NORTHERN
AND
CENTBMrlJKIllMI
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Weather
Forecast
-.
i
prince
Rupert
Overcast
and
c0oi
with
light
to
moderate
am
Wednesday,
November
21,
1945
rain,
moderate
to
fresh
westerly
High
2:22
21.2
feet
winds
Wednesday
with
rain
or
14:10
23.7
feotv
snow
flurries.
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
Low
.
8:14
6.0
feet
20:56
0.3
feet
VOL.
XXXIV,
No.
268.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
D.C.,
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
20,
1945
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
azi
JIY
ENGINEER
PROPOSES
IN
RESIDENTIAL
ZONING
BY-LA
w"
Revision
of
tlie
citv's
he
uolicy
of
selling
city
lots
ential
areas
of
the
city
acceptable
to
the
National
lousing
Authority
for
the
construction
of
in.Huv.
Unsored
homes
was"
recommended
to
city
counril
K-
City
Engineer
A.
E.
Phillips
in
a
report
last
night.
Flight
Record
ashington
rom
vjuam
E!9
Traverses
8,000
Miles
Without
Stopping
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Nov.
20
-A
new
world's
non-stop
Ions
ance
flight
record
was
Claimed
by
the
United
Slates
irmy
Air
Force
at
8:25
this
kinming
(ramie
standard
rime)
when
a
B29
Stiperfort-
Irss
hit
the
runway
here
after
In
t.OOO-milc
continuous
flight
rom
Guam
in
about
33
hours.
The
recognized
record
was
let
br
the
British
with
a
I13Ml-mile
flight
from
Egypt
llo
Australia
in
1938.
The
Am-
irican
pfane
beat
this
mark
it
passed
over
Wisconsin
fork
this
moining.
ould
Increase
fower
of
CFPR
I
TERRACE,
Nov.
20
The
Ter-
Icc
and
District
Board
of
Trade
supporting
the
Junior
Cham-
ir
of
Commerce
of
Prince
Ru-
frt
in
Its
request
for
Increasing
e
pocr
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Idio
station
rom'
the
present
iiXo.
iiwou.watL,,.
....
...
OUTH
IS
GIVEN
ADDLE
STROKES
iJKhtttii-Ycar
Old
Involved
In
Morals
Charge
to
be
Whipped
VANCOUVER,
Nov.
20
P
I
maid
A.
Wilson,
aged
18,'
was
f
terday
sentenced,
to
10
strokes
the
paddle
and
nine
month
prisonment
with
hard
labor
Iter
pleading
guilty
to
a
morals
lgc
involving
a
15-year
old
p
The
strokes
of
the
paddle
be
administered
five
at
a
ne
ML
L,P.
P.
OMMUNIST
AeciiNation
Against
"wnational
Woodworkers
of
Political
Asticity
In
B.
C.
To
"
Investigated
I
EUGENE,
Ore.,
Nov.
20
iQ
relations
that
the
British
Col-
a
district
of
the
Intcrna-"al
Woodworkers
of
America
supporting
the
Communist
R
will
be
Investigated,
the
r.lon
decided
at
t.hp
nnniml
iron-
convention
here.
I
e
Inquiry
was
approved
af-
"eorge
Brown,
C.I.O.
dlr-f
I;
of
organization,
charged
w.a.s
Canadian
officials
in
campaigning
for
Canada's
""-Progressive
Party
which
n
callcd
"admittedly
Com-Jnistlc."
Brown
that
""'fibers
are
leaving
t.hP
i.w.A.
use
they
are
disgusted
with
Ft
BrllcU
n-,..
.
.
........
...
-oil
voiumoia
.districts
t
an
Politics
by
campalgn-
nrty'ur
me
Labor-Progressive
Canadian
ronbysayin.3theyhad
great-crshi
"!ded
thc
Unlon's
mem-
wmsn
Columbia.
ElIZAnUTH
LANDS
"ALlpAv
...
('nj
ii
"'even
tnousanii
,ve,erans
arrived
nh
.i
c
,,ner
iuecn
E,za-
M
Aboara
the
ship
as
she
,
vu,,,,MC,c
ariny
uniis,
js
Air
ForcC(
Navy
and
Xhe
.
,rvlce
personnel.
