. . 1 3 DRUGS mm c" PHONE MM STARCABS ' Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER , Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Por "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest.' PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXXVII, No. 271. PRINCE RUPERT, B C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948 led Aircraft Lands In n n Alasl aska I ency at Prince Rupert rime iuoKiinQ u lexican Plane, Piloted by Author I Craftsman William Spratling, jts Down on Seal Cove Tarmac L first time in twenty-seven years, with the Demolition Is Deferred kception of some which may have done so r . 11.. -1 a. j i jam i . i i ' f ' 9m t ' 1)9 ! c -J wartime news uiatKoui, an aircrijit landed at Prince Rupert Wednesday afternoon. nv aircoupe which William ("Silver Bill") '"''X author ana craitsman 01 l axco, Mexico. Governor Gruening Sees Important Place of This Port in Common Progress Discusses Problem of Territory Will t See President About Transportation - Use of Canadian shipping and the strategically situated port of-Prince Rupert in relieving Alaska's recurrent marine transportation dilemmas still looms large in the ideas of Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska who was in Prince Rupert this morning aboard the Princess Louise bound for the United States. Drought down in an emergency landing on the 1200-foot tarmac or seaplane apron at the Seal ivide .tine Cove seaplane base. He left at 11:30 this morning for Prince George but came back within an hour to light again at the Cove Ua YnA LI - " "au u" ks Implementation lutte Plan Israel fnkp-nff tnmnrmm I. nnm. United States Installations Here Not to be Offered Until January 15 War Assets Corporation, according to advice received at the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce office following recent representations, U. apparently, deferring any move towards permitting demolition of United States war-built waterfront installations until January 15. There will be no advertising until January 15, the Chamber is advised. Request had been made that the disposal for demolition be deferred until further efforts could be made to ascertain the possibility of retaining the in stallations for useful purposes. Governor Gruening will visit i Nege I plated. it, r- Washington D. C. In about three weeks and expects to see Presi -Great Biiuin ior-1 Spratling said, after his return the United Nations j this afternoon, that he had run dent Truman. Alaska problems . ..n tiio into r:minr Into snow and low risibility will be discussed with the chief near Terrace and this had de dotte's plan to Pal- executive and one of the prin . If British delegation cipal problems is that of ship cided him to return. On leaving again tomorrow, he will try the Port Hardy route aln. the 58-member ping which even now is in a critical phase owing to the tie-up of ft mittec a resolution ... . r I. nliM c lines ui me ciuiii regular American steamship lines due to the seventy-six day inal report. The re- fo ra conciliation IMMIGRATION IS REAL HEED For Development of Country, Declares Senator Turgeon ' VANCOUVER Addressing University of British Columbia students here, Senator Gray Turgeon put in a plea for more immigration, describing this as the only thing that will put4.he west on an equal footing with Ontario and Quebec. He deplored the millions of tons of coal lying untouched in the north and in the Peace River region simply because . the population is not large enough old West Coast longshoremen's ri a; i Spratling Is heading south after spending two months In Alaska on a special commission for the United States Department of the Interior. He had left Annette Island near Ketchikan with Port Hardy as his in- ol three countries the division of Pal-ten th Arabs and Big Victory HISTORIC MOMENT Canada's new prime minister, Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent, left, shakes hands with retiring Prime Minister Mackenzie King at Government House. Viscount Alexander, centre, accepted the resignation of Mr. King and then heard Mr. St Laurent French-speaking prime minister since Sir Wilfrid Laurier. first take a solemn oath as the strike. The territory Is suffering seriously from these recurrent tie-ups. To eliminate them, Governor Gruening suggests: Re-establishment of government subsidies. Is Claimed at Tel Aviv Prime, tended destination for the day. fcvid Ben Gurion of i the state council Twenty miles past Bonilla Island In Hecate Straits he saw bad THE WEATHER AMERICAN TUG IS More Ships Chinese Government Suggests Crisis at Sucbow May be Over J troops will not weather ahead and diverted Synopsis The southern British Colum new lines in the course to Sandsplt on the Queen THOUGHT RESCUED Application of restrictions ensuring reasonable rates. Permitting of Canadian com NANKING B The national n of southern Pal-. charlottes. He found Sandsplt Needed to warrant the development of a railway. ist government claimed complete i will continue to obscured and, the weather still Ncgt'V and Jerusa-, being blustery, decided to make petition. victory in the Suchow battle to f An American