42 CABS pisPATCHED _ TAR ApIO nubled | in VER (CP)—The president of thel fransmission Company—Frank Mc-| val gas discoveries in the Peace ively ju tural Gas sti fy Discoveries Peace River a und the northwest United States.” urea dur nths have iid here reniogtiat »nclude reserve tion of Peace and nal on the Commis are uivel there ey ve poard 1 Mr hi an oil Rive: Mountain construc- Vancou- ire possible iid Peace eum has amount pyesident o an 700-mile ‘0.000 Dar- 75,000 NT a i Mari cted to, They +,.000,000 chmaker 1s For urder Que- ‘ee r case of to walk Ken in @ i to the Bordeaux Dec eal vith 19, id 99 Nas mid { Ait clured Albert vent to 1951 for to have ident Pl; eter: E—This sway-backed oddity is called the “camel * OF the district three miles from Milton, Ont., ‘Ying In the tree, a tourist attraction, are three- Ware of Rockwood and Mrs. Alice Duby, Acton, Gibson Inquest A Adjourned coronet ba re late into the 's jury yesterday to inquire deaths of the J. B. Gibson, Bishop of Cale- donia, and his wife, and journed after viewing the bod- 1e8 Bishop Gibson's Eileen, and a 67-year-old re- tired missionary, Rev. C Deacon, who were injured in the car accident yesterday that claimed the lives of Miss Gib-| son's pital RCMP said no charges have been laid in connection with the mishap The small which the four were riding reported to have sideswiped a truck, owned by Whalen’s Cart- age Limited, parents, are still in hos- English car in an embankment route tion to Kitwanga Name of the truck driver has not been released Mr. Deacon suffered a frac- tured arm, a fractured pelvis, several broken ribs and numer- ous bruises and cuts around the face Hospital authorities report his condition “fair.” Miss Gibson suffered several bruises and cuts and shock. Her condition is “good.” Bishop and Mrs. Gibson are believed to have died almost ime mediately after the crash. They were riding in the back seat of Lhe car - New re “ Agreement With Japan (CP)... Japanese air lines will be entitled to fly to Honolulu, San Francisco and to points beyond under the draft of a Japanese-United States air agreement concluded here Wed nesday But it musp Still be approved by the United States govern ment and by the Japanese cabi net and legislature Agreement also TOKYO provides for Japan to operate services by way in Canada, Japan of intermediate North Pacific Seattle and Okinawa the to to points and from (CP PHOTO) pipeline through} convened | Rt. Rev.} ad-| daughter, | 8.) ‘8 just past Midland | Pines and then careened down | They were en| for a vaca-| Che Dari A etus NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL wid, No, 174 Voting Begins At Democrat railway line from Seven Islanc ment project } docks The locomotives at Seven Islands during been used to transport everything from buns to bulldozers into the far-north iron-ore develop- PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1952 : “vn * MODERN TRAVEL—Modern diesel-electric locomotives will go north into Labrador- Ungava as the is, Que., to Knob Lake is built Until now the airplane, inset, has are just part of the 200,000 tons of freight which will cross the the summer, Story, more photos on Page 6 (CP PHOTO) 2) Contaaetlen hitseabe Ends US. Steel Strike Ly The Cenadian Press WASHINGTON— President Truman Thursday dramatically | signalled the end of the 53-day | steel strike Flanked by CIO President |Philip Murray and _ President | Benjamin Fairless of U.S. Steel, Truman announced. an agree- ment had been reached after day-long talks at the White House. The strike had made idle nearly 2,000,000 workers and cut deep into defence production | Authoritative informants said the agreement calis for a two- | year contract, with little more than 21 cents an hour in wage hikes and a fringe of benefits plus a modified union shop Union originally asked a total of slightly more than 26 cents an hour higher pay, and full compulsory union membership Present pay averages just under $2 an hour Informants said the section on the sticky union shop issue, a big stumbling block in the past to efforts to settle the strike, exempts all present employes who are not members of the union from being compelled to take out a union card Man Charged With Murder | charged with murder in connec- ition with the death of his wife, | Julian, at their Pendleton Bay cabin last Tuesday ROMP here said a coroner's! ljury at Burns Lake, 28 miles, ‘ |south of the cabin, returned an i |open verdict |} Lolly is belng held in jail at | Burns Lake, following his release ; | from hespital where he was | | treated for a bullet wound in the | \ head Mrs. Lolly, | Babine Indian, in her cabin with a bullet wound 22-year-old i |in her head. ‘MK-Worker Killed At Kemano Bay Herbert Skorzitaa, 27-year-old worker on the Aluminum Com- pany of Canada project at Ke- mano, died yesterday shortly after he got his leg caught in a wire hoist. - He was the second person to | mest sudden death at the site | within a week. His mother lives in Poland, | A Chilliwack man, Raymond \A. Angus, 29, is presumed to have drowned last Sunday when! the truck he was driving car- eened off the road