were ,!, til par? me tit report-' stranded at Sandsplt. trying to (et to Rupert this morning, but IK)t avi,iiable. 1 r h.iwy to T'-rrm-e still get to their homes. flying was impossible because of : A pilot with Central B.C. Air-I PANCHO, THE CHIHI AHVA, and Tony, the budgie, owned by E. R. Chapman of Calgary, are the best of friends. Pancho, his paw l,.,iding the bird, kisses Tony during a game of ball a sport day life will be left without vital means of transport in a t which they spend many hours. situation reminiscent of the dis- at MontreaL i , , yh it t -nowlng over When they win re nhie to leave' ; m.,y$ who brought in some parts Iruptive nine-day railway walk- Negotiations collapsed over a out of 1950. ' I simple aouars-ana-cenis issue- At least one passenger will not , " "J day sa d the missing plane Is make it. There is only room on ,,.f, .r,nmnhihiai. nianewhlehiP'onahly sitting down in a bay City Sells Debentures AX ON GOSSIP CUT TALK, somewhere along the coast shuttles battc and forth betwern ISO PAID FOR GOOD PARTY Vancouver Dealer J ' He probably ran into a small j Miottrm and set down." said !, ! the pilot, who left for Kemano , Hits afternoon. i i Prinre RiiiM'rt and Queen Char lot'e Ulatuls for 20 poenper. .IMtCTOR STKANUH That is the prospect a the of how much of a pay increase tesult of collapse ot Xat- should be granted to 18.000 ditch railway-union wage ncgo-1 brakemen, flagmen, trainmen, tlatlons which reached top ex- j yardmen, yard foremen and ecutlve level Tuesday only -to yard masters tmployed on the end Tuesday night in failure. railroads. Sought 35c an Hour City council at the resumed although two aldermen Bill ' meeting fast night "accepted the j Bremner and Darrow Gomez offer of McMahon and Burns, J were absent, i Limited, to market city of Prince j Sale of the bonds means there i Rupert debentures worth $775,- will be no deluy in construction 000. ! of the new automatic telephone 1 Under the proposal the Invest- j system here and may mean fur-;ment dealers will pay cash for'ther development of the city's ;the $100,000. 4'i per cent water-! waterworks system this year. works Improvement bonds at a j price of $92 85 per $100. and, U I A' 1 is I. HO. Out Every small rommuniiy ha Die B ', I.i :if CnliTt. whooe huband. Ben, own.vllie yaliion tt-tir, did unmethltiR about It. She pul a Ux on It. ' Tim u 'lie way it worked: Earh member f the aalea ataff em- to !.) tuie to tell her a "eholre morwl" about another !jT "t i he Muff or the rust'Jtner who Just went out the I j I !o )i.4-." a penny In a Kpeclal ror.talner. Thu l!u cut down on Wle chatter and the subsequent 111 !,i't. ra-i develop from It. but Lynne had to admit that, ' I '-ti ii! i he year they still had enounh ptniileg for a i H'ki-i party " Among paeners stranded are 'several Prince Rupert residents IncluriltiK a doctor and a woman store proprietor, sale.-men and oiher bu .lnessmcn enroute to the northern port city, and a five-day-old baby In severe physical danger, , I Dr. R O. Large, returning from a meeting of the DC. Medical A.v-ociaiion of which he U pre-.sldent. was aehedulrd to perform an operation Tuesday mornl.ig BULLETIN SOlTlLt.MPTON (CP) Fire broke oat tn liner Queen Elisabeth in dry dock here tonight but was doused quickly. The Queen Elisabeth is the world's largest ship. Damage was confined to some staterooms. Officials went aboard immediately to start an investigation. cent increase In wages, an escalator, clause, reduction from 48 to 40 in weekly hours for men In yard service without reduo-tion in pay, as well as certain rule changes. "The railways in turn requested a number of rule changes which would provide more efficient operation, without making any reduction in the employees' rates of pay." The railway president recalled that negotiation were started at the same time with The union, which originally sought a 35-pcr-cent Increase, favored a 20-per-cent proposal made in the minority report of the conciliation board. The railways' 12-per-cent proposal would provide an increase of about 15i cents an hour. The men 'now get a basic rate of $1 20 an hour and an average of $1.66. In their telegram to the labor minister. Donald Gordon, CNR president, and W. A. Mather, CPR president, explain- Mis Bea Grant, proprietor of Caldwell Sees Performance Of His Play ,$94 018 for $340,000 of the requir-i ed $675 000 for the new automatic j telephone system. The $675.000 ; : bears Interest at per cent. j j Remainder of the issue will bej i taken up on an optional basis in i the following manner: $100,000 ; : on July I at $95: $100,000 on Jan. i ' 1. 