ROHTHERN AND CENTRAL ARniSH COLUMBIAN KKWBPAPER ( I.IDBHUIUKO. f DRUGS Prompt Service 0 I - ' At AllHouri ,,. Drliren- J HONE 81 ! 8t Canada'8 lo'fvv VUL' Most Strategic Pacific Port-Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest." STAR CABS XXXVII, No 1 ai PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS m PRICES K I N. H CE1LMG i ! 51 i Government Moves to Control Cost of Staff of Life to Canadians Boost In Rates On r.r. AiiMfif ,Pglilir led .It was still the n-hctht-r Co-nporaliV' RIOTING IN BERLIN BERLIN An anjrry German crowd, just inside the Russian sector of Berlin, tonieht stormr! tu OTTAWA (CP) The Prices Board announced today that price ceiling control is being reimposed on all flour made wholly or partly from Western THE WEATHER Synopsis Fresh Pacific air covered ttie k w'", carloads of Soviet sector police who had been pur-a,,S! suinpr black marketeers almost into the British and Canada wheat and all bread made wholly or partly entire province this morning fol MRS. KQSENKINA FEELING BETTTER Russian School Teacher Had Been Reported "Sinking" Earlier In Day NEW YORK Kf; Mrs'. Otoana Stepanovna Kosenkina, refuuec provincial from such Hour. The prices at which bread and flour are frozen today at all trade levels are those which uinu-u niairs i cfciuw. in .serious noting; which ensued four Russians were reported killed. Freights Raided On Competitive Lines B.C. Hard Hit Again MONTREAL ) Railway sources yesterday confirmed that a 15 percent Increase in freight rates on all competitive lines in Canada will go Into effect September 15. In Ottawa a spokesman for the Board of Transport Commissioners said that a new freight rates boost had been announced and that special tariff supplements had been lowing the disturbance which moved inland during the night. Although there will be some clearing this afternoon, cloudi were in effect July 31, the date has 'n "I,-v FRASER SALMON Ubprals. two ness Is expected to be fairly general in most areas with tem on which Minister of Trade C. D. Howe had announced a 45c increase in the domestic wheat price, saying that a sub- yen elcrten RUN IS LOWER VANCOUVER t"-The Fraser Russian school teacher, who leaped from a third floor win River salmon . pack this yenr sidy would be paid to keep dow of the Soviet consulate here last week, was reported to b' sinking early today but later re down the prices of flour and bread. The Board said that, in re-imposing the celling, it was acting tn government peratures below the late August normal. Another disturbance now moving into the Gulf cf Alaska should bring rain to the northern areas of the provincs this afternoon and additional cloudiness to the southern coastal regions tomorrow. Forecast Queen Charlottes and North will not meet earlier expectations, fishermen predicted lo-day. A spokesman said he had anticipated one million salmon but the number would not exceed 6.00,000 to 700,000. " ports from the hospital here said Issued by the Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Pacific Railways. It will be in addition to the general that "Mrs. Kosenkina' condi C.C.F. IN SESSION WINNIPEG A broad national socialization program was due for public hearing today as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's biennial conference opened with delegates from all province.-, attending. A ten-point national program, considered apart from 150 other resolutions on the agenda, was drafted by the party's national executive council at a pre-convention caucus. It calls for socializing of banks and railways and a wide range of primary industry including several touching on tion shows an improvement.' ill in dnub' nr. where a icadiiiR. antl rr an Inrtr-rfdiicr was , the count-, ssibie sever,! .. Opposition I rr indicated j 'ills in nine d:np tour in envfrnn'ent twenty-one percent increase She had be;n placed In an oxy which was authorized last April gen tent and given a bluad ALASKA CANNERY transfusion late yesterday. Coast Cloudy with showers, be coming overcast with intermit MANAGER DIES The United States Depart