',va'
'
the
queen
l(r
fnnipletes
the
re-cnad
Ue
Scconl
IHvision
to
XM
c
-
&
zoninq
-
hv-laws
to
r-hiinnp
iri
order
to
make
vpsi.
an.
riiiuips
torn
council
tnat
the
proposed
revision
had
been
Inspired
by
the
Prince
Rupert
Housing
Association
which
has
been
Investigating
ways
of
mak-in.3
thc
N.II.A.
applicable
here,
j
His
report
suggested
that,
since
thc
25-foot
lots
in
residen-
i
tial
areas
are
too
narrow
for
N,
i
H.A.
regulations,
three
lots
of
25-foot
frontage
be
divided
and
sold
as
two
lots
of
37lj!-fool
1
frontage.
He
said
that
37V2-foot
i
frontage
was
the
minimum
width
on
which
the
government
would
allow
loans
for
home
building.
'
Hp
a'd
that
the
revision
should
apply
only
to
class
"A"
,
residential
areas.'
His
report
also
urzed
that
the
.
minimum
cost
of
houses
built
!
In
class
"A"
residential
areas
be
!
lilted
from
Its'
present
restriction
of
$2,700
to
$4,500.
"It
Is
for
the
protection
of
those
who
build
good
homes
in
class
"A"
districts,"
he
said.
"You
cannot
build
much,
more
than
a
shack
for
$2,703
at
present.
I
think
the
minimum
should
be
$4,500."
Regarding
Increase
in
the
lot-frontages,
Mr.
Phillips
said
that
25-loot
lots
do
not
allow
the
amount
of
space
betwee-n
house
that
Is
required
by
the
National
Housing
regulations.
He
admitted
that
if
the
revision
were
effected,
some
vacant
lot3
between
existing
hemes
would
havp
-to-be-
'-'glyencaw.ay.'Mo,
the
owners
of
the
adjoining
dwellings.
The
revision
would
not
otherwise
aHect
existing
houses
built
on
25-foot
lots.
Council
cmDowercd
Mr.
Phillips
and
City
Clerk
Thaln
to
draw
uo
a
proposed
revision
of
the
zoning
bylaw.
ALLEGED
CHILD
KILLER
INSANE
NEW
WE5Tw.iN.:i'R,
Nov.
20
O:
Nobel
Monahan,
53-year
old
farmer
at
Murrayvlllc,
was
found
Insane
by
the
British
Columbia
Supreme
Court
jury
here
yesterday
and
deemed
unfit
to
stand
trial
on
a
charge
of
murdering
10-year
old
Dorreen
Rose
Ryan
last
September
26.
BRITISH
PART
IN
FAR
EAST
OTTAWA,
Nov.
ZU
W
Prime
Minister
Clement
R.
Attlce
of
Great
Britain,
at
a
press
conference
hero
yesterday,
said
the
assignment
Britain
had
taken
fro
mthe
Allied
War
Council
was
to
clear
out
thc
Japanese
from
Indonesia,
release
Internees
and
restore
order.
ATTLEE
ON
WAY
HOME
ARRIVES
HOME
TODAY
LONDON
Prime
Minister
Attlce
landed
In
England
today
after
flying
from
Canada.
OTTAWA,
Nov.
20
Prime
Minister
Clement
Attlce
Is
on
his
way
back
to
Britain.
Soon
after
his
address
to
a
joint
session
of
Parliament
yesterday,
he
left
Rockcliffe
airport
by
plane
on
his
return
home
across
the
At-lantlc'occan.
WINDSOR
JAIL
BREAK
WINDSOR,
Ont.
Six
men,
all
with
long
police
records,
escaped
from
Essex
County
jail
today
after
overpowering
the
turnkey
and
night
watchman
on
their
way
out
of
thc
tells,
bais
of
which
they
had
sawed.
They
are
believed
to
have
fled
in
a
stolen
I
p
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-
1
'
,
-
'
-
f
,
Designed
by
engineers
of
the
National
Research
Council,
this
.-upersecret
pilot
plant
near
Chalk
River,
Ont.,
will
be
used
In
peacetime
develop
ment
of
atomic
power.
Criminal
Suicides
Jap
Genera
I
Kills
Self
Baron
llungo,
Ringleader
of
Manchuria,
Commits
llari
Kari
After
Arrest
TOKYO,
Nov.
