G. (Nik) Canadian monwealth our south- y to f the $25 ,000,- ian Leader ur B.C. ge Drew, ic ie Progres- will in Octo ere Thurs party der plans a during everal yur if throughout } et whether but will Rupert, ne that Prime is due Sun- te to A 1 by who this © Minister lay and after a and Powell ead for Prince Ru- ', arriving there nh. Sunday, os & omox the airport Pplewhaite, Liberal | ent for the peaks at a ns the evening. leaves by ght for Smith- a short address hermen Take | pte on Strike on, Operators Deadlocked Fall Chum Salmon Prices fishermen will take a strike vote at in | the Civie Centre, » United Fishermen and Allied || | Workers Union, | 1 ; i da this | | last If a strike is approved, it will start at midnight Sunday Union officials said the vote follows failure to settle fall! i ichum prices to fishermen affects all net fishermen in B.C The UFAWU and Association of B.C | terday | Union said the canners offer- ed 5% cents a pound for chums, }compared with last year’s prices ;of 11 cents in Johnstone Straits and the Fraser River, nine cents j in the central and.» northern jareas, and eight cents in the |} Queen Charlottes | CHUM STARTING Homer Stevens, secretary- j | treasurer of the UFAWU( said: “The fall chum season is just} | starting. The run will be at its! height within the next week. “Our men have no choice. It alone make a living at present fish prices.” The canners claim much of year’s pack is still unsold and that fhey cannot afford to| pay 1951 prices Fishermen in southern cen- tres are voting. today. QCI Areas Open ‘Canada Favors Korean For Fishing The south and central Queen | Charlotte Island areas will be re-opened to salmon purse sein- ers and salmon gilinet fishing this Sunday, the fisheries de- partment announced today, The two areas have been closed | igr two wééks for conse tvation | of pink salmon, ~—WEATHER— Synopsis Wind velocities of per hour with gusts sixty-five miles per hour are being reported from the Queen Charlotte Islands this morning. This is in advance of a very active Pacific storm which will pass over the north coast this morning and the south coast to- night. fifty miles as high as' Rain has already spread over the north coast and northern Vancouver Island and will spread over the whole coast by evening. Showers will reach the northern interior this afternoon and the southern interior tomorrow. As the storm moves inland some improvement in weather will follow but actual clearing will be slow so that most of the province will be cloudy and showery Saturday. Forecast Gale warning in effect. Cloudy. Rain this morning, showers this atfernoon and Saturday. A little cooler, Winds southeast (35) shifting gradually to southwest (25) by evening and decreasing to southwest (20) Saturday, Low tonight and high tomorrow at a plane for! Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 55 and 60. st Achievement of All Times’ merican Journalist Marvels at Alcan Project urnalist, H y des scribed the | oo Company of p one of the 1 ments of all visiting the work- Nat, Kast and West flying over the Msite, power line and Kemano Ba —_ . magnificent ‘ONS, bold in its Conception and ex- Ttant to the future ' Canada and the Said the writer, he project and methods of ac- task were es- Di ale Mr. Kalten- his first trip to ert since 1923, he s “pleasantly sur- ‘he changes and Hoof this part of in radio com- | Object of his journey, which V | Started about three weeks ago, was to obtain background infor- | mation for his writings. DECIDED ON CANADA Mr. Kaitenporn, who was ac- companied by his wife, said he could have made a trip to Asia or Europe “or any other place but because Canada is so much in the public eye and with a war-threatened world before us, we decided to stay closer to home and make a survey of your coun- try.” Describing his visit to the Al- can sites, he said “creating of-a townsite for a possible popula- tion of 50,000 people is a tre- mendous endeavour, although it is quite incidental to the main project.” Both he and Mrs, Kaltenborn noted particularly a sifting ma- chine which is making: giant stockpiles of gravel to be used in construction of roads and buildings, it was an-|} Iti} Fisheries | | held a fruit- || | less meeting in Vancouver yes-| | is impossible to meet costs, let! newscasts and | Che —srd@ he, NJ a LIBRARY Daih NORTHERN AND CENTRAL —— COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL, XLI, No. 209 | i 7 ome, i“ Snel] of Paris, Ont., | e A WET DROP—The 27 datetheesiits of the Royal Canadian Artillery (Light Battery) end their mass parachute drop in Lake Ontario at the waterfront of the Canadian Nationa] Exhibition. All three armed services took part in the drop with the RCAF providing troop transport planes and the’RCN the rescue craft to pick up the men who landed in the water. Capt. in charge of the drop, made the first jump | to test the wind. Before landing in the water the paratroopers | pull a cartridge which inflates their lifebelts before touching. