Che aby, R CABS DLO DISPATCHED VOL. XLI, No. 166 es of Aviation Group Grounded @ Smithers Due to Rough Weather Socr Ose visit here today of seven members of the B.C il was cancelled when the four planes trans- ds PROV: NCIAL IBRARY, = ® ais.) " Lis : Ar | . “ PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1952 iround the province were unable to reach Prince bad weather ‘ Ol heo heduled to be held in the Civic Centre was re Destroys Plush sper Park Lodge otel Official Badly Burned But No Guest Casualties By The Canadian Pr , \- PEI Jasper Park Lodge, reputedly the huilding in the world, was destroyed last fire which broke out as guests danced in wm of the Roeky Mountain luxury resort. f | was badly; t. fire did not ounding bungalows f the 500 guests of he x Operators, Woodsmen bt dang yer la the ur in the cheek- 10 p.m. As the door of the } 1 betore flames belehed out d through the M T yne 200 guests ee oO ay dancing and they made an’ Justice Sloan Mediates i 5 years ago 30-Day Old IWA Strike ' 4200 square miles ground, was VANCOUVERN Union and to dining and|/management representatives Lies meet today at Victoria in an n left Edmonton, | attempt to reach a settlement in Jasper, early the $1,000,000-a-day British Co- evacuate hotel lumbia coast lumber strike It will be first meeting between Ottawa. secretary the disputants since the walkout the lodge, was| began a month ago nd was brought Chief Justice Gordon Sloan [wo or three | agreed Tuesday to act as media- iffered super-/| tor. He announced a few hours later that he called a meeting With! the ‘two factions. at 2°30 t said the ; . cled betweente™ today at the Court House 000,000. Loss of |“? Victoria Sie taunt ae Both sides said immediately CNR another they would attend the meeting ources esti- Meanwhile, the union said its representatives will meet south ern interior negotiators here to- h could not|qay, Operations in northern and diately WaS southern interier districts have wh and $4000 not been affected by the coast office were) woods strike ae SETTLED 1946 STRIKE 4 Chief Justice Sloan, who settled ibut Landings the 36-day strike of woodwork- ers in 1946, accepted the role of Prince Rupert fish mediator after umlon-manage e reported loaded ment representatives agreed to morning as mort his selection inds of halibut The 32,000 members of the} International Woodworkers of} I! become avail America have been on strike ent today. but ince June 15 when wage nego i . . r tiations deadlocked pace will be lim A suggestion that the chief | 5 ‘ justice act aS mediator was ap-| oe in Still COMING) nroved by the IWA Monday. | \rea 3, which was Offl-|Goast jumber operators’ repre- | it 12:01 a.m. last) sentatives agreed to the proposal | : Tuesday ty's sales on the Chief Justice Sloan, head of the British Columbia Court of 1, 17,000, 19, 19, 16, Appeal, explained his role of B.C. Lady, 61,000,| mediator would be to draw both Atlin; Western Mon-| sides together in new negotia- \ 100, 19, 19, 16, Royal;,! tions } 0,000, 19, 19, 16, B.C Neekis, 35,000, 19, 19, ‘ Packer Island Quertn, — T i D E S cee : 19, 16, Atlin; Good | ; oe a : 63,000, 19, 19, 16, B.C.} Thursday, July 17, 1952 Oslo, 18,000, 19, 19, 16,} (Pacific Standard Time* | Ispaco IT, $2,000, 19.3, 19,| High 10:35 15.5 feet ; Packers 22:13 18.9 ‘0 Co-op: Sea Maid, 30,000; | Low 4:10 5.2 16,000 15:57 9.9 feet reciprocal” bases with Ellis to operate a future daily service between the two northern points. Seven or eight Alaska officials, including Ketchikan’s mayor, will be met at the airport here Saturday morning when the in- augural flight arrives. Prince Rupert, Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a lunch- eon to officially. welcome the guests. The event will be at- tended by Mayor Harold Whalen, other city dignitaries and trans- port officials. Ellis Air Lines an eight-passenger Goose amphibian plane on the |new flight. Ketchikan, at 90. air the new development miles from Prince Rupert, will n “is a histerie step in | be reached in a 45-minue flight. Hon in the north” His | @'ny plans to work on a | Ketchikan air line. Kitval flight of wnat may | ) a4 regular daily air serv- veen Prince Rupert and . will be made Ellis Air Lines. Setchikan-based airlines ‘nN authorized by the Air ort Board of Canada to regular service be- ‘Ae two points and will ‘onday to operate its limes a week schedule. ‘nnhouncement was made by Bill