20
One
of
the
top
Japanese
war
criminals
Baron
General
Shigeru
Hongo,
has
killed
himself.
Kongo,
who
was
reputedly
the
ringleader
of
the
conquest
of
Manchuria,
committed
hari-kari
today,
less
than
24
hours
after
he
was
ordered
arrested.
The
baron
was
lying
on
his
right
side
In
a
pool
of
blood
In
his
office
at
the
former
Japanese
war
college
when
Allied
reporters
and
photographers
arrived.
Kongo
was
67
years
of
ae
and
had
commanded
the
Kwaritung
army
frcm
1931
to
1935.
He
often
had
been
referred
to
as
the
"ringleader
of
Japanese
warlords."
Five
Feet
of
Snow
Falls
At
Klemtu
There
is
no
less
than
five
feet
cf
snow
at
Klemtu,
native
village
and
cannery
point
90
miles
down
the
coast
from
Prince
Rupert,
according
to
a
fisheries
patrol
boat
which
arrived
from
there
at
the
first
of
the
week.
MANY
AFRICA!')
TONGUES
Some
700
different
languages
are
spoken
by
the
tribes
of
bbhh
Iri
rials
Sultethu
PEARL
HARBOR
PROBE
WASHINGTON
Admiral
Richardson
told
I'carl
Haibor
inquiry
today
that
j.c
and
Admiral
Stark
had
agreed
against
basing
the
fleet
at
Peail
Harbor
bill
had
been
overruled
by
President
Roosevelt.
STRIKE
SETTLEMENT
SEEN
WINDSOR,
Ont.
Hope
for
an
early
settlement
of
the
union
security
strike
at
the
Ford
Motor
Co.
plant
seemed
brighter
today.
It
was
pinned
on
the
resumption
of
discussions
between
company
and
union
representatives
which
will
be
continued
tomoirow.
FRENCH
POLITICS
PARIS
General
Charles
DcGallc,
today
conferred
with
leaders
of
thc
three
main
parties
in
thc
French
constituent
assembly
in
new
efforts
to
form
a
coalition
government.
No
declaration
was
immediately
foithcoming
as
to
whether
progress
had
been
made.
FULL
SCALE
JAVA
WAR
BATAVIA
A
full-scale
war
appears
imminent
lit
Java
today.
While
fig'vtlng
continues
between
Britlih
troops
and
Indonesian
Nationalists
In
thc
Javanese
port
of
Soerabaja,
thousands
of
armed
Indonesians
are
reported
massing
In
the
centre
of
the
bland,
spurred
on
by
the
extremist
radios
urging
war
on
the
British.
vjpen
GEN.
CRERAR
COMING
VANCOUVER
Gen.
Crerar,
recently
returned
from
overseas
where
he
was
commander-in-chief
of
the
Canadian
Army,
will
be
heie
to
address
the
Vancouver
Board
of
Trade
January
29.
COLD
iN
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
Thc
temperature
hit
a
new
low
mark
for
the
winter
of
1G
below
here.
At
Fort
Vet
million
it
is
40
below,
.CP.lt.
HELD
UP
VANCOUVER
CP.It.
trains
into
Vancouver
are
delayed
by
big
rockslidcs
CO
to
80
fect
long
on
thc
main
line
in
the
Rockies.
MARITIME
COMMISSION
OTTAWA
Munitions
Minis-ter
Howe
has
told
Commons
that
thc
government
is
seriously
considering
the
establishment
of
a
maiitimc
commission
to
handle
matters
relating
to
thc
merchant
marine.
He
said
the
question
is
being
studied
by
an
inler-dc-partmental
committee
of
high-ranking
officials.
DE
GAULLE
RECEIVES
VANIEIi
LONDON
General
DcGautlc
received
the
Canadian
ambassador
to
France
last
night.
Canada's
representative
In
the
French
capital
Is
Major-Gen-cral
Georges
Vanier.
In
Owned
by
the
Dominion,
Eldorado
mine
at
Port
Radium
on
Great
Bear
lake
near
the
Arctic
Circle
puts
Canada
In
strategic
position
as
source
of
uranium
for
atomic
power.
Civic
Election
NEW
SYSTEM
OF
VOTING
TO
BE
USED
i
Process
of
Casting
Ballots
1
rtrinF
Slmnliflr-il
!