lug, the Monarch, which radioed yesterday Government operation of shlp3 bia coast Is t-iicountering another day of southeast gale winds and rain. Stations at exposed positions are reporting winds of 40 ta 50 miles per hour. These winds are expected "ImmigratlonV he declared, would give us a domestic market now lacking." for Prince Rupert where he Tiad that she had lost her rudder off to supply the territory. Canadian Naval Officer Speaks of Situation in Light of International Affairs chanced to hear an emergency day. General Chang Lia-Shili said the "battle for Suchow can be considered completed. What the communists do now is sub Holliday Island at the north landing might be attempted. western tip of the Dundas group, Commenting on press reports that he had been taken to- task i army said today number of Arab Ncgev Desert had their pujple come authority and pro- 6pratling reached Prince Ru ject to conjecture." , BOSTON 0 The Roys.l .Can- to shift to westerly and decrease .apparently, was rescued by the oriiun Naw will be cxoand( d this evening. This storm will -KetcWkan Coastguard cutter at the recent Pacific - Northwes. pert shortly after 1 o'clock and ... .... .i i i. 1- jt.A. iA-iuln; T f.vhite Holly: - The tug had two decided to take the chance? Al PACIFIC COAST SALMON J ACK- ' British Columbia coast salmon pack for the season to November 6 totalled 1,302,710 cases, ' th lowest since the 1944 season for A. rejuvenation of - .nationalist air activity was claimed to have turned the tide. Heavy losses racll. ter three tires In "tough air and Trade-Association conference -in Portland for advocating competitive steamship lines in Alaska service, Governor Gruening suggested that F. A Zeusler, Alaska t a bad downdraft," he finally WJOO "SOOlKKKiOCHj had been Inflicted on communist forces carelessly left' uncovered made it. It was a tricky job, he later admitted, conceding that Y"S STOCKS I 0. Jdlmston Co. Ltd.) In the open. was, a corresponding period, accord- Steamship Co. executive, situation," Rear Admiral E. R. Mainguy, flag officer of ; the Canadian Atlantic fleet, said here. Mainguy said: "As far as I know the shipbuilding program In Canada hasn't begun as yet but a program of expansion will manoeuvring with the hand night causing considerable snow. Cloudy conditions will be general over the province tomorrow In the wake of the storm. Forecast Queen Charlottes and North Coast, Northern Section Inter-' mittent rain today. Cloudy with showers tonight and Friday. "cribs" 'in tow. The Monarch radioed that she intended to put Into Prince Rupert, but no word of her arrival has been received here. The Monarch was believed to have been towing two sections of army drydock froia Alaska to Seattle when she lost her rudder in a blow. as a com-1 lng to the weekly bulletin issued no doubt, speaking Another report said the great brake had been largely instru too uocnj oao ooooafl" pany employee and solely in the I by the Chief Supervisor of Fish- eries, Vancouver. ic i Suchow battle between the government and Red troops was headed" for a second phase to mental in making the landing possible. He came to a stop about 125 feet from the point Vancouver I 6.75 Pack last year was ,1,484,318 go into effect." day. The Reds were reported cases while In 1946 it was 1,331,-832 and in 1945, 1,723,815 cases. where the tiny wheels first hit a 03 08 Winds southerly (25 mph). Little change in temperature. Lows ! d..iii.:m By varieties, the pack so far this year has been as follows: the concrete. Spratling has been flying for only six months but seems to have acquired considerable skill. tonight and highs Friday At Massett and Prince Rupert, 35 Quartz 1.10 lliksne .04 foscot .31 tiillc 5.90 sockeye, 260.007; pinks, 321,327; regrouping northwest of tLc battlefields as General Chiang Kai-Shek threw reinforcements into the fight. Meanwhile 1200 United States Marines at Guam prepared to rush to Tslngtao, United States HOCKEY SCORES National New York 4, Detroit 4 Boston 2, Toronto 1 Chicago 4, Montreal 3. and 45.. Southern Section chums, 487,654; coho,.; 192,018; bluebacks, 19,886; springs, 16,146; ... 2.55 interests of the company. "The people pf Alaska have been suffering untoward effects of monopoly so long that they are thoroughly convinced of the value of competition," declared" Governor Gruening. "We also believe that we should be allowed unrestricted use of Canadian vessels." The Alaska chief executive observed that Senator Homer Cape-hart of Indiana and Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska had both introduced bills to lift restrictions with which the territory had to cope at present. , Border 02 14 naval base, 200 miles north of LOCAL TIDES Friday,' November 19, 1948 Heavy rain today, cloudy with showers tonight and Friday. Wind southeast (40 mph) today. Light tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature. Lows tonight and highs Friday At Port Hardy 38 and 45. IcDtmald 3.05 High 2:59 18.9 feet 14:31 21.6 feet If Gold frcek . $ver . . .07', .11 Vi 1.52 .30 .53 Suchow. In Washington it is said that the United States government may soon issue a proclamation designed to boost the morale of China's anti-communist forces. President Truman and the De A Canadian Pacific Airlines attendant at the base conceded that it was a "neat piece" of aircraft manoeuver-ing. The tarmac is 150 fact wide. Spratling on leaving this morning, had no difficulty in the take-off. From Port Hardy he Intends to proceed via Seattle, Portland and Hollywood to Mexico. He is Low 8:31 8.4 feet Miss Joyce Leslie, who has been in Hazelton for the past year where s served for a time as ' acting matron at the Wrinch Memorial Hospital, has returned to the city to take up the duties of senior nurse in the local branch -of the Health Departemnt. 