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Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prinée Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest”

VOL. XLI, No. 229

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NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1952

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yp LEAGUE SEASON ENDS
p SERIES WEDNESDAY

; Major League season ended on
in the National and American
was little excitement. It didn’t

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d Time in Month

Lod of $500 in Goods

time within a month, thieves
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the pennant race—New York

decided last week that’ they
World Series classic.

Jack McNulty said the loot in-
|cluded shotgun cartridges, sev-
jeral kinds of wrenches and
| other tools
Four weeks
tered the

ago thieves en-
same store at 609

Second Avenue West and made/[

ff with $50 in
rifles and some
Nick Pawlucki, operator of}
Wesholme Rooms which adjoins)
the hardware store, first noticed |
the hardware store had been|
entered when he went to attend
furnace in the rooming
house on Sunday morning.

He notified Mr. McNulty
who in turn called RCMP and
subsequent investigation prov-
ed that entrance was gained
through the basement of the
reoming house and then by
prying open a rear window
of the store.

Besides making off with the
tools, $2 worth of pennies were
taken from the cash register.
Nothing in the safe. which con-
tains only office records, was

cash, several

the

Other crime in the city dur-
ing the week-end was at a
minimum and only .four per-
sons were taken into custody
on drinking charges.

The quartet appeared before
magistrate W. D. Vance this}
morning and were levied fines

 

RCMP said their efforts of |

| recent weeks to curb drunkeness |

ind fighting in downtown sec- |
tions are beginning to pay off
and cited the past week-end’s)|
activities as an example.

Last Tuesday two men were
fined $100 each for fighting
the streets. They were Donak
Alexander Cottrell of Port Bg-
sington and Maurice Morrison)
of Port Simpson,

Police said the men were ar
rested last Monday night and)
charged under the Criminal |
Code. fines were levied in police
court the next day by magis-
W. D. Vance.

Hume Orders

Investigation
Of Librarian

VANCOUVER ()—Mayor Fred
Hume of Vancouver said Satur-
day he will order an immediate

investigation into how and why
1 married woman civic servant
now attending the Communist
néace” conference in China was

given leave of absence

The servant, Mrs. Kay Gard-
ner, clerk of a branch of the |
Vancouver Public Library, was |
given two months off to “go|
abroad” with her husband Ray, |

 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
   

 

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MEETING THE LLAMA—Eight-year-old Patsy Whalen wanted

to meet the llama on the Afric
told she could sit on its back, but she decided against it. She took
her dad, Mayor Harold Whalen, with her to see the unique zoo

on wheels which left Saturday
sponsored by the Prince Rupert
is a member

BCHIS Changes Regulations
Regarding Dependents Claims

By The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — Relaxation of hospital insurance

xegulations. concerning
nounced by Health and

Organizer
Confident of
Popularity

Confidence that the Social
Credit, party could seat 30 mem
bers In the legislature in an
other provincial election was

expressed here Saturday by Peel
V. Paynter, Vancouver, party or

ganizer for B.C. and first, vice
president of the Social Credit
national association

“Our strength through the
province has already increa sed
by at least one-third and we are
gaining more support all the
time,”’ Mr. Paynter said

“Many I have spoken to sa)
they refrained from voting for
us in the last election because
they did not think we stood a
chance. But, after eing
showing we made, they. have
changed their minds and would
support us next time. Our in
creased strength in the Skeena
district is particularly notice
able.”

Mr. Paynter forecast wnothver
general election before next
spring. While laere he held di

cussions with Art Murray, Social
Credit candidate in the last elec-
tion, and other party represen

1 Can-' an official of the British Colum- | tatives His visit included Smith

bia Peace Council,

ers and Terrace

ered Boat Blows Apart at 200 mph

 

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Support the

A | spray and was scattered in pieces

about the storied Loch Ness.

Cobb’s wife saw her 52-year-
old speed demon husband to his |
death. Cobb was picked out of |
the water still alive, but he died |
a few moments later,

Cobb, six-foot-two speed spe-
cialist who piloted an automo- |
bile over the Utah flats at better
than 403 miles an hour in 1947—
the fastest man has ever travel-
led on land—used a speedboat

 

 

 

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specially built for an attempt at
the world water speed record
The jet engine was similar to
the ones Which propel Britain’s
jet-engined Comet airliners.

The boat cost $42,000 to build
The speedboat already had
streaked across the Loch Ness at
173 miles per hour on Sept. 19
But the world record is 178.4 set
this year by Stanley Sayers of
Seattle, Wash., in his boat, the
§lo-Mo-Shun IV.

Welfare Minister Eric Mar-

I OT dcaadeeihl
{tion in a recognized institution |
te iearning ayer e

championships
Musial finished the season
capture the third straight title

the satne batting champions in

Korean western front and
Chinese Reds drive the G
tion, ,

Greek casualties were not an-
nounced but the mistaken
bombing is reported.to have hit

only a small number,
Greek troops had seized the

an Zoo Train last week and was

 

 

night for Terrace. The z00 was
Shrine Club of which the mayor

held the crest through three
furious Communist counter
blows.