Prince
Rupert
clyic
Voters
w'ill
i
use
a
new
balloting
system,
when
i
they
go
to
the
polls
on
Decern-i
ber
13.
The
new
system
will
simplify
the
casting
and
counting
of
ballots
In
an
election
In
which
some
voters
may
cast
six
ballots,
and
some
four.
It
was
approved
by
bylaw
at
last
night's
council
meeting.
Instead
of
being
issued
six
detached
ballots
which
must
be
placed
in
six
separate
boxes
af
ter
they
have
been
marked,
(Continued
on
Page
2)
DRIFTS
11
HOURS
IN
CHOPPY
SEA
Another
Narrow
Escape
for
Digby
Island
Mail
Carrier
Waltcl
Davis,
fisherman
and
(
mailman
for
the
Porcher
Island
village
of
Oona
River,
narrowly
escaped
destruction
of
his
boat
and
possible
loss
of
his
life
at
the
week-end
when
the
engine
of
his
craft
failed
five
miles
outside
of
Prince
Ruper
harbor.
leaving
him
drifting
helplessly
for
eleven
hours
while
his
helper
rowed
to
Digby
Island
for
assistance.
Coming
to
Prince
Rupert
for
his
bi-weekly
delivery
of
mall
to
the
Isolated
village,
Davis's
boat
engine
stepped
as
the
vessel
was
plodding
through
choppy
seas
five
miles
outside
the
harbor
entrance.
Eleven
hours
later,
at
2
ajn.,
he
was
taken
in
tow
by
Albert
Larson
of
Digby
Island,
who
made'
the
rescue
at
the
request
of
Davis's
partner,
Ludwig
Llndcr,
who
had
rowed
five
miles
In
a
skiff
through
rough
seas
to
seek
aid.
Davis,
who
regularly
make
the
trip
of
30-odd
miles
to
deliver
the
mall
to
Oona
River,
admits
that
he
has
hacf
many
narrow
escapes
while
travelling
the
route,
particularly
on
the
"Labrador
Coast."
the
fishermen's
designation
of
the
north
coast
of
Porcher
Island
which
Is
made
dangerous
by
heavy
winds
and
treacherous
tidal
currents.
"It
was
uncomfortable
being
tossed
around
without
power,
but
I
didn't
have
any
doubt
that
I
would
be
rescued
In
time,"
Davis
said
of
his
week-end
adventure.
Birds
take
at
least
25
genera-
i
tlons
to
adapt
themselves
to
new
situations.
N
uernoerQ
PUBLIC
USE
OF
ROAD'OFFrcrAl:
BY
NEXT
SPRING
Official
permission
for
unlimited
public
use
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Highway,
ownership
of
which
is
shared
In
various
stretches
by
the
federal
Department
of
Mines
and
Resources
and
the
provincial
government,
may
be
granted
by
next
spring,
city
council
was
advised
in
a
letter
from
J.
M.
Wardale,
chief
engineer
for
the
Resources
Department.
Negotiations
for
transfer
of
federal
government
-
owned
sections
of
the
road
to
the
province
are
now
under
way,
the
letter
said.
It
was
in
reply
to
questions
on
trie
status
of
the
road
put
to
the
Resources
Department
by
city
council.
AMERICANS
WITHDRAWAL
Communist
Newspaper
In
Chungking
Renews
its
Demand
CHUNGKING,
Nov.
20
X
A
Chinese
Communist
newspaper
In
Chungking,
the
New
China
Dally
News,
has
renewed
Its
demands
that
American
troops
be
withdrawn
from
China.
The
paper
charges
that
the
United
States
Is
converting
China
Into
a
so-called
American
colony.
Meantime,
the
urive
of
Nationalist
troops
Into
Manchuria
Is
'
reported
continuing.
Already
the
Nationalist
have
claimed
control
of
the
Manchurlan
rail
Junction
town
of
Sulchung,
about
63
miles
from
chlnslen.
That
Is
where
the
Chinese
Communists
have
forecast
bl3-scale
fireworks.
For
their
part,
the
Communists
have
claimed
that
they
taken
possession
of
the
southern
Manchurlan
air
fields
formerly
held
by
the
Russians.
Late
dispatches
from
North
are
Invading
the
Manchurlan
China
say
Chinese
Communists
capital
of
Changchun
In
force
Nationalist
troops
are
reported
to
be
35
miles
inside
Manchuria
after
a
breakthrough
In
the
south.