Priest, manager of | Charlotte Airlines, which Nn working with Ellis for ‘our years to establish 1Y DY will rvice Priest was enthusiastic operate | Grumman | Robert Ellis is manager of the | PRINCE RUPERT'S FISHING FLEET might be tied mp like this if the July 19 scheduled strike comes off. Operators and United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ today in final talks ‘to settle t City Fathers Ask For Park Cleanliness Council Monday night issued a request to the city parks board that it purchase and instal waste containers at MeClymont park. City fathers complained of the appearance of the park because of its “paper-littered condition.” | appeal over radio station CFPR|Prince Rupert General Hospital! make the first helicopter flight Meanwhile, the council also had an answer to “lots of ad- verse publicity from the parks board in connection with clean- ing up Roosevelt park Ald. Michael Kreuger said he visited the park with Parks Chairman Pat Forman, and re- ported that in his opinion rub- ble left from removal of the former exhibition, had cleaned up Council passed a recommen- dation by Ald. Krenger that if the parks board wants any more cleaning up to be done, cost of such work should be taken off next year’s park estimates. Main contention is centred on jremoval of concrete footing of the former exhibition building, sold two years‘ago as scrap lum- oer. Alaska Ship Owners Settle Sailor Strike | SAN FRANCISCO @® — Things i were looking up Tuesday along | west coast waterfronts paralyzed 150 days by AFL sailors on strike | that has tied up more than 100 | vessels Settlement freeing 20°ships of Alaska Steamship Co. was rati- fied Monday by striking Sailors | Union Pacific, Federal cgnciliator Omar Hos- | kins said negotiations are pro- ceeding satisfactorily between feet | the Union and Pacific Maritime | feet | Association representing 24 other | | shipowners, mew Air Service Between Rupert, K etchikan pugurated With First Flight Saturday City Won't ee ‘Guarantee Paving Job will be hard-surfaced by the city at actual cost, and work is to begin almost immediately. But the city does not guarantee the job. Instructions for the paving were given*D. C. Stewart, sup- instructions, Mr. Stewart and that the city will | the completed job.” been | The controversial tennis courts erintendent of works, by city council Monday night. With the was told to notify the Rotary Club —Wwho built the courts—that “the surface is not properly prepared not assume any responsibility as to oy News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’ PRICE FIVE CENTS ol inns Bln? illite than sockeye than 1,000 native fishermen on Union negotiators are meeting his year’s salmon prices other propose cuts on some species. VICTORIA, B. C. 4 PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, 118 DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 , hoose Bennett As Premier Leader Avows Immediate Action on Strike Problem By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER.—W. A. C. Bennett; who bolted the Progressive Conservative party last year, will become the Social Credit premier of British Colum- bia in a few weeks. | A June 22 strike deadline was lifted when more urged to accept the 25-cent company offer on sockeye. Union now wants last year’s prices on all species of salmon, Companies He was chosen as Social Credit leader last night by his 18 fellow members-elect, He told reporters soon after his selection that the Social Credit cabinet will be formed as soon as he is called upon by the Lieutenant-Gover- nor to form a government. This is expected to be at the end of the month. Outgoing Liberal Premier Byron Johnson said last week he will recom- mend the party with the largest number of members in the 48- seat legislature to form the next government. Bennett, 51, was first elected to the B.C. Legislature as Pro- gressive Conservative in 1941. He failed twice in his efforts to wrest Conservative leadership from Herbert Anscomb. He followed his party into the Liberal-Progressive’ Conservative coalition and was re-elected in 1945. In 1948 he made an un- the Skeena and Naas rivers Year-Old Abandoned Baby Still Unclaimed As Fears Expressed For Safety of Mother Fears were expressed today! vealed the buggy, a pushcart for the safety of the unknown) type, was purchased for cash mother whose year-old baby girl| in a store here last Saturday. |was