AT ST tt The Daiky News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER TAR CABS Boldier ot by Reader ” uebec Private |, lied by Rifle | (CP) — An|k of inquiry is| z the fatall/@ Canadian Korean ||’ of Canada’s} oldiers. here Friday, |} Major Guy D’Ar- |} to death!' had threatened s aN ical. off his rifle. COVERED WAGON TREK— This { ivate Private Joseph 20, of Cant- lied in the lines lion Royal 22nd ommander. Sanscartier’s| Mile trek from Pennsylvania to nder, shot the rene of the original Mennonite the lives of | *OD8 the historic route. The ar rmy said three fourth-generation descenc amic 36-year- Weber, Amzie Martin and Elias ives in Mont- DSO for para- and play- in the re- during the the George eadership in rescue. t inelude the Sanseartier in t also re- Of Packer, By The Car VANCOUVER.—Mr. . "| en wounded judgment handed down lat ired in ac- : g » the num-| the sinking last May 24 of I far suffered) >. : a i . in Manes Co-operative Association f 160 dead, The 76-foot Kanawaka, one issing and! of the largest and best known packers on the coast for 15 years, sank off Gower Point after it was rammed by the K Employee Union Steamships vessel SS ih Capilano e nt d at Tahtsa The association's claim for the Morrison-| damages for loss of the vessel it West Tah-|and its cargo, which it valued " ed to death) al $50,000, was heard in Admir ’ hursday,|alty Court here 10 days ago 7 . today. Mr. Justice Smith held that 4-year-old|the Kanawaka was two-bthird: etails of thetto blame and the Capilano, one iilable Mr. | third Vernon The six-man crew aboard the |Kanawaka at the time ,of the collision was rescued by — the Capilano crew after they took to their lifeboat Tom Dalzel was captain of the Prince Rupert-bound boat at the time The to the returning after dis Kanawaka was northern city icharging a shipment of halibut in Vancouver, The crash occur red shortly before midnight on May 24 The Co-op, at the time of the crash, said it would cost mort ji than $100,000 to replace thelr boat, which was equipped to pack 135,000 pounds of — iced salmon | Changes Sought In Canada’s Divorce laws b ( VERNON Extension of ' grounds for divorce and changes in the adoption law were urged by the committee on admini tration of civil justice here Fri | day at the annual meeting of the B.C. section, Canadian Bar Asso elation. In a paper delivered by Van couver barrister O. F Lunnell, the committee asked that courts | be given power to dissolve mar- | FLCOMES MAYORS—Bran- hawk and dres- buckskins, Chief Buffalo of the Stony eicomes delegates to onvention of the riages on the following new rederation of May- grounds: icipalities in Cal- Desertion without cause for af €d least three years Cruelty Incurable insanity care and treatment for five years beside him is Miller of Van- eration president (COP PHOTO) Channel Swimmer Forced to Quit Less Than Mile From U.S. Shore np UR requiring () Calif. (AP)— ce Chadwick, two- | 1” of the English| knot current for the up to the choppy | hours, Finally, so arm-weary ifter coming with- she could hardly signal her help- of a mile of ers, she asked to be lifted from i She swam at, least 20 miles Miss Chadwick fought 4 four- last three } r Catalina, Channel, | the water. n I ear-old swimmer from| A waiting crowd, estimated at as hauled from the|}more than 50,000, was strung hours and 50 minutes|along Cabrillo Beach ’ plunged off the Is- | surrounding bluffs for ' Santa Catalina Island, ! miles. Bail |} VOL. XLI, No. 157 | | fi | iF Conestoga wagon ends a 500- Kitchener, Ont., tracing the at towns and cities vehicle was manned by jants of the pioneers, Loren Brubaker (CP Photo) settlers cient Blame Split in Crash Capilano dian Pre Justice Sidney Smith, in a e Friday, split blame for ’rince Rupert Fishermen’s ishpacker the Kanawaka. American . Ship Streaks Toward Record LONDON @ queen of the seas cut America’s new the SS United through’ thick and treacherous fog with unslacken ed speed today and left no doubt she is headed for a new record crossing the Atlantic. She is re- ported hitting 36 knots The 53,000-ton streak of powel is expected to pass Bishop's Rock, off the English coast be fore dawn Monday and rip from States, six to 10 hours off the trans- Atlantic speed record held by Britain's Queen Mary Committee Urged To Discuss City Parks Programs A the the Parks Board was ironed out the two bodies in the Civic misunderstanding” between Civie Centre Association and by | Centre last night pr. R. G. Large, Civic Centre i chairman, suggested that a com- mittee be appointed to discuss slans of both groups.e He suggested newly-appointed ager of the Civic Jones of Vancouver, last night, and treasurer Don Forward represent the Civic Centre. and that Park Board also appoint two members They would decide how money also that the secretary-main- Centre, Fred who arrived budgeted by the board for park | supervision would be spent to the best advantage and also at range for employment of super- visory personnel at parks ‘and swimming pools ‘Veteran Newsman Dies in East ST. THOMAS, Ont. @®—L. H Dingman, one ef Canada’s old- time newspaper men, died yes- terday. He was 87 and had been a newspaperman for more taan 70 years Mr. Dingman was president and publisher of the St, Thomas | Times-Journal and the Stratford