nIT l i ii rrnr -villi - id PA WHFAT SON T The Ministry of 3 Ottawa Monday to v ih the Canadian gov-r an agreement for a t wheat for the United 1 Lo idon Star said that would impress on the rovernment officials ' v of Britain recetvins of extra tons of wheat "Z ,vie next few weeks. TJie nf added: "If he falls. ib"vt food committee will m- the nextiew weeks -1p whether to put machinery Into opera- 0NDON W In the matter of ' tut "re -talus of Germany. fPt Britain and United States r i federation of German 1 ",f" France would absorb 1 2) basin. flftrv a mmrm - - - m m 1 IVI I 1 Bm L I 1IUI 1 IV 1 LU WlFAX Prime Minister v Kin?., returning today B' 'ain. .said the food slt- m Europe was "extreme-"r u " There would be re- .OH:, In hl rnnnt.rv tf CiiM ...... i t -- vi r a it onwn snDimenws ui 'briad. He had cut short v it. abroad becnu.sp .of problems" at home. Local Tides Sundav .Tnno 1fi 104ft I , . . " 1 -ei on R fprt ' 14:59 17.9 feet tikoe no foof 20:32 8.1 feet CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL FISHING Charged with fUhln? halibut in Area Two after the close of the season as set by the International Fisheries Commission, Capt. Henry Doiron of the halibut boat Seamaid appeared in city police court Friday afternoon and was remanded until Monday for hearing after.he entered a plea of not guilty. Doiron Is alleged by Fisheries Inspector Capt. C. W. Earnshaw to have be-n fishing halibut off Marble I.land on the west coast of the Quen Charlottes on June 12, ! Area Two closed to halibut flsh-: in? at midnight. June 11. Mystery Ship At Port Said Transport Devonshire Linked With Movements of Grand Mufll of Jerusalem CA1KO (CP) The British transpoit Devonshire today entered Port Said after being: delayed 24 hours by an unexplained series of incidents. All troops on boaid wore life jackets. Numbers of military police wete observed. A senior naval officer declined to give information on the Devonshire, saying: "This is now a priority secret." The Devonshire has . been linked with the movements of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who secretly left Tails May 30 and has been reported in Damascus. BIDAULT IS RE-ELECTED PARIS ff -George Bldault Is atraln the Premier of France, havln bee nratlflcd by the Na tlon Assembly yesterday. The new President of France will be elected next week. Azerbaijan Is In With Iran Again TEHRAN O The province of Azerbaijan has returned to the unccd yesterday that!fol(j wth jran with a hey. food minister, j al although not separate gov ernment. WAS KILLED ON HIGHWAY APHCROFT. Vh Dr. F. A. Butler, dentist of Mission and famed i N e w Westminster basketball player in the late twenties, was killed and F. A. Farr of Matsqul was injured when their car plunged over a cliff near here. Three other men escaped injury. MIHAILOVIC BROKEN MAN Contradictory in Evidence Denies Collaboration ,Was Organized BELGRADE fl The court trying General Draja Mihallovlc. Chetnlk leader, on charger, of treason and collaboration, today refused to accede to defence request to call United States aviators as witnesses. The request was opposed not only by the prosecutor but by Mihallovlc himself "on principle!" Mihallovlc told the court that he had never collaborated with the enemy. Collaboration, he suggested, Implied organization and there was no such organization. Defendant admitted there were contradictions in his statements as a result of physical ux haustlon and he was suffeiinc j from anaemia. Mihallovlc testified that he gave Great Britain informal n op German's V-l Jet-propelled flying bombs In 1913, th? year before the robot attacks started TURN DOWN INDIA PLAN Congress Opposes British Cabinet Committee Pioposals NEW DELHI The All-India Congress last night finally re jected the British cabinet committee plan for independence of India. 