found early Monday aban-| The baby is reported in per- | doned in a downtown Prince Ru- |fect health. It was wering all | pert cafe. |new clothes at the time it was F. E. Anfield, superintendent | found. jof Indian Affairs, made another! The tiny tot was taken to for the mother to claim the) this morning for a check-up and | child, but so far no one has| later was examined by the clinic. | contacted the Indian. agent or) Phe chiid is being cared for at! RCMP. jthe Salvation Army Hostel. Helicopters Try successful attempt to take the Yale federal seat but again was re-elected in the 1949 provincial contest. CROSSES HOUSE At the 1951 session, he crossed the floor of the house with Mrs. Tilly Rolston and both sat as Independents. They quit the W. A. C. BENNETT ... New B.C. Premier Bennett Won Vote Over - Four Others - VANCOUVER—W.A.C. Bennett of Kelowna won the Social Credit Coalition and Progressive Conser- vative party in a row over hos- pital insurance. Early this year Bennett an- nounced he had joined the Social Credit movement and during the spring session of the legislature fired opening salvos for the party in B.C. . Bennett was chosen by secret Atlantic Flight BOSTON —Two huge heli- copters—pointed for Europe— took off today in an attempt to across. The “Flying Windmills,” heavily laden with gasoline, took off from Westover Air Force, base. Mr. Anfield said, however, that one family here offered to give) |} the baby a home but he has had to decline. There was nothing in the baby buggy to identify the | parents and a check has re-' } j | . Movies May | air announced today tha Be Closed cial election will be held M e . ’, one lection will be Canada’s By Strike lritth neteristal contest this ; ,.| Year, making it the busiest year VANCOUVER (CP)-Vancouver's| for voters since 1949, when five movie theatres may be closed} were held, entirely or severely curtailed by| Announcing the proposed ac- a strike of film exchange work-| on, McNair said the issue will |be his Liberal government's re- me |fusal to recognize an interna-| It announced ‘Tuesday | tional union as bargaining agent that 50 workers of eight film| for provincial public servants. distributors have voted in fa-; He referred to a _ proposed vor of striking to back wage| walkout tomorrow by mainten- demands ance employees of the publicly- The strike would immediately| owned New Brunswick Electric block delivery to theatres of all: Power Commission, who want films of unions in volved who| their union—the - International claim there have been no pay| Brotherhood of Electrical Work- increases for three years. lers «{TLC-AFL)—recognized by} The workers are awaiting a/| the government yes or no decision on the waik He added that any power out from union headquarters in| commission employees stopping New York |work will “voluntarily discharge | themselves from service.” The election will be the first in Canada with recognition of a government employees’ union as a major issue. — WEATHER — Forecast Cloudy today. Sunny and warm Thursday. Wind northwest 25 in | was Red China Accepts Geneva Rules TOKYO. — Communist China today conditionally recognized the Geneva conventions ban-~ ning of germ warfare and set- ting rules for treatment of war prisoners. : United Nations officials here and in Korea would make no official comment on the Red an- nouncements, made in separate to light after midnight. Low to- night and high tomorrow at Port Hardy and Sandspit, 52 and 68; Prince Rupert, 52 and 65. DAVEY JONES’ DOMAIN The average depth of the ocean NB Premier Calls Election On Employee Union Issue FREDERICTON: (CP)—Premier John B. Mc- exposed areas today, decreasing | ballot, first time in B.C. history that a party leader had been so selected. The party declined to say whether there were other candidates for leader- ship, and said that Bennett’s selection was unanimous. NOT MINORITY “Social Credit does not regard itself as minority government,” Bennett told press conference, “We look on ourselves as a duly elected government with full _power to conduct the affairs of *the province. It will be a policy of the Social Credit government to bring confidence in to a stable government of the prov- ince.” ‘ He said the first problem to be tackled by his government will be strikes by 32,000 lumber workers and 2000 carpenters—if they are not settled by the time he takes office. He said his government will go