Five hours later, just as the
Redg were hurling the fourth

 

 

swooped down to support the
Greek’s. U.S. Eighth Army said
some bembs fell short on south-
jern slopes where the Greeks
were fighting.

The Greeks pulled back to

dependents hae been. amx|‘Meg Jump oft position.

hwighies Army said without qual-
*tin ification that it was the fourth
i : | Red counter attack that knock-

| First change allows the head} og the Greeks off the hill.
of a household to claim as de-|

pendent an unmarried brother |

lor sister over 18 and under 21) .
| head of the household and 2s| Major League

| who is mainly dependent on the
iis furthering his or her educa-~

Second change allows the}
head of a household to claim as}
|a dependent unmarried brother

On Sex Count
lor sister, or son-in-law, daugh- |

lter-in-law or sister-in-law over| CHICAGO (CP) — Rookie out-

Fain, the $10,000 draft bargain of the Athletics, ended his
season With .327 average in winning his second straight title.
Not since 1913-14 seasons have the Major Leagues boasted

 

UN Troops Lose Ground
In Bombing Error by Jets

SEOUL (CP)—Four United States jets Sunday
aecidentially bombed newly won allied hill on the

reek infantry off the posi-
°

Big Nori hill before dawn and| @am

drive,U.S. F-80 fighter bombers |

An official spokesman” of the!

 

 

While Police

Sunday with a 336 mark to
and the sixth of his career.

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two successive years.

Egypt Wars
On Leading
Politicians

CAIRO (” — Gen. Mohammed
Naguib’s government today de-
clared war on Mustafa El Naha’s
WAFD party unless something
unexpected happens. The show-
down can have only one end—
victory for the soldier over the
politician.

WAFD’s attitude is one of de-
fiance of Naguib’s regime. Most
political parties purged them-
selves in line with the govern-
ment’s orders, WAFD, claiming
to be the largest single political
organization in the country, has
refused to comply With the new
Yaw which sets a limit of Oct. 6
for compliance.

helped counter attacking

 

 

Logger Found Bleeding
In City Rooming House

Musial, Fain Win Batting Titles

NEW YORK @—Stan Musial, the silent but destructive
menace of the St, Louis Cardinals, and “Holla Guy” Ferris Fain
of Philadelphia Athletics, won the 1952 Major League batting

’ Immigrant Fights For Life

Launch Probe

A 34-year-old man who came’to Prince Rupert
Saturday in search of a job in a
fighting for his life in hospital.

l6gging camp is

Sven Gevelen, an electrician
by trade; was found in a hall-
way of a downtown rooming
house shortly before 7 o'clock
Sunday night with blood
streaming from his cheat.

He was unable to speak co-
herently and was rushed to the
hospital.

RCMP are investigating and
an officer is on duty at the
hospital.

Gevelen is reported to have
come here by train from Van-
couver following a stay on the
prairies. Prior to that he lived
in Ontario. He came to Canada
in April, 1951.

A logger from an interior
mill who was visiting friends
in the rooming house said he
saw Gevelen slump to the
floor of the hallway. He said
the man stood beside a wall
for a few minutes before he
fell.

He helped him into a chair
ana it was them he noticed the
man was bleeding.

When the police and ambul-

 

If by that date the WAFD at-
titude remains unchanged, it
will automatically cease to be a
political party.

WAFD announced on Saturday
night that it was going out of
business officially rather than
do without Mustaphan Nahas,

minister, said the party will con-
tinue its activities in a hint that
it might go underground after
33 years of dominant activity.

Allies Offer

New Proposal
For Armistice

“MUNSAN, Korea (@—The Allies

 

 

LET’S PLAY—This baby mon-
key hardly gives its mother

 

18 years of age who is finan-| fielder Jim Rivera was arresteo
|cially dependent upon the|Sunday in the Chicago White
| household by reason of yhpsical|Sox clubhouse on a complaint
|or mental infirmity jof the 22-year-old wife of a)
| In both of these cases, the old| soldier that he raped her in ee
| regulations only made such pro-| apartment Saturday night.
|vision for dependent sons and| Booked for rape but not for- |
| daughters mally charged, Rivera was held|
| Third change allows parents,|for questioning by the police |
|parents-in-law, grand-parents,|sex bureau Monday. Police said|
jand grandparents-in-law, who | he denied Mrs. Janet Gater’s |
lare financially dependent onjaccusation and told them the}
| the household head to be claim-| attractive brunette statistician
led as dependents. submitted willingly after invit-

. ee ing him to her south side apart-|
~WEATHER—

ment. |
She identified Rivera as her
Synopsis

assailant while he played base- |
ball Sunday in the final game
of the season against St. Louis
Browns.