tent rain this afternoon. Rain PLANE MISSING OVER MALAYA ment of State rulrd formally KETCHIKAN Charles Hind by the Board of Transport Commissioners. The Transport Board spokesman emphasized that this should not be confused with the application of the railroads last month to the Board for an interim fifteen percent general increase on rates and a perman r. Indicated today that Mrs. Kosenkina kg beyond the control of the Soviet government ";:o long as she remains in this country." i annimne-1 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya B The Royal Air Force said to tonight. Cloudy, with widely scattered showers Friday. Winds northwest .15 m.p.h.) in exposed areas, light elsewhere. Little change in temperature. Lows tonight and highs Friday At Port Hardy 50 and 60, Massett 53, manager of the Annette Island Packing Co. at New Met-lakatla, died Tuesday at his home at New Metlakatla a short time after he suffered a heart attack while at work. He had been manager of the cannery, owned by the natives of New after fxj. j night that one of its Dakota planes was ten hours overdue Top United States government officials today put into final form a note rejecting Soviet ent increase of twenty percent. ; 1 PALESTINE CRISIS SUCCESS After Count Folke Berna- The proposed increase in com u:rs of Ui ' on a reconnolssance flight over suspended Insurgent positions In 53 and 62, Prince Rupert 50 and 64.s accusations and demands in the i petitive rates is entirely a mat trifft irmf- Metlakatla, for the last case of the school teacher. The ts hid ben! dottfj Ufiited Nations mediator, had warned the 15 j north Kedah and Kelantan. The plane carried a "normal crew." years. ter for the railways in- areas where they meet competition from trucks and ships. Coastal .f cum tu, Security Council of the United Nations today that document will be delievered to the Soviet embassy by nightfall. MUST RAISE EXPORTS I the situation in Jerusalem was gradually getting steamship rates have already LONDON O) Exports must be 122.000 1 POUNDS OF TUNA IS LAUDED raised to twice the 1938 volume before Britain can pay its wayl abreact, r Har6ki ' Wilon , preu - uui in iiaiiu, a.shinr ior prompt action to nan renewed Arab-Jewish strife, the Security Council de-i(k'd today to mft io urgent session this afternoon on the Palestine question. J 1 AT SKIDEGATE AS BOOM CONTINUES scats in th" f had two. 'DM i -.-. i"N h-avv, !r. m but i) Ttw rrend in cm and been advanced and truckers are expected to up their rates by fifteen, .percent. 1 , In Vancouver business men said that British Columbia will feel the effect of the increase more than any other section of Canada. "The increase will be dent of the Board of Trade, told a meeting of the British Export The Queen Charlotte Islands tuna fish boom paid Trade Research organization re-joff with ladings of 22,000 pounds of fish at Skide- cently. gate on Tuesday and at least two dozen other boats are on the west coast grounds filling their holds in another blow to basic and sec WORLD FLIGHT - -IS ABANDONED MARSEILLES. France 0 Mrs Richard Morrow-Tait of Cambridge, England, 24 - year - old flying mother, today abandoned her round-the-world flight attempt after the first hop. She left Cambridge yesterday in a light Proctor aircraft but the plane was damaged wh.?n it landed in a ditch here last ni(iht. She may return to England to try again. an area extending from three to eight miles off ondary industries and will mean a rise in the cost of practically LEGION WINS OVER SCHOOL Moresby Island. everything we eat," an Industry spokesman said. And all this is Veterans Defeated High 4 to 2 In Football In Thursday evening's Mobley EMPLOYMENT LEVEL HIGH OTTAWA Employment in Canada is being maintained at a high level, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported today. Survey for the week ended June 5 showed almost five million (4,948,000) Canadians had jobs of a total working force of f,0.'W,(XH). The working force total is the second highest on record. The record was August 1947. BABE RUTH IS AT REST in addition to the dlscrimina-ry mountain differential. -i tha the j 1 prnvincuil '"r lndu;'ryj C SIKh col, - ! 