re: «pio DISPATE HED BURNT CREEK GE KNOB LAK |} @ BUFFALO Lf pf /@ASHTABULA tf % PHILADELPHIA i ts LAND BAL TIMORE of * This ins he Bt ent it lime to Lose~Deadline For Entry in Lawrence ccannnadibemeniammarmmnne Vi-IiciAL PRC LigsARY ‘y i Che Dail NH Mews NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL, XII, No. 173 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1952 Ls : PRICE FIVE CENTS a *, vig %, ri vast peninsula, 450,000 square miles Black Area — ORE BODY Crossed Lines — RAILV/ A | Two Killed, Two Injure ‘In Tragic Car Acciden Bishop Gibson, Wife Dead; - Daughter, Friend in Hospital In one of the most tragic automobile accidents Lightning Bolt Knocks Out Vancouver Transit System VANCOUVER @ ransit GNNOaAd A lightning bolt last night knocked out stem for an hour Re atm | in the history of Prince Ru Huncreds of trolley buses and street cars were lined up for of blocks throughout the downtown district. Gas buses were pre nto service on affected lines The breakdown was caused by a lightning bolt which ‘truck a i@arby Ruskin, Domestic power was core sed | Way. | The bishop's daughter, Eileen, } 41-year-old home ecCnomics| teacher at Courtenay, B.C., and) Rev. S. C. Deacon, retired mis-| Sionary from South America, were injured The group were enroute. to the} Bishop's summer home—“Guis-| eley”—at Kitwanga, between) Terrace and Hazelton. They left) their home here shortly before noon in Miss Gibson’s car Mr. Deacon arrived here from Ocean Falls yesterday and plan- ned to spend a few days at the camp before proceeding to Fort power pole at not affected Fishermen Tie-Up Ends |71-year-old Anglican Bishop of Caledonia, and his | wife were killed this morning on the Skeena High- | interest |where he was studying when a . ” PROVINCIAL LIBR py Te TA Ts VICTORIA, B.C pert, Rt. Rev. J. B. Gibson, ing that iime, ne wox an active in church work and entered the Church Missionary Society preparatory college at Blackheath, London, England, call came for men to carry out missionary work in Saskatche- wan. In response to that call, the young man came to Canada, ar- riving in Saskatchewan in 1906. The following year he entered |Emmanuel College, then at |Prince Albert, from which he |graduated in theology in 1910, UT Iron for Canada andthe United States will come from he Labrador-Ungava region Begin Fishin for the sockeye grounds as tie-up ends at 6 p.m. tod Following heavy voting of the} United Fishermen and. Allied Workers Union members yester- | day, a two-third majority favor- | about one-eighth found comprising : opened up as great mineral treasures, especially iron ore being built from the vicinity of Burnt Creek to Seven Islands, Quebec, ed return to fishing, Union Sec-| retary Homer Stevens said here} today | In Prince Rupert, however, 474| fishermen who voted favored by | a Slight majority to go on strike. | Voting took place on a coast jmendation by the strike com- ; mittee that fishermen do not go} ron Strike " i are (CP PHOTO) executive Union, Brotherhood Members The west coast salmon fishing fleet is heading St. John, He was replaced re- | being ordained a minister the cently at the Anglican parish in |54™M€ year. ; ; FIRST AT PERDUE Ocean Falls by Rev. D.C. O Con-| : jnell, who just arrived from Ire-| Bishop Gibson’s first parish land jwas St. Cuthbert’s at Perdue, : ‘ : |Sask., where he remained until 7 rds ie ic The accident occurred just, , ( ad the four-day price dispute sae Waa Seen Geen their | May. it or he was ae new model English car is re-| reyes on Page Two) ay. ——|ported to have sideswiped a| 726 sitet strike. |truck and veered off the high- | Eastern US In Prince Rupert, 220 voted|Way down a 20-foot embankment Bishop and Mrs. Gibson were | May Buy g at 6 p.m. DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 More Damage By New Jolts At Tahachapi TEHACHAPI, Calif. (CP)—Con- tinuing heavy aftershocks of the great Tehachapi earthquake injured another 27 persons in this devastated community. New jolts also hit hard at nearby Arvin. now aimost as badly damaged as Tehachapi. Several severe tremors yester- day collapsed fronts of previ- ousiy-cracked buildings in both towns. Scientists said the first giant upheaval, which caused 12 deaths and an estimated $100,- 000,000 damage in southern California, was caused by the earth slipping along more than 25 miles of a Bear