'The--prindpar objectlon of the Congress was that the Moslem League would be given equal representation. In spite of the statement in reliable sources that the All-India Congress party had rejected the British plan for Hindu-Moslem parity in the proposed interim government the British cabinet mission is still hopeful of effecting a The cabinet delegation conferred again today with Viceroy Wavell but subjects discussed were not disclosed. It Is believed they Include new supplementary proposals and that the conferees have been In contact with Premier Attlee In Britain. Britain will announce her "last word" tomorrow In the deadlock, a highly-placed source said The spokesman added that an "Imposed peace" probably would usher In Indian NO WORD ON BUDGET OTTAWA Hon. J. L. Ilsley, minister of finance, cannot say when the budget may be brought down. tL 1 RED TOP CABS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL B arnsH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 1 . .. r-T--U ' A . B.C. 1 TAXI TAXI A. W Phone JJIJ Phone j RASPER C. McINTYRE tl MM 537 Tobacco Store eland: Rupert DAY and NIQHT SERVICE (across from Ormes) AND NIOIIT 6ERV Bill and Ken Nesbitt DAY ' Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXV, No. 140. PRINCE RUPERT. B.C.. SATURDAY. JUNE 15, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS Woods" CO-' " LI II'V w JVIflV Settled irrLnro iinv iia naru Avain Ncxl VceK llowing Latest Meetings Victoria i-, ,n : a -linnp innt tnp would be back t i: i - n xt, week were ex-. following a meet-riftrrnoon ol an Woodworkers of : :tUnn With th i? Gmrge Pearson, b r. said: "We are i t possibly can r b parties together srm together until ttlr1 I must be i;it the govern-' rro the )jartl? -, b-i!-ry ior arbltra- ndv to function t si'-an we hav m-n we etui set workers' dele-fullest consid-"f simn reeommer-T di-pute must be id: "We fell th - for progress." A I W A executive is i Vanrouver tomor-, i;ttst propo!ili v conference with I 1 "We have stood : fi iv; and. If neces- ','nd solid for an-2y " said Harold I I on the latest de- -he lumber strike. f"r the operators. ' r- if ion of the oper- i 'Ar. abundantly clear j Me Prilchett Thurs-! he arrppts the Sloan th mn b'ack to ! ;"n an agreement " : Marrh." follow- j 'Tiiri u"-is!and yes- ; oon. nflrkd aloB and Into OJbvern-1 ' id on to the Par-V ' ' 1 ' n c s . The narad" v tif n.000 Instead of 1 v ' "li had been oriT-ird There was a driv-" n". the parade. Tli -Mre nd bv HaroM Mn ;.u;;tv Plains las' T -''k will break up ig; Tour rarley ., . -r,. i .n.it.wTAKESNOC'IANJES IN IRAN -Azi'rDiuja .-, premier. Jaalar Plshevari centre, dressed in a Soviet-style army uniform, grips the arm of a Democrat officer at his right during a close guard malnalned over him on hi., rcc-nt arrival by plane at Teheran. Iran, 'at the head of the Azerbaijan mission. AzorbalC i. provii-ce was seeking autonomy from the rest of Iran. esume ROYALTY SEEKS MIRACULOUS CURE Amidst cojorful church1- c -'mc lie before thouanda of lame and sick pll grim. aIoi i Cardinal Masela, top, crowned the image of Our Lady of Tatima ut the Bas;lica of Fatima at Lisbon, Portugal. The imi:t is uid to po ses mlr. culous powers for curing the &ick. On thr bottom, ii, Princess Orleans Bourbon with her blind daughter, seated before the Image. She Is the wife of Jjpn Juan, pretender to the throce jjj-ispaln. Maritime Workers' Win Out Settlement of Big Industrial Dispute in United States Came Even As Walk-Out Was Starting WASHINGTON, D.C. Constituting a big victory for the workers, the maritime labor dispute was settled last night almost at the very moment when the nation-wide shipping strike was to begin. Granville Conway, war shipping administra tor, told reporters that an agreement had been "signed and sealed." Harry Bridges and William Curran announced that their own upions had reached agreements subject to ratification of the membership. They ald the terms won by the Union Included a forty-hour week for seamen. $17.50 monthly pay increase retroactive to April 1, all work performed on Sunday at sea to be paid on an overtime basis. For longshoremen the pay increase is 22c pe rhour. Radio operators get a wage increase of $17.50 per month with overtime after a 48-hour week. Bridges said the operators had agreed to pay by October 30, $8,OCO,000 to $10,000,000 retroactive Increase to longshoremen. A spokesman for snip operators said tne terms of settlement of the strjke Involved a "staggering handicap" which might endanger the continuation of United States operated shipping. The general maritime workers' strike in the United States was actually on for a time, having commenced at midnight last night when the deadline came without general announcement at that time that the union demands being met. How long it would take to get men back at work was rather confused at the start. Earlier yesterday there had been word that the government was shoving ship operators aside In seeking to end the threat of the maritime strike on its own term3 at the last minute. The government terms were expected then to "boll down" to about a 3 percent pay boost with