1954, at $95.50 and $135,000 on ; lisenhower Will Find Ways the Stork Shoppy In Prince Ru-pert. also spent Tuesday nicht at Bandspll. after returning from a buying trip to Vancouver. 1 The five-day-old baby returned with Us fiither. who resides in VANCOUVER O1 A special July 1. 19.54 at $96 per $100. Carbon Dioxide Gas Well Found Offers from the Bank of Mon-' performance of "Tobacco Road" HI CP) Mat Dulles said these wars go on Terraer, and Its nurse after fly-breausc the enemy thinks he's i,, Vancouver the day after trcal, which made only a firm was staged here Tuesday for a filter Dull. J-i lit- bid. and Pemberum securities one-man audience, author Er- Kns.iiin recline i netting an Advantage" out of u. hirth for soeclal medical ob- VANCOUVER (CP) Oas-lco and associates, were turned down skine Cadwell, ed that "no basis appears to other employees, sucn a eugi-exlst that can be considered i neers. Talks witft CNR conduc-falr " They stated the union was I tors and firemen also started unwilling to Join in referring j then. While settlement in these the matter to a referee to set-1 cases were reached, negotiations tie the points of difference. j with the trainmen tell through "Our efforts to negotiate a; end boards of conciliation were new contract with the trainmen established, have been continuous since the! "Although the conciliation contracLs were opened last Feb- j boards' reports recommended a ruary" they said. "The requests wage increase on the basis ot by tiie union were for a 35-per-i see STRIKE Page Five ! ! collapse and die ! them nervation. India, .stn.it" rauM-d by "I believe." he said, "thai The minute child weighing in swallow free iM.fi f .r!ii.r:il t.'Kt'nhiivL-rr will 'find fin.. mninrU u-u hirn with I announced Tuesday night it has met for three hours yesterday; ,l'lne? , . I in two carbon-dioxide nftemn-.n m ennsirier the bids, i "" "Ju t,,c V1, " ; the ways to make the enemy a defect to Its spine, but Van- urouB'1' his novel of the same name gas wells In the Shuswap area , As soon as McMahon and Burns !i hi' 1ms indicated jt I'ii Mfli'nl Kisenhower He will appear today as a for the defence in the cast of interior British Columbia, i KOl delivery of the debentures, it l,..n nn M.IU.a nfirtHituct. nf :,. I !. v.ts to ston the warn " ' " " 'ur.aru rsu v ... ,,.,. frliilmPrt Evervman ReDCr change his mind in that respect couver doctors say nothing can so that they too will want be done. The child may be crip-peace " pled for life. In his first foreign-policy ad- Among others stranded are ore. is as stale secretary. Dulles Ken Hill and Ken Anderson, the said Tuesday night fighting in former from Prince Rupert, the i aiid tndo-China. Th'rRHtish r,nhitt.Alberta ! .. uriU5 "fr5l Utry Company's production of the - , ,;, o. irm ma oi sin on uie Diay. v. nun sum ' wnterwnrlt. hnrls and S96 on the mi... t - Mr,H n lth ' .. . -. - - r ,viT dl.llia At V Vliuivu " , used In the manufacture of dry the Far East was part of the latter of Smlthers. They were wcil Appoints ! Ice, was the first made in Canada and promises to open a new-Industry in the province. soo.uuu. otnn ott au-uaji ufuu" ' participnttng to a lewa ana The Batik of Montreal made obscene" performance while the a firm bid of $93.10 on the entire director, producer and theatre amount. operator' are charged with per- Alderman Ray McLean, finance nlittine an indecent show. ty Clerk Soviet strategy of encirclement e-'rortliiR prisoners to Vancouver aimed at isolating the United Bob Wlngen. enroute to install Rtat.es. a new engine In the flshpacker He predicted the U.S. and its Jenny Mack, broken down near allies would defeat that strategy. : prince Rupert and now In dry- ting-Assessor committee chairman, sata mem- dock here. bers didn't "entertain the Pem-berton offer too greatly because the city had sought firm bids, although Pemberton's $96 on the entire $675,000 Issue is three polnU above the present market." Council to Hold Special Meet Thursday Art Vokes. a Toronto Type Foundry machinist will look over 'equipment at DIbb Printing, and Doug Robinson of Nanalmo Is on , a regular tour of Inspection of a section of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation's 50- Youth Hangs Despite Plea To Queen British Jet Sets Record DARWIN, Australia (CP) Britain's Canberra Jet bomber, already conqueror