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 y News PRICE FIVE CENTS First Japanese VANCOUVER @ — First landed here today with her MacMillan, formerly Toasako Infantry Medicine Hat, married Japanese women. Wilfred | Peace River country. He also urged the federal ;government to pay one-third (CP from National Defence) |the cost of the new Marpole Truce, Says | bridge, a vital link with Van- ;couver’s International Airport, jand aid Britain to buy B.C. lum- ber, fish and fruit. He listed a six-point program, j | | Pte. MacMillan is one of si : i | | Canuck Soldier Brings. Home Warbride Canadian Japanese warbride husband. She is Mrs. E. R. Matsuno of Kure, Japan, and Wife of a private in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light The couple will live in Pte. MacMillan’s hometown of ix Canadian soldiers who have Bennett Asks: Federal Aid for B. C. Growth - VANCOUVER (CP)—Premier W. A. C. Ben- ‘nett Thursday called on the federal government to assist in the development of British Columbia by) \tuilding the Pacific Great Eastern Railway into the| Steel Plant Mooted For North Shore movtucra, oro QRMES TCTNAIT ausvrats £ Two men escaped de Thitt 4 : suid y The explosion is believed to have been set off by an over- heated oil stove in the galley’ of the wharf. Ken Richardson, who was in charge of the $50,000 vessel, and a deckhand, whose name is not known, rushed aboard and at- tempted to douse the flames but were driven back. Both suffered sore throats from smoke but did not re- quire hospital treatment. The flames shot more than 50 feet into the air and could be seen for several miles, The charred and still burning lick was rammed by a seine boat in order to sink her on a |sandbar and douse the fire. The jeruiser is believed to be a total “loss. The Naskeena went to Met- lakatla, on the mainland about six miles north of Prince Ru- pert, earlier in the day with an the ship while the men were on| St. Laurent But Must be ‘Peace with Honor’ By The Canadian Press 8 VICTORIA.—Canada favors a negotiated truce 1 Korea along the present battle lines provided it can be a “peace with honor,” | Laurent said today. ? In |livery before the en's Canadian Club, said “We recognize that the Unit- ed Nations action took on a different aspect with the inter- vention of China. To gain uni-| fication of the entire peninsula for Koreans would now require such a large deployment of forces and energy that our de- fences against Communist ag- gression elsewhere in the world would be seriously weakened “More important yet, the Chi- nese intervention has brought the risk of the Korean action developing into a full-scale war. If that were to happen—and we a speech prepared for de- Victoria Wom- St. Laurent | pray it won’t—our purpose for intervention in Korea in the first place—to punish os ehg sion and by so doing prevent global war—would be de nates! “For these reasons we favor aj} negotiated truce along the pres- | ent battle lines provided it can| be a peace with honor.’ St. Laurent discussed not only| Korea but also Canada’s rela- | tions with Japan and Southeast | Asia FISHERIES TREATY The Prime Minister said government intends to submit Prime Minister St. | the Canada-U.S.- Japan fisher- ies agreement to Parliament at the next session. | i } | and said he wished .to speak out for the people of B.C. while | Prime Minister St. Laurent, now lon a tour of the province, is ee to listen. “Ottawa must realize there > been great expansion and | population growth in this prov- ince,” Bennett said. country, anid it’s up té*the fed- ,eral government to participate in further development.” Public To “B.C. has tained new importance in this VANCOUVER (CP) — A big/RCMP constable to investigate chemical firm and a large iron|a report that two natives are and steel manufacturing com-| missing off a seine boat. pany are considering establish-| She was tied up alongside ing plants in North Vancouver) several seiners when the ex- if ratepayers there approve the} plosion occurred. leasing of the Second Narrows| Fishermen rushed to move Bridge to the Canadian Na-|their boats and towed the Nas- tional Railways. keena into open water when This was disclosed Thursday|they found the flames could not by Norman. J. MacMillan. ofjbe’ controlled, and