no reduction In hours. RELEASE IS DEMANDED Durants Deny Any Criminal Act in Connection With Crown Jewels WASHINGTON-COL Jack Durant and Capt Kathleen! Nash Durant denied through counsel today that they had admitted any act which they considered criminal" In connection with the Kranberg Castle Jewel case. Counsel for the Durants said ho had demanded copies t of charges, "if any." against the couple and that they be released from . custody. The Durants are held in con nection with the removal of the Hesse royal Jewels worth $1,-500.C00. k; . DANE'S IDEA A Danish pasimaster. Elner Hclboll. conceived the idea of the Christmas tuberculosis sea: dlnP VANCOUVER SWAMrED VANCOUVER Vancouver was nigh swamped with 1.3 inches of rain in 21 hours. June rainfall here appears headed to break all records. QUEEN MARY DOCKS HALIFAX The liner Queen Mary docked here tody, carrying more than 2000 wives and children of Canadian servicemen and I'rimc Minister King, returning fiom the Empire Prime Ministers' conference in London. f CARTER IN JAPAN OTTAWA The Minister of Fisheries announces that Dr. Neal Carter, director of the. Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, will spend six months in Japan to study fishing methods. He is being attached to General Douglas Mac-Arthur's srfcntiflcfstafff FIERCE FIGHTING MUKDEN Iii spite of the declared truce, there is fieice fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces. Communists have wiped out half of a Nationalist bridgehead near Harbin and have made attacks near the port of Tsingtao where United States Marines ate stationed. SETTLEMENT DUE TORONTO Settlement of the Great Lakes seamen's strike is expected early next week. CONFERENCE RESUMES PPARIS The conference of Big Four foreign ministers resumed here today but none of the conferees ate particularly hopeful of success. IN HOCKEY LOOP NELSON Three Los Angeles teams and one from Spokane will join the Kootenay Hockey League next winter, it is announced. TRIAL NEAR END MONTREAL The trial of Fred Rose, M.P., on espionage conspiracy charges is nearing its end and may be over by tills afternoon. Addtesses to the jury were presented this morning and deliberation on the verdict is now on. MORE JAPS COMING VANCOUVER The second contingent of Japanese for reparation to their homeland will sail ftom here tomorrow night on the American steamer General Mead. ACETYLENE PLANT VANCOUVER A $300,000 acetylene plant is to be built here by the Dominion Oxygen Co. NEW RATION BOOKS OTTAWA New ration books will be issued between September 9 and IS. "Continued rationing is Canada's answer to the world's cry for help," said D.onaUl Goidon, chairman of the prices and trade board, in making the announcement. WISMEK LEAVES VANCOUVER Attorney-General .Gordon Wismcr leaves this week-end for New York where he will embark on the Queen Mary to appear before ans Foreign Ministers To Try Again to Settle Vexed Peace Problem PARIS (CP) Big Four foreign ministers met aga'n today for ano;her attempt to hammer their war-joined swords into machinery for world peace. Ernest Bevin of Great Britain, James Byrnes of United States, V. Molotov of Russia and George Bidault of France will attempt to break the impasse "J fwhlch prevented the writing of Bulletins world peace treaties at their last session. American circles said tliat the ministers were just as deadlocked today on how peace treaties should be written as they were when they left Paris less than a month ago. Britain and the United States are expected to press for quick action on the' peace treaties, freedom oj transport on the Danube, on evacuation of armies from Austria and the Balkans and on the restoration of a semblance of 'government In Germany without giving Germany the chance to menace Europe again. STATEMENT BY IMPERIAL OIL Comnany Sets Forth Its Position In Seamen's Strike t . NTO W. F. Prendergast of Impsrlal Oil Co. Ltd. announced --yesterday that the company naa received a -leiier from J. A. "Pat" Sullivan, president of the Canadian Seamen's Union, as follows: "Enclosed you will find copy of a letter which this organization proposes to sent out to the entire trade union movement on Saturday morning, June 15, unless your company Is prepared to sit down and negotiate an agreement with our organization on behalf of the unlicensed seamen." Copy of the letter referred to was addressed to provincial federations of labor, trades and labor councils and affiliated unions throughout Canada and stated