Beacon-Herald FENCELESS SHETLANDS Fields in the Shetland Islands and the are divided into fenceless strips several to give each family a share of ; the different types of land. Arres | trio | week for fishing in an area out | |side Dundas Island, which is| |reserved for troll fishermen Two other men have been ‘|summoned to appear in court} here next week on the same | " Teharge | disclosed Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—“Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’ PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1952 : Catches Confiscated d In By Fisheries Officials — Three sockeye, saimon gillnet fishermen were| | ‘convicted in court here today of fishing in a pro-| [% i se hibited area and were fined $10 and costs and had| % heir catches confiscated, Officials of the Dominion De yartment of Fisheries said the} were arrested earlier this| Merchant Ships Hit By Strike Lumber Piled High on Docks AREA RESERVED Special to The Daily News Fisheries Department officials VANCOUVER — The strike of explained that the area where | 32.000 members of the Interna- the men were apprehended reserved for troll fishermen un der an arrangement established | All white men, they are from the Naas River area Names of the men were not} They appeared before Magis- trate Don Forward now is being felt by the mer- ichant fleet several years ago. | Mleven ships are tied up in) The case was the first in|3-C. ports, unabie to load tum- | Prince Rupert since the season | ber. Eight of them are under icharter to the British Timber | Evidence disclosed that one of | Control Board and port officials | the fishermen had about 59| here estimate cost to their own- fish.” ers at $650 a day to lie idle in “oye | port. WEATHER BAD Millions of feet of lumber Reports from the fishing areas, piled on docksides have been of the Naas and Skeena mean-| deelared “hot” by the LW,A., wifile said the run is fairly good| whose members have been on although the weather has been! strike since June 14. against fishermen There has been no move by Bleak weather has prevailed,| either the operators or the union forring the soekeye to remain'to fe-convene wage talks since jin deep water. The heayy run| the gvork stoppage took effect. is expected to begin early next) eanwhile another anti-pick- week leting order has been granted Fisheries Departinent officials | against the IWA said catches confiscated from| Mr. Justice H. 5 Wood in Su- fisherman arrested in prohibited | preme Court late Friday granted areas are sold and the money| the injunction, prohibiting pick- returned to the Crown leting in front of the Windsor They warned that | Building Supplies Limited, in are patrolling all areas and said Burnaby ie fishermen should keep within} 4” injunction prohibiting pick- their bounds }eting in front of a Terrace mill oe was granted in Prince Rupert Sunday Basebali earier this week A Canadian Press report said Regular league baseball game will be played tomorrow after- ships are tied up in Vancouver, Nanaimo, Alberni and Chemain- noon at 2 p.m. at Roosevelt Park Gordon & Anderson will meet us Abel & Odowes opened last June 22 inspector Romania Fires Foreign Minister BERLIN (AP)—-Anna Pauker lhas been fired from her job as | foreign minister of Romania -TIDES— Sunday, July 6, 1952 {Pacific Standard Time) | She was the one-time darling High feet|of International Communism 13:01 18.0 feet | who was purged in May from the Low 6:34 20 feet|Romanian Communist Party’s | 18:29 7.6 feet | High Command. BULLETINS SEOUL.—UN pilots destroyed or damaged 21 Communist jets and levelled a big Red military school without losing a plane in a Fourth of July raid near the Manchurian border, it was reported today by the U.S. Fifth Air Force. * * * HENLEY-ON-THAMES. — Mervyn Wood of Australia today won the Diamond Sculls, emblem- atic of rowing supremacy. He is the current Olympic sculling champion. * * * SYDNEY.—Snow fell in many parts of Aus- tralia today. Drifts 20 feet high were reported in some sections, | | ‘ * * * SEATTLE.—The last large draft of Canadian troops—950 men—from Korea will arrive here Tuesday. E * * * VANCOUVER. —- Fuel dealers have warned citizens that a scwdust shortage looms in Vancou- ver because of the IWA strike. * TORONTO. — Textile workers have reached agreement on their six-month-old strike, More than 6000 men have been idle. They accepted an 11-cent- an-hour increase. | | TEN CENTS (including comic section) 3 Sockeye Salmon Fishermen — is | tional Woodworkers of America ~~ Prohibited Area Anybody Home? TINY TOMMY EDWARDS investigates the home of the oompah-pah in this huge sousaphone parked on the grass at Waterloo Park during a rest period of a Waterloo, Ont., country band concert, The little fellow was a visitor from Brantford, Ont. CCF Social Credit Still Tied As Vote Count Continues. pared with results of the 1949 election, (Number of candidates leading in 1952 election shown in brackets): Results in four Vancouver seats| after election—CCF and Social |may decide whether the CCF or | Credit ran cheek-by-jowl in race the Social Credit party forms the|to obtain the largest group in /next government in British Co- | new house, | lumbia. Early today, final returns 1952 1949 | Wither way it will be minority had been tabulated for 32 CCF gue OD 7 | government—neither can com-| seats, in another the unofficial Social Credit 14 (3) 0 | mand a majority in the 48-seat| count immediately after the Liberals . 