'I first Inrli-j t some liiti . I i and 1K),-1 Cup football game Canadian Legion defeated High School 4 to 2. It was a splendidly fought game. NEW ALASKAN lg Mountaineer Killed at Ocean Fall PACKER STARTS SERVICE HERE . . Two boats, whose names are not available here, landed 11,000 pounds each at the Canadian Fishing Co. camp at Skldegate and the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative expects three or four boats to make landing? here today or tomorrow. According to reports from the Islands, at least 25 boats ari making rich catches off Tassoo Harbor and Big Bay on the west coast of Moresby Island. Catches yesterday ranged up to 115 fiih weighing from 10 to 30 pound? each. Within the last few days, some boats have caught as many iu-230 fish a day. Current market price for tuna is $650 a ton. The two vessels which landed tuna at Skidegate on Tnesday reported that they had caught them off Big Bay, only 10 minutes run from anchorage. Boato already there are being jolnec An ex-GI, Jack Tyson bf Ketchikan, wiio sailed into Prince Rupert during the war NEW YORK Thirty miles away from the scenes of his glory which made him one of the greatest idols of the world of athletics and good sportsmanship, they laid George Herman (Babel Ruth away this afternoon at Gate of Heaven Cemetery on the quiet banks of the Hudson River. Burial followed a high requiem mass for repose of the soul conducted by Francis Cardinal Spellman in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Six thousand mourners crowded into the Cathedral and among them were Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Mayor James O'Dwyer of New York and Mayor James Curley of Boston. Seventy-five thousand persons jammed the area Plunged Down Cliff to Death Near Paper Town TOD ATS STOCKS :: Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. John Alexander Gouldie, twentv-five year old amateur mountain climber from Newdale, Mam- This Pacini as master of an army "Iron shoe" an "F" (freight) " type vessel returned to the city yesterday as first mate on his own vessel, . a 105-foot, twin screw power barge, the Great 3itkan. The Great Sltkan brought three carloads of canned salmon from the Independent Salmon Packing Company at Ketchikan for transshiment to the Eastern U. S. ( First Mate Tyson skippered various types of army craft. Conwest 120 Donalda 60 Eldona 120 Giant Yellowknife 4.35 God's Lake 56 Hardrock 22 Harricana Ofi iUc 1in-fnnt hnn rter- t, ,,. " . iim, juuiicu wwmty uumi r-- ,.l ...1 .1 1 I i i 1kft.wn nnQI' Of'fi.'Ul "r''iu; mam !'h Aus- Mutuieu suie oi iviount v-aiui iuoi"n mm -w.... Falls yesterday to his death. With two e'ompaions Gloudie was climbing on a precarious waterfall course, a - " 4000 peak directly behind the j 1 I 1 f 1 lUf III of the towering cathedral and thousands more lined the street.1 as the cortage passed. Yesterday and before the fun by other vessels from the west coast of Vancouver Island and Prince Rupert. ' The Canadian Fishing Co. office at Prinre Rupert said yes Pacific .Mills company town, 2(MI,HLWJIM S llkft. ranging from freighters to power barges, along the coast eral service today it wac esti miles south of Prince Rupert. from San Francisco to the Aleu Vancouver Bralorne 7 B R. Con 02 ' B.R.X. : -09V2 Cariboo Quartz 100 Dentonia 01V2 Grull Wihksne .02 Hedley Mascot 36 Minto 01 Fend Oreille 3.95 Pioneer 2 40 Premier Border 02 Privateer 1" Reeves McDonald 1-55 Reno -- 0812 Salmon Gold 12 Sheep Creek M5 Taylor Bridge 3l1.