of the Atlantic speed records, today established another mark hy flying from t'l' -ik Hill Long last night 1 "'imiitMi acting city assrss- ''! ubs -nee ol Hairy M. ' 't. who is in. 1 "WMMntiiient was made to !,nal)y In lino with ; of i ho Municipal Act ar.jvMeius. Mi'tiitav niiihr. .,., home Drojvct his company is He said the committee recommended acceptance of the McMahon and Burns offer as outlined to council Monday night by Don Johnston, the firm's repre- constructing In Prince Rupert of Prince A special meeting LONDON (CP) A 19-year-old CARE has been .Rupert city council sentatlvB from Vancouver, "be Itrlton was hanged tot '. for Thursday night My WWJe M p(H)ple ,d thecalled 8 p.m. England to . . Australia more than 8.000 miles in less than a cause the definite dates specified In their offer gives us the bal dav. U'liR was appointed i"""u" ,u" " , , others who have been forced to "o aiscuss a proyuo. oy spUe a ,ramft lc "'T T B.C. Power Company Limited for hi., appear before the lengthen trips by several days i ('"' ol p,v U""" for hl3 1Ue 10 tne Quwn- Ire anxious nxiM to to complete their future power supplies. . I "1 .u"ll The youth Derek Bentley. took Xne clty 80lltltor Thomas W. ance as needed and will save the city more than $15,000 in Liter- The twin-jet whizzed down at this north Australian port just 22 hours and one minutes after est.1 nart in a holdup in ! thev are appreciative of the good The recommendation received Brown, QC, will attend. , The company. In a letter to the city on Monday, said that If the care they received from air lines leaving London. unanimous approval of council j Kupert this year be raised ";n 7. i r cent above the ments, except In causes ""'Ii property Ls city wishes to renew the present agreement "with certain provisos or reservations, the company ls Truman Doubts Russians Have Workable A-Bomb prepared to negotiate a settle f erals May ment . . . providing the company receives such notice in writing from the city. a Laina in the White House Mr. Truman Agreement between the city policeman was killed. 1 Bent ley's companion, who uctutilly fired the fatal shot, escaped with an indeterminate prison sentence because he was only IS years old. Bentley was hanged at grim Wandsworth Prison while a booing, Shouting crowd demonstrated outside the walls. He went to the gallows despite an appeal by his friends to the Queen that she override her cabinet advisers and stay the execution. Earlier, Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfo rejected a clemency plea signed by more than 200 members of ' employees. "Of course this is annoying and it probably would never happen if we had an airport in Prince Rupert but we are being well looked after and I think lot of the CPA's safety record in flying, said Dr. Large. The Prince Rupert doctor did think, however, that airlines officials in Canada as a whole should be more explicit in their dealings with the flying public. "We should be told what tn ex-nect and why we are held up. I announced intelligence reports r'COUVER (CP) The Van- of nuclear blasts inside Red M:' s ... and NBCPC expires in Wdtrii, 1954. It has been effect for 25 territory. ' - n said Tuesday nine '""t B.C Liberals have n a movement t rtrf. A..t years. He added that his belief does not mean that "we should for KANSAS CITY (CP) Former President Truman said Tuesday there was some doubt in his mind that the Russians had developed a workable A-bomb. "I've said that time and time again," he told reporters. "Some peopie disagree with me about it, but that Is their right." On two occasions while he was n minute let down our guard ... .amuuver tsoutn, Provincial party leader. Request from city lawyer Doug Hogarth to renew a chaffeur's licence to cHy taxi driver Roman Potvln pending outcome of his appeal against its cancellation RON JOHNSON, Edmonton newspaper man, tried to prove it's no feat bathing outdoors In winter by taking a 15-below-zero dunking in the McLeod River, 160 miles west of Edmonton. Johnson was on an RCAF survival course. Friends who chopjteU the nolo aiao obliged with a pall of water over Johrun's shivering shoulders. (CP from National Defence). b.il(J llu 1.... I will - .... invifrniujj be resnlvnH "Keeping up our strength is the bcrt thin? we ever did." he added, referring to the continuing research on A-bombs. know, will also be dealt with at the ronvi-ntion here Feb. 27 think passengers snouta this and not be kept In the dark." I meeting.