2(4) 26 | legislature. | election decided the outcome. Progressive Cons... 2 (2) 13 | As official counting of alter-| Fifteen were in doubt. taker a. 1 pretiee votes cast in June 12 pro-| As returning officers began Independent 9 1 vineial election dragged on—it| their day of counting today this) Totals 2.02.0 10.0.48 “es 48 started Thursday, three weeks| was the party standing com-| Four key seats which may settle the issue are the two-mem- ber constituencies of Vancouver- Burrard and Vancouver Centre. Of 15 seats still doubtful when counting broke off last night, 11 are in big-city constituencies of Vancouver and Victoria. In most, the final decision is not expect- ed for another week. Liberal Premier Johnson, beat- en personally in. New Westmin- ster- announced that as soon’as results are complete he will recommend that the lieutenant- governor call on the party with the largest group in the legis- lature to form a government. Observers predicted that a minority government would not last a year. The Social Credit gained 14 seats—10 from Liberals and four from Progressive Conservatives. The CCF made six of its gaitis at the expense of the Liberals, | taking one seat from Progres- sive Conservatives. Liberals and Progressive Conservatives each Death Toll Nears 300 U.S. Holiday ere one seat from oe other. | CHICAGO (AP)—Toll of violent | paign against the careless use of | e During deaths in the United States dur- | fireworks i) WEATHER sere line the Fourth of July holiday Only two deaths—in the total | | week-end edged toward 300 to- lot 276—were caused by fire-| Synopsis day, bringing only one glimmer | works | A fresh outbreak of cool Pacific of encouragement—the country| Traffic accidents accounted for ic air pushed rapidly eastward appeared to be winning its cam- | 168 fatalities, drowning took the | over the province in the past 12 esas ea - | lives of 81 and 25 persons died in | hours. Gusty westerlies whipped | miscellaneous accidents during | the southern tip of Vancouver the first 37 hours of the three-| Island and the lower mainland reaching gaie force for brief - | periods during the night. HEADING NORTH | Showers wiJl persist during the Scores cf Americans in Van-|qay, especially over the moun- |couver celebrated the Fourth of | tains of the interior. Resident Dies In Van couver | July by embarking on a cruise | ..|through the Inside Passage on | wien Wright; who Eves "| board the Canadian National's | North coast region: Variable Prince Rupert before, as well aS|qcg prince George. | cloud iness and widely scattered after incorporation, died in Van-| The ship left Vancouver last | showers today, becoming over- couver last week, it was learned | night on her third regular sum- | cast tonight Intermittent rain here today. | mer cruise to Prince Rupert and | Sunday. Little change in tem- dae d | Alaska | perature. Winds northwest 25 in He was in the seventies, and|""p,-cengers came from as far| the exposed areas today, becom- for the past few years, had been | away as Boston and New York. |ing southerly 25 after midnight. in declining health | They were joined by many Can- | Light winds elsewhere. Low t0- Accompanying former Prem- | adians who came from all parts night and high Sunday at Port ier T. D. Pattullo, and John | of the country to have a look at| Hardy 46 and 60; Sandspit and , : : |B.C.’s fabulous west coast. Horn, each of whom, as well as| Mr. Wright, had been through | | Prince Rupert 50 and 60. the Klondyke stampede, he ar-~| ‘ne rionvke sanese, ne AGREEMENT APPROVED TO SET FISHING RULES IN PACIFIC up residence, remaining until | the new city became an estab- | | et cone aeeneien ane WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate Friday approved a 10- lerage and realty office of Mr.| Ye" international convention with Canada and Japan to set Pattullo, later taking over the] UP what Senator Warren Magnuson (Dem.-Wash.) termed “ground rules for fishing in the North Pacific.” The agreement allocated fishing grounds to States and other signers, and provides a basis for international 'Commercial Hotel, as well as /being interested in other local agreements on conservation practices. Approval was by unanimous voice vote. | | | i Rupert Scenery To Be Included In New Fiim Board Production Special to The Daliy News OTTAWA—British Columbia and especially Central B.C., is to receive nationwide publicity on the screen in the near future " The National Film Board is expected to begin shooting footage in Prince Rupert area, in Vancouver, Prince George, Nechako, Kemano, Kitimat, Fort St. John and Quesnel this month, for a production called “B.C. Growth.” The film will, among other things, depict expendiiture of heavy capital expenditure in hitherto unopened territory, a 41 per cent increase in population in one. generation and the problem of expansion versus conservation. Director of the NFB crew is R. Weyman, Cameraman is H. Lemieux | | | i . | Pioneer Rupert day holiday. Forecast } tho Tri the United | affairs, Eventually he became | liquor venor at Ocean Falls and settled in Vancouver a few years | ago,