Mountain fault. Of Pipeline Completed EDMONTON (CP) — Canadian Bechtel Ltd. Wednesday report- ed 56 miles of high-test pipe has been laid so far on the 720- mile Trans-Mountain Oil pipe- line between Edmonton and Vancouver. Officials of the company, agent far the owner corpora- tion, said that construction had suffered a setback because of the United States steel strike. But indicatioris were that three work crews in interior British Columbia would be able to con- tinue operating into September, when it was hoped steel will be rolling again, The fourth pipeline spread, scheduled to start July 1 at not to strike; 251 voted in fa-| into a wooded area. vor of striking. Be In the meantime, one of the|Tiding in the rear seat of the| bigg@st runs of sockeye in name four-door sedan and are believed | years is reported to be heading|to have been killed almost im-; BC Lumber up to their spawning grounds. | mediately. ‘ : i Operators said here they were| Miss Gibson, who just arrived | “haypy” with the end of the | home last week from Vancouver tie-up. | wites her mother, and Mr. Dea- “All we want is to can fish,’ | con were pinned in the front and |ish Columbia lumber, salt one operator. were released by RCMP why Sped. This. was predieted Wednes- VANCOUVER (€P) — Eastern United States expect to receive an “inereased volume” of Brit- Burnaby, has been postponed until the steel strike is over and the entire situation can be re-examined. Contracts are expected to be awarded in the next few days for construction of pump sta- ‘tions at Edmonton and at Kam- “The believes it is| » Today will also mark the first | to the scene. The auto ended up day by a B.C. lumber executive very unfortunate” that there was|time seiners are going to fish| 0M its side. The truck driver Was|when he amnounced that 20,- a Split in the union and with the|this year. The seining season|0t hurt. — : : } 000,000 feet 6f strikebound tim- Native Brotherhood of B.C., said officially opened July 19, which |. Police said Miss Gibson, al- per has been sold to eastern Mr. Stevens, “and that the unian | was the deadline for voting which | though stunned, was able to walk | American interests. Timber will loops and Marlboro, in B.C. Iroquois Sees ») Box Derby Set For Noon Tomorrow vill be: year-—there were six of them tered the 1952 race ap Box may still enter if their cars are .Each boy will be sponsored! members had to vote under such | Day. That's intact and Doug Frizzell, owner Of | circumstances But time is running short Frizzel] Motors Limited, General’ «Going back to fishing means| Deadline for entries to be tion to; made at The Daily News office is noon tomorrow Only one boy-——Billy Watmough | who raced last year, has en- Motors representative here, has'¢that the members have accepted assigned one of his staff to ad-! the jatest price offer of the com- vise any of the boys wishing) panies, but the executive is. still | assistance convinced the companies could Sponsors also. wit lend | have paid last year’s prices.” guiding hand, so get your entries; yeanwhile, Chief William Scow in quickly. Remember the boys! proadcast a message at 10 a.m must build their own cars. The) toqay to members of the Native wheels and axles will be pur-| Brotherhood to begin fishing at chased for entrants by the spon- | ¢ p.m st ran Offers Formula raced la sor lAmive> wit = After your entry is received, NATIVES FISH : an official rule book may be ob The Brotherhood had voted 85 e e 00 $ rl e tained from Frizzell Motors,| Per cent in favor of accepting which with Trades and Labor|the latest company offer when Council and The Daily News are they voted in conjunction with sponsoring the derby. UFAWU members last Saturday ; : : : In view of this ,the natives No Agreement Reached A list of entrants and their 26 with a disclosure that “push-| ‘The police were notified by a| the afternoon. The air over the] | By The Canadian Press sponsors will be published on made a sé pat ite agreement with | ers” were selling or giving nar | taxi driven en route here from | Province is drying poet how- ANCOUVER. — Chief Justice Gordon Sloan) Saturday the canners , _, cotics to juveniles. __ |Port Edward. He contacted po-|ever, and by late afternoon | '~ a : Meanwhile, the chairman of| Price the fishermen now will, At the same time, Patricia} lice causéd the tie-up. away from the