planned. to Montreal, vice-president and/beach her. general counsel for the CNR,| Shortly after they left the who is making a tour of the|wharf, a second explosion, be- west. lieved caused when the flames Mr. MacMillan said he felt it|Teached a can of gasoline, blew improper to disclose names of|® hole through the cabin section jout a scheme whereby certain “We have, we hope, worked Meet Premier ‘At Navy Hall A highlight of Prime Minister Laurent’s visit here Sunday | will be the public reception held types of fish—salmon, halibut, ; herring—which mean so much | to the livelihood of many people! who live in British Columbia, | will not be taken by the Japan- | ese in the eastern Pacific near| s+ Canadian shores.” the companies but said neither is at present established in B.C,, He said the two firms have| inquired seriously about avail- of Burrard Inlet, lieves the move heralds a vast industrial expansion east, along the north side of the inlet from ability of land on the north side | and he be-| and the entire boat became a mass of flames. ‘While moving the doomed vessel to shore, she sank in deep water. Then she was rammed. The RCMP constable was con- ducting dragging operations nearby for Peter Hilerata, 40, and eight-year-old Gordon } } Display Warns — OSLO, Norway (CP)—More than | 160 allied warships, including | eight big aircraft carriers, begin | jmanoeuvres off Scandinavia next week, warning Russia that | the West is ready to defend the! seas even up to the Arctic Cir- | cle. Officially known as “Opera- tion Mainbrace,” the 13-day war games will be one of the largest) displays of allied naval might) since, the Second World War. | nificent will participate. 1 While admitting he had seen many large construction jobs in his travels, he said he had never seen “anything done on such a gigantic scale.” | Speaking of Nechako dam jwhich will turn a whole water- shed from one direction to an- other, Mr. Kaltenborn said the project is almost indescribable. And he was amazed at con- struction of a supply station’ at East Tahtsa Lake ‘where they are building a road through completely undeveloped coun- try.” Size of machinery in opera- tion caught his eye particularly. Dropping down on West Tahtsa Lake, he said, “they are driving a 10-mile hole through a mountain like you would drive a hole through a log.” He was taken 3,000 feet into the tunnel where he talked with several workers. Mrs. Kaltenborn did not enter jthe tunnel. , Later the couple flew over Kikiala where huge towers are being constructed to carry power to Kitimat. DRAMATIC SIGHT After watching men and ma- terials being lowered to the top of the mountains between Kem- ano and Kitimat he said “it is without question the most dra- matic sight in the world.” “I think the entire project is one of the greatest achievements of man.” 4 Mr, and Mrs. Kaltenborn this morning were taken on a tour of the Columbia Cellulose plant at Port Edward and visited B.C. Packers huge cold storage plant at Seal Cove. They were escorted on their tour by T. Norton Youngs, president of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce. They were scheduled to leave by CPA for Vancouver this af- ternoon and after a day-long visit there are heading for Mont- real and the iron ore develop- ment in Labrador before return- ing to New. York. jin his honor at the Navy drill hall, Allied Naval under the auspices of the officers of HMCS Chatham. The public is invited to come and shake hands with the | Prime Minister and stay for tea | which will be served in the drill | hall annex. “This is strictly non-political, we want to give Prince Rupert | people a chance to meet their Prime Minister,” said Lt. Cdr. |T. A. Johnstone, acting com- ;manding officer of Chatham. ‘Chuchmen Vote ‘To Retain Name | .LONDON, Ont. CP)—The Gen- }eral Synod of the Church of his|Canada’s aircraft carrier Mag-|England in Canada on Thurs- ‘day voted 119 to 106 to retain the name of the church. An amendment would have chang- ed the name to “Anglican Church in Canada.” LT.-COL. ROBERT H. RAM- SAY, 36, of Toronto and Ottawa has been appointed to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s head- quarters in Paris. A supply ex- perty Lt.