21:20 2.8 feet nq 1 PREVENTIVE MEASURE All cloth from which British Army uniforms are cut is dipped in a solution of DDT. partment of State have before tastern alley them a plea from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek for a policy Zeballos Mrs. Thomas May oh; and children left on Wednesday night's train for Smithers where she will join her husband who was recently appointed sanitary inspector for the district of Smithers. , , Premier ... reaffirming support of the nationalist government. hurrying home to prepare to entertain Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska who Is to .07 .05 .01 .33 'i .22 .42 5.75 3.40 11.50 visit with him for three weeks. Governor and Mts. Gruening NEW POINT IN were here this morning from Juneau on the steamer Alaska and It Is Important to the whole nation," he asserted. ' INTERESTED IN RUPERT Governor Gruening made a note of some problems In regard to the movement of canned sal Princess Louise enroute south The first aircraft to land with Toronto Governor Gruening, in his interview at Prince Rupert, announced for the first time receipt of a new ruling of the Attorney General of the United States whereby government freight could be carried to Alaska in Canadian vessels despite restrictions which prevented ordinary commercial freight being carried thereby. This meant, the governor elucidated, that such articles as tractors and Bulldozers for the Alaska Road Commission, lumber for militray construction purposes, food products for the Army, Navy and Department of Indian Affairs could be tnoved by Canadian vessels. "It all amounted to a vast amount of tonnage," Mr. Gruening added. CITY CANCER SOCIETY SEEKING ADMINISTRATOR FOR $100 FUND X 1 The Prince Rupert unit of the British Columbia Cancer Society has a $100 fund for the benefit of cancer sufferers in this district but, because of public indifference, it is having difficulty to find administrators for the fund. The money was received recently from the B. C. Division of the Canadian Can- ; " cer Society and is to be used rangements can be made, pri- for emergency aid to cancer marily because of the $100 fund sufferers,- primarily to help which they felt might be need- i n covering transportation ed. BERLIN CRISIS PARIS, Secretary of State George Marshall summoned United "States financial and wheels In Prince Rupert was in September, 1921, when a barnstorming aviator from Las Vegas, Nevada, Clarence Prest, spent a .10 .16 .45 .24 Vi .13 Vi FRANCE AROUSED PARIS An authoritative source said today that France may invoke the British-French friendship treaty to force a change in British policy on the Ruhr. Britain aroused the French early this month when she made a joint announcement with the United States that the German people would be allowed to decide future ownership of the Ruhr's basic industries and that the Germans would be given immediate limited control of them. NATIONALIZATION LONDON The House of Commons Wednesday gave approval in principle to the government's bill to nationalize Britain's iron and steel industry. After three days of debate, the government defeated 373 to 211 an opposition motion to reject the bill. The measure was then read fro a second lime. TROUBLE AT Dl'NKEKQl'E PARIS French soldiers and police converged today on Dunkcrquc where two thousand striking doc: workres have barricaded themselves behind cargoes. Other dock workers received a call for a strike from the Communist-led Confederation General du Travail. ' WOMAN ailaCiiS WOMAN VICTORIA Mrs. Mary Att-wood, 71-year-old widow, is in critical condition in hospital today suffering injuries received Wednesday in a robbery attack by another wonma in a public lavatory. She was struck with a blunt monetary experts today from Washington and Berlin to advise on currency aspects of the Berlin crisis. Canadian .. .19 few weeks here doing stunt flights from an Improvised runway on Acropolis Hill where his Curtis biplane was finally des Smelters 125.50 This step was disclosed by a mon from Alaska through this port to the United States such as inspection requirements and promised that he would look Into this in Washington. He express- -ed himself definitely as favoring the development of the canned salmon traffic through here, v., . ""I still hope to see a car ferry service inaugurated from Prince Rupert to such Alaska ports as Ketchikan, Juneau and Haines," said the 'Governor. "It would be essential in costs to Vancouver where