into the Ke-| His body has not) mano River. been recovered Duncan James Lolly has been| Fort | was found dead) Loggers Vote Sunda yon Justice Sloan's Formula VANCOUVER (CP)—The Sloan formula” will be voted on Sunday by striking mem- bers of the International Woodworkers of America, it was announced Thursday at union headquarters. Meetings will be held in vari- ous coast centres where the or rejection by next Monday proposal will be discussed and | noon.” In explaining: the failure to reach a settlement, Chief Justice Sloan said: “Difficulty of the situation is founded upon a firmly held | conviction of the operators*that j the present market recession, both in demand prices for their | products, will continue to be- come progressively worse dur- ing the year—a view which the submitted to a membership vote. The chief justice yesterday offered a proposal for strike! settlement which would give 32,- 000 woodworkers a general in- crease of 5% cents an hour. Chief Justice Sloan announced he had been unable to get an} “agreed settlement” during his mediate meetings with industry and union negotiating commit-/| union resolutely refuses to ac- | tee | cept. The industry has been idle it is therefore impossible for since June 15 when the IWA) me to negotiate successfully in- | called a strike to back pay in-|creased wage demands when crease demands where is such a wide and strong The chief justice reported! divergence of opinion as to the nothing can be gained by con-| economic future of the indus- ae mediation proceedings.” try.” He handed operators and un- wre jion representatives a statement THE TIDES yesterday outlining “what I be- Saturday, July 26. 1952 lieve a fair settlement of their High 3:35 18.7 feet dispute.” 16:13 18.7 feet ‘IT have requested both sides! Low 9:53 4.3 feet to inform me of their acceptance 22:16 6.6 feet BULLETINS Miss Truman Sports a Ring PARIS (CP)—Margaret Truman met the press today with a diamond on her third finger, left hand, but she hastily denied it was an engagement ring. “There's no news in that department,’ she told newspapermen. She got the ring for college graduation. | * x = ‘Brazil Defeats Canadians HELSINKI! — Brazil defeated Canada 57-55 today in Olympic basketball tournament. In the 200-metre semi-final Luella Law finished sixth and Eleanor McKenzie fifth and both were eliminated. x * = French Fight in Korea SEOUL (CP)—French infantrymen today hurled back a 500-man Chinese Communist drive on T-Bone Hill in a bloody opening to the 26th month of the Korean war. Heavy losses were inflicted in the pre-dawn hand to hand combat. |identified with | services “settlement ; partment doctors are enroute to | Sechelt, 30 miles north of Van- PRICE FIVE CENTS ~~ PROVINCIAL Lier Vict ‘fT MUNSAN still unbroken Despite a United Nations offer to return an additional | | Truce Talks ‘Fruitless’ As- News _ Blackout lifted After 18 Talks Three weeks of news today from the Korean armistice talks, showing the deadlock over prisoner exc hange—the final issue blocking the truce— blackout was lifted 13,000 captives to the Communists, 18 off-the-record meetings 1 since July 4 proved “completely fruitless,” said Maj.-Gen. | Harrison, jr. | Memorial Service Sunday For Leading Anglican Church Pair A memorial service will be! held Sunday—likely in the af- ternoon—in St. Andrew’s Cathe- dral for the late Bishop and Mrs. J. B. Gibson, who were kill- ed in a car accident yesterday. Arrangements for funeral, expected to be held early next week, will be announced. : The Prince Rupert Ministerial Association, which met early to- day under chairmanship of Dr. E. A. Wright, expressed its deep Sympathy in the tragic deaths. The association wished to he the memorial and decided to give leadership in financial subserip- tions to a central fund to be used for some charitable or re- ligious purpose instead of floral tributes. The Rev. Canon Basil Prockter will hold the memorial service, time to be announced tomorrow. Injured Pair Recover at Tourist Site BANFF, Alberta (—Two wom- en tourists from California are recovering in hospital here from injuries suffered in a plane crash Wednesday. The women, taken a trail ride to Mount Assiniboine Park and, apparently | feeling unequal to the 40-mile} ride back.on horseback, they | hired Al Gaetz of Banff to fly | them in. Gaetz suffered minor injuries. Iran Police Warn The plane crashed on take-off. | 40 miles northwest of Banff on Laura Randell of | | Inglewood, Calif., and Mrs. Susan | Browler of San Francisco, had | OF Red Tactics — TEHRAN ())—-Premier Mossa- | | degh’s new National Police Chief | \ ware Iranians last night that | |Communists are attempting to! | use nationalistic outbreaks which | |drove former Premier Amhed Qavam from power, to further “sinister” Red aims. Speaking in a country-wide radio broadcast, Police Chief Kazam Sheibani indicated mem- bers of the outlawed Tuder (Communist) party infiltrated Nationalist organizations. Dysentry In Girl Camp @ —Health de-| VANCOUVER couver, to investigate an out- break of communicable bacterial dysentery in a Girl Guides camp. A spokesman at the Provincial | health department laboratory here said 22 girls have been brought to Vancouver under quarantine in a bus. — WEATHER — Synopsis A weak high pressure area moving through southern Brit- ish Columbia will bring sunny weather to that part of the prov- ince today and tomorrow. Only along the outer coast will there be appreciable amounts. of cloud. Moist air however will cause varying amounts of cloud in centre British Columbia while the north will be cool and show- ery. : Forecast Cloudy today and Saturday with brief sunny periods in the afternoons. A_ little warmer. Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy (51 and 64, Sandspit 52 and 65, land Prince Rupert 52 and 64 | ) i HEADS RED CROSS — Andre Francoise-Poncet, French am- bassador to West Germany, holds the highest title in the Red Cross organization—chair- Se eeeeiee ORMES... “DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Convention Stevenson ‘Likely Candidate CHICAGO (CP)—Calm veteran politicians tri- umphed over’ endurance tests, intra-party . revolt and even a small fire threat today and brought the Democratic party to the brink of its decision on.the presidential candi- | date Through more than 14 hours of oratory, polling and at times bitter argument, the national convention got 11 candidates up to voting line and adjourned at 2 a.m. for nine hours. CHICAGO (CP) — Voting by delegates has started at the National Democratic conven- tion here and first reports put Governor Adlai Stevenson, of Illinois, in the lead. Others following closely are Kefauver, Russell, Herriman. All hectic and wearying events in the 14-hour non-stop pro- cedure pointed more and more to the ultimate nomination of 52-year-old Governor Adlai Stevenson, Illinois. Senator John Sparkman, Al- abama, seemed the likely choice of rinning-mate if the Steven- man of the Standing Commis- sion of the International Red Cross Conference. He flew from Paris to attend the In- ternational Red Cross confer- ence at Toronto. (CP Photo) son boom carries through. With the start of balloting only a few hours away, Asso- ciated Press tabulation shows first ballot standings was Ke- fauver 272%, Stevenson ‘ 215, Senator Richard - Russell of RUSSIAN DELEGATE — B. M. Zonoy is leader of the Russian delegation to the International Red Cross conference in Toronto. (CP Photo) . Assassins Death Term Reduced WASHINGTON (AP) — Oscar Collazo, Puerto Rican who took part in the attempted assassi- nation'of President Truman on November 1, 1950, in which a White House policeman was killed, will spent the rest of his life in jail. Collazo had been slated to die in the electric chair on August 1. A White House announcement said President Truman com- muted the death sentence ot life imprisonment. SNARLING INVADERS KYUQUOT, B.C. CP— In the last. two months Mrs. Pat Smith of this Vancouver Island..com- munity has shot and killed two | large cougars invading her yard. One killed two of her dogs before being dispatched. Georgia 207, 107%, others 24744, uncommitted ° 179. (Needed to nominate 61544.) Kefauver and Harriman took a 615 to 529 licking in efforts to prevent the 28-vote Virginia delegation from balloting on the presidential and vice-presiden- tial nominees. Virginians had refused to sub- scribe fully to the new loyalty pledge put across by the Ke- fauver-Harrison combine. ., In the two-hour wrangle that followed this test vote, Repre- |sentative John Massachisetts;~ filling or convention chairman Sam Ray- burn, gavelled South Carolina and Louisiana delegations back on the roll call from which they had been stricken when they 1efused to take the loyalty pledge. Net result was to leave three delegations in position to cast a total of 64 convention votes for the south’s champion, Sena- tor Richard B. Russell. An unscheduled bit of excite- ment came when a newspaper caught fire on the convention hall floor. It was quickly put out. Fire Commissioner Anthony J Mullaney said he thought the blaze may have been set delib- erately in an effort to force adjournment of proceedings. Earlier in the day word had come to party leaders from the White House that President Tru- man prefers Stevenson. Truman is scheduled to arrive later in the day to present a new party nominee to the convention tonight if the meeting can get back on schedule. Paraplegic Held On Drug Count VANCOUVER (P)—Police bat- tered down the door of a room in a skidroad hotel last night to arrest a fourth person in their widening net to clean up the narcotics racket here. Ship Owners, Officers Settle Wage Dispute; Increase Granted VANCOUVER ()—Settlement of the six month wage dispute between 300 ships officers and four coast steamship companies was announced Thursday night. Announcement was made by the National Association of Marine Engineers and the Canadian Merchant Service Guild on one hand and four companies on other—Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Union Steamships and Frank Waterhouse and Co. Ltd. Masters, mates and engineers will receive pay increases ranging from $15 to $22 a month and a 7% per cent cost of living bonus increase. The new sas is retroactive to March 1.