-Col. Ramsay is the first Canadian officer of his rank to be named to the head- quarters of the Supreme Com- mander Allied Power in Europe. (CP Photo) Leighton, who were reported missing off the seiner Invercan IV. The Invercan IV came to Second Narrows Bridge. DRUGS «: DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 $50,000 Cruiser Burns ‘ At Dock, No One Injured . Afire, Naskeena Sinks at Metlakatla: Total Loss ath or serious injury late when an explosion and fire destroyed the {8-ioot Department of Indian Affairs cruiser Nas- keena off Metlakatla wharf. Hilerata in attempting to save | him was carried to his death by a strong tide reported running past the village at that time. Dragging operations will be resumed this morning. The constable and two sur- vivors of the doomed cruiser were brought to Prince Rupert by the Salt Mist, the Forestry Service cruiser which rushed F. E. Anfield, Indian agent, to the scene of the boat fire. Mr. Richardson was placed under doctor’s supervision in a private home, The Naskeena was built about 20 years ago for the Department of Indian Affairs and was used by officials of the department here to visit various native vil- lages along the Skeena and Naas rivers. LEADS FIGHTERS — Group Capt. J. K. L. MacDonald of Antigonish, N.S., will command Canada’s fighter wing to be based near Metz, France under North Atlantic Treaty. com- mand. He has left Montreal with the advance party. The ~ three-squadron wing will be established in the fall, (CP from National Defence). Prince Rupert Wednesday for supplies and after returning to Metlakatla the crew left while Hilerata and the boy stayed be- hind to unload supplies. They were reported missing |about 9:30 Wednesday. Natives believe the boy may Prime Minister Opens UBC law Building VANCOUVER (€P)—The stand lp MONTREAL WINS SOCCER WINNIPEG (CP) — Montreal Stelcos Thursday night won the Canadian soccer championship by defeating New Westminster Royals 2-0 in the third game of a best-of-three series. Royals that jurisdiction over education| *S=¢ fallen overboard and that won the first game of the series. should remain with the provinces | was reiterated here last night by | Prime Minister St. Laurent as he spoke to men of this pre- —— profession, St. Laurent touched briefly but forcefully on the subject as) he formally opened the modern-| istic $320,000 law faculty build-! ing at the University of British, Columbia. “Legal education like other forms of education, is and should remain within provincial jurisdiction,” he said. Following his speech, the Prime Minister was presented with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. wage dispute. Theatres May Shut Down As Union Threatens Picket Lines VANCOUVER @ — Possibility of -a shutdown of all 48 Vancouver theatres arose Thursday from the continuing Orin Jacobson, national vice-president of the Film He change Workers Union, said all theatres might be picketed. This would force them to close, he said; because “theatre employees woul dnot cross our picket lines.” Some 50 union members have been picketing the Film Exchange, distribution centre for films, since August 16. Tomorrow morning is the Big will be used as Day for anglers who want to get into Prince Rupert’s big contest for big fish. The first annual Prince Ru- pert Salmon Derby opens at 7 a.m. and anyone who catches and enters a heavy salmon— either coho or spring—from then on until October 13 is in line to get one or more big prizes. The Salmon Derby committee has approved this method for announcing prize money and merchandise which will go to the winners in each of the three separate types of derbies. Objective of prize-money is $1200. All money received from entry fees with the exception of ing expenses, prize money. The more money that comes in from entry fees, the bigger the prizes will be. Here how it will work if the objective of $1200 is reached: 1. First prize for the largest coho and the largest spring salmon in the five-week Gen- eral Derby (Sept. 6-Oct. 10) will be $150. Second prize will be $75. 2. First prize for largest coho and spring entered in each of the five one-week derbies will be $25. Second prize, merchan- dise. 3. First prize for winning coho and spring salmon in the Grand Derby (Oct. 11-13) will be $250 each. Second, third and fourth prizes will be merchan- First Salmon Derby Opens Tomorrow; Watch ‘Thermometer’ for Prize Money All city merchants are being canvassed for donations of mer- chandise prizes. If the prize money should go over the $1200 objective, of course the cash prizes will in- crease respectively, says the derby committee. - A running account of the derby prize money “thermome- ter” will be published each day. Entry blanks beginning Sat- urday will be available at the weighing-in” station — Bacon Fisheries at Hunt's Float, and at all major sporting goods and men’s wear stores in the city. Watch tomorrow’s edition of The Daily News for a complete list of rules and_ regulations a small percentage for advertis- | dise. covering the Salmon Derby. *0 “i e a