this company had refused to negotiate with Canadian seamen's Union and, accordingly, the union was organizing a picket line on as many as possible of Imperial Oil's stations from coast to coast. Help of membership In recog nizing Imperial Oil as "unfair to organized labor" was asked by Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Prendergast's statement went on: "This Is a development of the seamen's strike on the Great Lakes. Seamen of some carriers are striking for the three-watch system, that Is an eight-hour day with four hours on watch and eight off, aid for other arrangements. There is no strike by Imperial Oil seamen because they already have completed the three-watch system. This went into effect on Imperial Oil tankers Immediately following approval of application made to the National War Labor Board by this company In November last. "While our crews are not on strike It became necessary to tie up our lake tankers since June 7 because of menaces ar.3 ictual acts of violence by plcketeis. For Tod TdCARRY ON FIGHT ay Maritime Workers to Insist Upon International Shipping Authorities SEATTLE, CP) Spokesmen for the workers' group of the World Maritime Conference say that the fi.iht for an international shipping, authority will be carried to the conference floor regardless of the resolutions committee. The workers are seeking creation of authority to regulate and allocate shipping tonnage among the nations. The plan Is opposed by government and employer delegates. . REACTION ON ATOMIC PLAN British Foreign Office Describes American Proposal' As "Admirable" LONDON B There has been little expression as yet of official . reaction of the nations to the proposal of the United State3, through Bernard Baruch at the atomic energy control conference in New Pork yesterday, to destroy all her own atomic bombs and share atomic secrets under control of an Internationa com'-mlsslon. The British Foreign Office, in a statement, however, described the American proposal as "ad-mlable." . In QirvRt-: Hop,; 9r Howe, Canadian minister of reconstruction, sa.ld that' no one In Canada knew how to make atomic bombs, nor had Canada asked United States for the ITALY CRISIS IS NOW OVER All Seems to Be Quiet on Political Front Following Humbert's Flight ROME m Italy's political crisis had, apparently, blown oyer today with no new instances of disorder reported and the flight of King Humbert Into exile had ceased even to be a cubject of debate in the streets. There were no celeibtations of the king's departure or of the de facto advent of the- republic. Even the tone of the press'was more moderate. THE WEATHER Synopsis Cool and cloudy weather was general over British Columbia yesterday except over the coast. Rain and scattered thunderstorms were reported In the Interior and continuous rain over southern Vancouver Island and the lower mainland brought the June rainfall well above average. Abbotsford with 1.77, Vancouver with 1.30, and Patricia Bay with 1.05, 'to 4:30 this morning were the wettest spots lh the province although the coastal regions of Washington recorded over two Inches. A north westerly flow of cool and drjer air is expected to bring better instance, a m? forcibly entered I conditions to the coasta.l regions our refinery property at Mont real East and took the crew of chartered tanker Maplfe Branch ashore, another mob threatened to Ijoard our tanker Ottawallte while It aws bunkering an ocean-going ship In Montreal harbor and, In order to avert bodily harm and damage to property, the captain had to send his crew ashore. In Sarnla a mob broke Into our refinery property, Injured an unarmed watchman and stoned and dam aged our tanker Slmcollte. "All these acts of violence oc curred despite the1" ract there Is no dispute whatever between I Tmnprlnl OH nnH 1fo teaman ,Vis I of the province this, afternoon and evening. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen Charlottes and North Coast Overcast, becoming cloudy this afternoon. Widely scattered rain showers, cloudy on Sunday. Little change In temperature. Minimum tonight at Port Hardy 48, Massett 46, " Prince Rupert 48 Maximum on, Sunday, Port Hardy 60, Massett 60, Prince Rupert 63. Hons and have ho grievance. We have Indicated our readiness that our seamen determine , by free vote their choice of a bar- have Indicated they are perfect- gaining agency and we win deal the Privy Council in London, jly satisfied with working condl-!wlth any agenc, so. chosen.