- Taku River 32 Vananda -30 Congress 03 Pacific Eastern 05 Hedley Amalgamated .. .05 Central Zeballos 01 Kilhak Premier -27 PLANS DELAYED Australian ra"Kl is re-h had been ar'.v in the s Australian !!c is ni.w ' 20,nn0-ton 1(1 bring the ir strength. st early in tian Islands during the first four years of the war. The last KETCHIKAN Construction year was spent as a doughbey He stumbled on a lede;e and plunged down the near perpendicular water course. The two companions were unable to save him. terday that they plan to send Iheir packer Cape Perry to Skidegate to bring the tuna to Prince Rupert for freezing. Meanwhile, several Prince Rupert boats are rigging out to cet in on the tuna harvest. At least two boats planned to leave to mated that more than 150,000 persons had passed before the mahogany casket as the body lay in state at Yankee Stadium, a couple of hundred feet away from the diamond where he had won lasting glory. Commissioner A. B. Chandler was among these. As the thousands visited "The fighting in the South Pacific from the beaches at Okinawa to Tokyo. Heva iu'2 Hosco 36 'k Jacknife 04 Jollet Quebec 45 Lake Rowan 07 Lapaska 04 Little Long Lac "0 Lynx 6OV2 Madsen Red Lake 2.2b McKenzie Red Lake 3534 McLeod Cockshutt 85 Moneta - 35 Negus 2.07 Noranda 48.50 Louvicourt 58 Pickle Crow 1 86 Regcourt 04 Vz San Antonio 3 15 Senator Rouyn 43 Sherrit Gordon- 2.3Q Steep Rock 1.92 Sturgeon River 16 Silver Miller 37 Tyson and his c-opartner Don plans for a proposed $20,000,000; pulp mill at Ward's Cove, nine miles from Ketchikan have ; been held up temporarily be-j cause of an anticipated water shortage caused by a change lnj ' production plans. The mill, being developed by i the Ketchikan Pulp and Tim- j of thei her Co.. a subsidiary j Provincial police brought the ony Anierl-1 body to Ocean Falls today. An Peterson, another Ketchikan boy, brought the Great Sitkan day, and others are expected to follow. The Pride, Capt. Frank ! Passengers ! inquest will be held. Amstutz and the Allons, Capt a"a. dlsuon- Axel Johansen expected to leave House That Ruth Built" to pay final tribute to baseball's idol, the setting was reminiscent of March 1937 when Howie Mor- today for the Islands. Puget Sound Pulp and PaPer! ois designed to: Co., was originally Con HVi S HAVING TROCBLE HARVESTING HAY Fl'NERAL NOTICE HOPKINS Died in Prince Rupert General Hospital, August 18, 3ames Hopkins, in his aia"y BURNS LAKE Farmers are getting rather worried about from War Assets Administration just a year ago. They outfitted it during the winter, using It as a packer between Ketchikan and west coast points of Prince of Wales Island, during the spring and summer. Tyson came to Alaska in 1940 to "see what it looked like" and stayed. He married a Ketchikan girl and is now the father of a three-year-old boy. Captain of the Great Sltkan is Alex Barov, who once, skippered Phil Brlggs' Southeastern. However, Tyson hopes to captain the Great Sitkan next "i the ri,.i. their hay crops which are difficult to stack after heavy rains errn; an nro- enz, one of Canada's greats, iay in state in the Forum at Montreal, scene of many game triumphs. ! As the 6,000 persons knelt with bowed heads in the Cathedral in their final tribute to the King of Baseball, Spellman prayed that divine spirit "that inspired Babe Ruth to overcome hardships and win" the crucial game of life might, anaimate many generations of American youth to follow. forty-seventh year. Survived by his wife, Margaret. Funeral service, GrenvUle Court Chapel, Friday, August 20, 2:30 p.m., Rev. Fred Antrobus, of Between the rain it is warm and pleasant but no sooner Is It Ml.ooo ln-it has dl "Utnilt. nf Calmont ft C. & E 5.70 Foothills 2.75 Home 8 00 Toronto Athona ' 06 Aumaque -16 Beattie 61 Bevcourt -3s Bobjo Buffalo Canadian -0" Consol. Smelters 11300 produce sulphite puip, d"" switch to cellulose pulp has changed requirements so that it is doubtful if enough water can be supplied. A special engineering party is due here this week to study available water, supplies in the light of cellulose pulp production- , , is to be The cellulose pulp produced for conversion into textiles for the American Vls-eore Co. ready to handle than another v tw fac.tor- LOCAL TIDES (Standard Time) Friday, August 20, 1948 High 1:34" 20.0 feet 14:18 19.2 feet Low ., 7:59 2.9 feet liie war ficiating. Interment in Forest rain comes. MASQUERADER ECIES Lawn Cemetery, Vancouver. Vancouver and Pentlcton papers please copy. . 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