ahead with its campaign policy of putting hospital in- surance on voluntary basis. He also promised immediate ac- tion on the province’s labor, liquor and workmen’s compen- sation laws. t New Brunswick provin- onday, Sept. 22. Superliner Rests On Speed Laurels NEW YORK (€P)—The new superliner United States settled into the queen's throne Tuesday and defied the maritime world to unseat her. : The fastest passenger liner afloat, she docked to a triumph- | ant New York harbor welcome after wresting the trans-Atlan- tic speed laurels from the bigger British liner Queen Mary. Aasked about the Mary’s chances of regaining the title, United States skipper Commo- dore Harry Manning told report- ers: “I wish her luck, but I doubt very much she could: do DEUCES WILD During the middle ages play- ing cards possessed names like of coins,” and ‘the hanging man’ “The two of cups,” the “cavillo qparty leadership on the first ballot over four other nominees, it was learned today. His election was then made unanimous by his 18 fellow members-elect at the first party caucus since the June 12 pro- vinciad election. Other candidates for leader- ship were Peter V, Paynter, Soci Credit organizer who failed take the Revelstoke seat in the election; J. A. Reid, long-time Social Crediter and newly-elec- ted member for Salmon Arm; Thomas Irwin, elected in Delta, and Rev. P. A. Gagladi, who will represent. Kamloops. Quebec Goes To Polls QUEBEC \()—French Canada elects 92 members to its 24th legislature today, climaxing 4 vigorous month-long election campaign. Quebec voters go to the polls to determine the makeup of Quebec's provincial assembly in which the government had a majority of 71 members at dis- solution May 28. Standing in the last house: Union National 81, Liberals eight, Nationalists one, Indepen- dent one, vacant one. Total 92. Eligible voters total nearly 2,250,000, highest in provincial history and all indications from lively well attended campaign meetings point to a record vote. Nearly one-fifth of Canada’s juvenile delinquents come from homes broken by, death, divorce or separation, at: Queen Mary had held both east and west transatlantic speed records since 1938. United States broke them both within two weeks. United States docked four blocks from where the world’s largest liner Queen Elizabeth broke out welcoming bunting. Elizabeth is probably the only ship afloat with a chance to outspeed the United States. Her secret wartime speeds are reported to have been terrific. There have been veiled hints the Elizabeth might give it a try grand jury which recently Jacques Duclos released injured, but the apartmen broadcasts by Peiping radio. Observers speculated state- ments possibly meant: 1, Reds found a way to break the stalemate in Korean armis- | tice talks over prisoner ex-| change. 2. Or it was a continuation | of Communist charges that - United States employed* germ | + | , warfare in Korean fighting. U.S. repeatedly denied charges. | @ o significance «in Air Raid 0 Peipin casts : err s eeace TOKYO — Peiping radio said Added significance was tached since they quoted Foreign Min- | ister Chou En-lai. Important) today more than 2,000 people below the sea level is 12,450 feet. manent RC frequently have been received} big Allied raid on North Korean from Chou. | capital, Pyongyang, Friday. Earthquake, Followed by Roar Felt in Powell River District pronouncements by Red radio| were killed and 4,170 injured in! shower * one of these days. } POWELL RIVER (—A minor jearthquake of several seconds | duration followed by a loud roar | was felt in Powell River district |Tuesday. No damage Was re- | ported. | The seismograph at the Do- }minion observatory at Victoria quake’s epicentre at ,about 120 miles from observa- | tory. Cook, 60. * WASHINGTON — Ermys Walter Reed hospit president was stricken wi * Two Loggers Burned CONCRETE, Wash.—Two loggers burned to death and two others narrowly escaped when a slashing fire broke out of control today and jumped into high timber. One victim was identified as Purl * Truman Enters Hospital | Sunday, described by his aides as not serious. BULLETINS Jury Head's Home Bombed PARIS—A bomb was thrown today against the door of the apartment of Pau! Didier, president of the ordered Communist leader from prison. No one was t was badly damaged. * ‘ * President Truman entered al today for a check-up. The th a mild virus infection on