treat-! Mrs. Arnold said that several I: i I1 I 1 ment is available. "months ago, because of the ob Livan ZZL Fellow-knife .ake luck troyed when a gale blew it into a rockpile. TINY PLANE Bpratllng's airplane is equipped with a 75-h.p. Continental motor which gives It a cruising However, because of lack of vlous lack of interest in the public support ,the Prince Ru- cancer organization, she had United States delegation source and indicated that emphasis in the blockade dispute had shifted to technical aspects of the currency control problems in the former German capital. Great Britain said yesterday that Russian veto of a solution 1.40 .49 .70 3.10 4.00 .39 .22 .09 .10 .19 .43 .04 pert unit of the society Is on submitted her resignation to the verge of folding up and provincial headquarters but . it Governor Gruening reiterated off-repeated . statements that the Jones Act constituted a "gross discrimination" against might have done so at its an- had been Ignored. nual mcetina Wednesday after- 'New, since we have thi; Alaska. This discrimination was speed of about 110 miles' per hour. It is a two-seater but Spratling is flying solo, having admitted by the Supreme Court fQuebec noon except for the fact thatf money, we must find some way the six members present felt of administering it so that i. that It should remain active to will be available to cancer suf- of the Berlin crisis recently offered by so-called "neutrals" of the security council stood in the path of progress towards a set of the United States. Statehood extra space filled with luggage. 1 would, of course, mean the auto lowan la ... administer the fund. I ferers if needed," she said. Mayor Nora E. Arnold, who , When the fund is depleted, 00 V2 .0512 tlement. Canada is a member Spratling has been In AlasKa about two months .six weeks having been spent at Juneau. Prior to that he had made a swing In his plane around nor of the neutral group. ,u"g Lac 62 United States said it was ..11 Rcd D Lake 2 16 Re Red ready to talk with Russia when the blockade was lilted. Secretary of State Marshall said matic discontinuance of the Jones Act. "We are very hopeful," Governor Gruening said, "that statehood for Alaska will be enacted by the new Congress of the United States, possibly not at the first term next year but, at least within the second year term." The Democratic party, he point connection therewith that the Haines Highway should be kept open and 'this is , one thing that the Canadian governments could do,'" he suggested. He stated that the highway was now closed for the winter owing to snow con-' ditions on the Canadian portion of the road. The United States government was keeping its part . open. : This, of ' course, was only a 42-mile section of the whole 154 miles from Haines to Alaska Highway Junction and -the easiest part at that. ? Following the salmon ..." trap plebiscite in which Alaskans ex I Cockshutt J5 that the United States had dis cussed the matter directly with has been president of the unit it will be replenished again, ac-for the last three years, des- cording to a covering letter cribed public response to the . from the B. C. Division of the organization as "very discour- j Canadian Cancer Society, aging" and informed the meet-j Members suggested that some lng Of the desire of herself, existing organization be ap-Vice-President Mrs. J. D. Fra- proached with the idea of ad-scr and Secretary-Treasurer ministering It. Mrs. J. C. Gilker to resign be-J The meeting opened with the cause of pressure of other du- reading of a report on the an-ties. I nual conference of the B. C. An election of new officers Division of the Canadian Can-was postponed because of a cer Society held In Vancouver ::: purt Russia until it became apparent that the blockade" was established to gain political objectives to which Russia is not ' Crow thern and western AlasKa including calls at- Fairbanks, Nome and Kotzebue. His commission for the Department of Interior is to plan and organize a program of crafts education for Indians and Eskimos of the territory. Selected natives, ex-service men, will be taken to Mexico where they will be trained as Instructors in gold, silver and jade crafts, then returning to Alaska where workshop centres will be set up. prt ed out, was pledged to statehood for Alaska and the President had .40 2.01 54.00 .38 1.85 0412 3.35 .40 2.15 1.57 .15 Uonio ..... "' Rouvii expressed himself vigorously In instrument and has several skull fractures and deep scalp gashes. Her puise with $20 was taken. Her attacker was described as a "tall, blonde" woman. The aged woman had been on a shopping trip and was struck as she emerged from a cubicle. its favor. . f Gordon ' "We, therefore, referred the question to the security council as a threat to peace where It still remains," Marshall said. lack of attendance. The cur- late In September by Mrs. Frank rent officers agreed to retain Ellison, who attended as Prince "Rt.atphnnrt is an indlsnensible pressed themselves 7 to 1 In (Continued on Page 8) , Rock !on River" Miller step toward the development of their positions until other ar-' Rupert delegate. .38 1