MORE
DECEMBER
SUGAR
OTTAWA
There
will
be
four
preserve
ration'
coupons
in
December
Instead
of
one
sugar
and
two
preserve
I
Momentous
Hearing
Is
Commenced
ATTITUDES
VARY
FROM
DEFIANGE-TO
INDIFFERENCE
"...
OPENING
COMMENTS
NUERNBERG,
G
c
r
-many,
Nov.
20
(CP)
The
trials
of
twenty
leading
Nazis
accused
of
war
crimes
finally
opened
,
in
Nuernberg
today.
The
assistant
to
the,I,,chief
United
States
prosecutor.
Sidney
S,.
Alderman,
opened
the
proceedings
this
morning
by
reading
a
condensed
version
of
the
Indictment
against
the-defendants.
'
Lord
Justice
Geoffrey
Law"
lence,
the
British
judge
who
is
presiding,
told
the
defendants
the
court
had
been
entrusted
by
Britain,
the
United
States,
the
Soviet
Union
and
France'
with
the
punishment
of
war
crimin
als
He
declared
"This
trial
which
is
about
to
begin
Is
unique
In
the
history
of
Jurisprudence'
and
in
Importance
to
people
all
over
the
world."
.
...
.The
Hitler
henchmen
were
brought
into
the
small,
oak'
panelled
courtroom
about
20-minutes
before
the
opening
of
the
trial
and
faced
their
accusers
with
expressions
ranging
from
defiance
to
Indifference.
Glum
Looking
lot
Of
Defendants
Glum
and
oddly
garbed
were
the
score
of
henchmen
of
Adolf
f
Hitler
whowtnt
on
JUJal
forithelcf
lives
before
the
international
war
crimes
tribunal
and
heard
the
reading-
of
the
Indictment
against
them.
Ii
was
a
recital
of
plunder
and
horror.
The
read-
F
Ing
of
the
3500-word
document
.
took
two-and-a-half
hours
and
1
occupied
the
first
full
day
of
the
trial.
A
twenty
-first
defendant,
Mar-
j,
tin
Bormann,
Hitler's
deputy,
Is
'
being
tried
In
absentia.
The
aged
Gustav
Krupp,
pos-
.
sibly
his
son,
Alfred,
arid
other
-f
Industrialists
are
to
be
tried
sepr
arately
.
.
fc
Herman
Goerlng
was
at
first
fidgety
and
restless.
An
air
of
exasperation
eventually
changed
;
to
one
of
resignation.
'
Rudolf
Hess
kept
thumbing
a
'
book,
seemingly
oblivious,
toJJif
proceedings.
,
-vt
Wilhelm
Kltel
kept
flumMrlg
with
earphones
with
which
"each
of
the
defendants
were
supplied
to
help
them
hear
the
reading
of
the
indictment.
Julius
Strelcher
behavcd'iike
a
furtive
animal.
-
Admiral
Doenltz
appeared
to
be
the
most
composed
of
all,'
attentively
listening
to.
the
proceedings.
;
Joachim
von
Rlbbentrojjr
toiild
not
take
It.
He
collapsed
and
had
to
be
given
a
scdatlvtj
after
complaining
of
neuralgic,
p'alns.
Physicians
said
he
would-
be"
Iri
shape
again
tomorrow.
i".
ARE
STOPPED
BY
RUSSIANS
,
Iranian
Forces
Prevented
-
From
Proceeding
Northward,.,
to
rut
Down
Outbreaks
TEHERAN,
Nov.
20
0)
Iranian
troops
dispatched
to
Azarbaljan
Province
to
quell
separatist
dis
turbances
there
were
halted
at
Kazvln
today
by
Russian
authorities
and
ordered
to
return
to
Teheran,
the
Iranian
government
said.
Four
battalions
of
troops,
and
gendarmes
had
been
-moving;
slowly
northward
from
Teheran,
apparently
with
tacit
consent
of
the
Russian
Army.
The"
commander
was
to
quell
an
outbreak
In
which
seven
already
had
been
reported
killed"'
:
'
"
Meanwhile
In
Moscow
newspaper
Isvestla
vehemently
denied
"slanderous"
charges
that
Russia
had
supplied
arms
to
the'Iranlan
rebels.
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