car after being|/be shipped by sea when the Gatch ee a extricated. Mr. Deacon, who is) International Woodworkers of repor ted to have received a | America strike ends, he said. p li G | broken collarbone and severe cuts} The transaction .marks the to his face, was carried up the) start “of increased movement to embankment, |the United States,” the execu- Hospital authorities reported | tive added. Seven More both “resting quietly.” | He said it would not make up The truck was enroute to Port) for lost overseas markets but Edward, It was a three-ton truck | “not much B.C. waterborne lum- and was hauling five tons of sand| ber has been going to the U.S.” to Nelson Brothers Fisheries} from the city. Both vehicles were going in} om WEATHER — the same direction. | persons—five men and two! Driver of the truck attempted} Synopsis women—in their unrelenting/to right the automobile after | It will be cloudy throughout crackdown on Vancouver's un-|he clambered down the em-|the province today and there derworld narcotics traffic. |bankment but was unable to| Will’ be showers and thunder- The crackdown started June! move it until RCMP arrived. |storms in the interior during On Drugs VANCOUVER .(CP)—RCMP on Wednesday arrested seven more over his radio-telephone| sunny periods will occur along | | Action in War TOKYO (€P)—The Canadian destroyer Iroquois today par- ticipated in an air-sea attack on the west coast of North Korea. The Iroquois battered troop and artillery positions on Gojin peninsula, with British planes working as spotters. Attack was part of a concen- trated offensive by carrier-based aircraft on Communist power- plants on both east and west coasts of North Korea. the derby committee, Granby} be paid is 25 cents for sockeye | Badstad, a 19-year-old pregnant | and they were on (Red) Watmough, has gone on| (ast year’s price); 13 cents for) seamstress, was committed for| within a few minutes. a two-week vacation and John|Cohee, eight cents for pinks and) trial on a charge of selling a| FORMER RECTOR Dyck has taken over during his| five cents for chums a settlement formula which would ing woodworkers a general increase the scene|the coast. Tomorrow there will! | — /be less cloud in all regions and| | jtemperatures will be slightly | ° charges of false pretences. hour 1 | Substance represented as a drug} Bishop Gibson came to St.| higher. Regional forecasts valid) ‘ , ‘ 7 D d . absence | UNWISE TO STRIKE to a juvenile. coal = = o Andrew’s Cathedral! _ ae te re ' Announcec fore going, Mr. Watmough| “We thought it was unwise to| person committed for trial on} tor in 1929, was appointed dean : © reported ea m aoa aseemeaaaaaal to have{recommend a strike at this| such charge. the following year and on June! Cloudy today and Friday with Onan ae /, Wi k some building material delivered | time,” said Mr. Stevens, when) seven were arrested, includ-|13, 1945, was elected Bishop of|sunny periods both afternoons. |’ of the 39- Plane rec to his home and Mr. Dyck will|he said his recommendation to|ing a 22-year-old waitress,| Caledonia. He was consecrated|Not much change in tempera-| LAC DU BONNET, Man Al} advise boys who‘ want or need| union members called to 4) charged with illegal possession|on August 5 of the same year | ure. Light winds except north- — the 1952] ven men aboard a Manitoba | parts or material ; |meeting here all yesterday af-|of drugs. | Born at Armagh, Northern; west 20 in exposed areas. Low ied for an- — men groan dea plane But, boys should look around|ternoon was not to vote for a | Ireland, in 1881, He received his|tonight and high tomorrow at | ine a acd ae " mi 4 WwW sdnesday their own yards or attics for | strike education in the National School| Port Hardy, Prince Rupert and. ling » higher |e 90 ong helicopters | items needed. Total cost of the| “But the recommendation was h d at Moy, County Tyrone, Ireland.