Booked-as Joseph M. Rivera,
the former Seattle, Wash., Pa-

Precipitation amounts in ex-
ss of one inch for the past 24
hours were again reported from
|most stations on western and

northern Vancouver Island and

ce

» rf, S
along the. northern mainland. a ee Pomme
The Charlottes reported only Sai e is separate rom his

wife, Maxine, but they recently
made plans to reconcile.

Rivera, New York born Puerto
Rican, entered the major leagues
amid a storm of controversy. He
‘had served a five-year term in
Atlanta Penitentiary after be-
ing court martialed at Barks-
dale Field, Los Angeles on a
charge of attempted rape while
serving in the army. Complain-
ant against the 30-year-old out-
fielder was the daughter of an
army officer.

about one-half inch while else-
where only very small quantities
were recorded

This is the result of an exten-
sive low pressure area covering
southern Alaska and the north
Pacific. This stcrm is spread-
ing a flow of very moist air over
all coastal regions

No change in the picture is
j}expected in the next 48 hours
so the present weather and tem-
peratures are likely to persist
through Tuesday

 

‘ Baseball Commissioner Ford
Forecast
Gale warning cancelled, ee ood, when Rivera came
Cloudy with showers today Oe ee

and Tuesday. “If in future, he shows he

Little change in

temperature, Winds southerly 20|has not profited by his ex-|
in exposed areas, otherwise light. perience, this office will take)
Low tonight and high tomorrow | action. i

 

at Port Hardy, Sandspit and
Prince Rupert, 52 and 58.

 

SWEET STUFF
Average farm price of Cana-
Some 34,00 Finns constitute the | dian ample sugar in 1952 reached |
the largest group of foreign) 43 cents a pound, compared with,
workers in Sweden. {40 cents in 1951, |

 

offered three new proposals on
Sunday for breaking the long
Korean armistice deadlock by
giving Communists. face-saving
outs on the prisoner exchange.
First Red reaction was scorn-
ful: nothing new.

The Allied plan would still
let each prisoner decide whether
he wanted to be repatriated but
would give the Reds a chance to
gloss over this angle to their
own people.

While North Korean General

To Hang Dec. 9
Nam Ii, senior Red delegate, ten-

PORT ARTHUR (P)—George| tatively rejected the plans, .he
Hladiy, 35-year-old Ukranian) left the room to be back down
immigrant, was sentenced, to be . ~ nA commas tn *
hanged Dec, 9 by Mr. Justice] SOP © G0 SO. Se :
D. R. J. Keliy in Assize court Pyongyang, Peiping and possibly

any rest and played a big part
here entertaining the children
who visited the African Zoo
‘Train. The specially-built rail-
way cars that house the birds
and animals is on show at
Terrace today.

Man Sentenced

 

 

* \the millionaixg old guard leader.

ance arrived, the injured man
was unable to tell them what
happened. ,

The logger said Gevelen ap-
peared to have “seven or eight
stab wounds” in his chest.

Begins Today

VANCOUVER (CP) — British
Columbia’s three-man liquor
inquiry board will meet here to-
day and it is expected hearings
of briefs will begin shortly
thereafter.

Dean Cecil Swanson, one of
the board members, has return-
ed to the city from the mesting
of his Anglican synod. in-Lon-

 

don;-Ont., and from a couple

of unscheduled talks with liquor
control authorities in Toronto.
Other members of the board
are H. H. Stevens and George
Home. ‘
Meanwhile, Attorney-General
Robert Bonner has advised all
members of the legislature to
inform interested parties in
their constituencies to prepare
briefs ready for a visit by the
board.

AORANGI LEAVES
PACIFIC SERVICE

AUCKLAND, N.Z. @-—-The liner
Aorangi will be withdrawn from
the Sydney-Auckland-Vanecouver
service next May, it was™an-
nounced last night.

 

 

Saturday for the murder July Moscow is expected.
Sasuree) : Negotiators agreed to a 10-da
26 of another immigrant, Josef S a y

recess.

Panok The Allied move made no
Panok’s body, trussed around

the neck with ropes and with/ that no prisoner would be forced

two railway plates weighing 20|\to return to Communist rule.

pounds each wired to his neck| However, it would allow the Reds |

and feet was found floating in|to announce that all prisoners
McIntyre River here August 8. were repatriated.

 

      

   

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RCAF PACK MULES—Looking as if one were giving a “piggy-bac

Union Steamship Company,
agents for the Canadian-Austral-

jian Line, owners of the Aorangi,
change in the basic U.N. position |

said the withdrawal will be made
because of the Aorangi’s age.
The vessel is 28 years old.

It will mean an end of pagssen-
ger service in the Pacific under
the British flag.

 

k” ride to the other, two C-119

Fairchild Packets of the RCAF, recently received from the United States, are seen aloft, With
a range of 1,100 miles, the Packet is scheduled to become the “pack mule” of the RCAF, even-

ally supplanting the Dakota for transport and freight duties.

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