|Sandspit 52 and 62. untenance ot] eee at Elan a the plane’s | Car mustn't exceed $10, exclusive| made with reluctange. It was Man C arge Leaving school, he was ap-| —--______— f-living bo-| eased down gba ; floating of the wheels and axles made due to the obvious split/| prenticed to the drapery busi- EXPLORED NS. a an ae rin of Wi ni eg Remember deadline for entries | between the union and the Na-| On Parole ness in Portadown in the centre} Samuel de Champlain explored bom a gestae a é fter “the | is noon tomorrow tive Brotherhood. Certain groups | 7 of Ireland’s linen trade, where| the Annapolis basin of Nova Sco- posed three addi- ‘s or a ha ce radio | - among our own union also were J | he remained eight vears. Dur-'tia in 1704, Dor oS canis tian, the desolate spot FIRST OVER opposed to striking.” umps Bai - : cir por Dy ——— here the plane had stumbled} Norsemen visited North Am-| Of all fishermen who voted ° IMENG tate fog roomed trees Monday | erica four centuries before white tees on the recommenda - VANCOUVER (P)—Harry Mc- Two Injure ras. Ictims t bury. Bc. dis. |and crashed umbus arrived. tion, 1038 voted not to strike; Millan, 35-year-old machinist : the Interne: (oo oe ye . © .:-| ttectimesiteamaaant, ” Wedhaantey Await H. d Rescue Bid ee — | life imprisonment, Wednesday t "5 Two Canadians Qualify in Olympics x2 Fei. | WON" azeren Forest Tndus- Ltd itors bargaining Said the will be given r yn n during nego- berators proposed the basic ware ‘9% per hour to vin ‘ncorporation of “ving bonus in the was rejected by present latives MIDES— ) te 'v, July 25, 1952 Sandard Time) 3:02 19.4 feet 19:4] 19.0 feet 9:23 3.4 feet 39 6.5 feet } HELSINKI Jim Lavery of | Calgary, qualified today for the | 400-metre Olympic semi-finals | by placing second in a second- | round heat, Heat winner in the | preliminary heats, Lavery ran second to Arthur Wint, Jamaica, | in the next heat. Three in each | heat qualify. | | Bill Parnell, North Vancouver, | qualified in preliminary heat of | | 1,500-metre run. He placed third | —last qualifying spot. His time | 3:53.4. Heat was won by Olow| Amberg, Sweden, 3:51.0. * ; Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia’s great distance runner, won the} 5,000-metre run in record time | 14:15.4. His record was the 16th | | Olympie record broken so far in NELSON (—A tiny plane to- When—or if—he is arrested,| gay threaded its way through the the 1952 games |Hunty of Australia, who set the | In 400+metre, Doug Clement,| world record of 10.8 seconds in he will automatically be return- towering peaks of the Rockies ed to prison to serve the rest to make a hazardous attempt at Vancouver, failed to qualify,| women’s 80-metre hurdles in the|of his life sentence, police said. rescuing two seriously injured placing fifth. semi-final yesterday, won the| McMillan was sentenced to life| ¢rash victims from a lakeshore Shirley Strickland, De La!championship today in 10.5. imprisonment in 1939. 7,000 feet above sea level. A light plane with three per- sons aboard crashed into or near Lake Magog in Mt. Assiniboine Park on the B.C.-Alberta border yesterday. The pilot apparently escaped unhurt but his two passefigers were seriously injur- ed. The pilot made his way to a lonely forest ranger station near the lake and a call for help went out over the Forest Ser- vice’s radio network. Identity of pilot and passen- gers was not immediately known On a charge of manslaughter following the death of a Van- couver cafe owner Woo Dack, McMillan appeared in _ police ;court last week to face charges of passingeworthless cheques. He was remanded and allowed out on $1500 bail. 15 Per Cent of All Voters Plumped in B.C. Election VICTORIA Roughly 15 per cent of ‘ballots cast in British Columbia’s general election plumped for one candidate or was marked with less than the allowed number of choices. Tables in Chief Electoral Officer Fred Hurley’s office here show 122,276 of 765,216 valid ballots cast were plumped or exhausted. CCF supporters were the biggest plumpers, the record shows. © STEEL STRIKE SETTLED WASHINGTON — Steel strike was settled at White House late today. President Truman an- nounced settlement but did not give details of terms. Coast Ships Collide in Dense Fog VANCOUVER (CP)—-The 1200- ton coastal steamer Catala is in drydock here after colliding with an American freighter in a peasoup fog in Johnstone Straits near Sayward Tuesday night. ; The bow of the Union Steam- ship vessel was damaged and her scheduled sailing from Van- couver last night cancelled. BEAUTY QUEEN — Brunette charm of Thelma Brewis, 20, accented by white bathing suit as she poses at the beach, won her the tithe of Miss Toronto of 1952 over 60 contestants at the annual police games. It was her fourth try for the title and she was sure she didn’t have a chance this year. (CP Photo),