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It was he who finally} comeback since recovering from | NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL, XLI, No. 181 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1952 MN etvs Wire mimes TCTOR j TEN CENTS (including comic section) ROVINCIAL LIBRARY, j mala 118 TA, B. C. * ORMES DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 ig L CREDIT FORMS NEW B.C GOV'T States Wins Olympic ™ HISTORIC MEETING—After two years’ efforts Societies the sie oe. as the were by first of a series of informal meetings leaders of the League of Red Cross held with North Korean Red Cross overnment officials on the question of Red Cross relief from abroad being sent to the civilian population of Communist North Korea. The meeting was held in Toronto as part , of International Red Cross conference. Attending the informal meeting are, left to right: Kim Min San, North Korean Red Cross and government delegation chief: Emil Sandstrom of Sweden, chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies; Count Bonabes de Rouge of France, retary-general of the Kim Pai Joon and Ki Sek Pok, both of North Korea. (CP) Preacher Weakens, Brooks Lose While Parnell Wins For Bosox NEW YORK (CP)-The Preach-; lost the ball game aftér seven| bursitis, scattered eight hits as r and Mel Parnell gave major straight victories as Chicago’s| Boston beat Detroit Tigers 3-1. vase ball leaguers another taste | Bob Rush whipped Dodgers 6-1.. Jn other f “hot” pitching last night, but) He was trailing 3-1 when yank-| “ me of themr lost his stuff led in the fifth inning. as Pe Preacher Roe hurls for Brodk- | Dodgers of the National the league; Parnell, blazing along on 4led Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 Gala Swim Show Opens Sunday at McClymont — *"sis.hes Plans were completed at a Park Board meeting} it was Parnell’s fourth deci- last night for the first annual swimming gala at the| 0" Since he rejoined his squad Gyro pool beginning at 2 p.m, tomorrow. | 8-6. There will be swimming and )~ ane ager | diving competitions for children park work done in the city this | between the ages of six and 17) year, it was pointed out that lack} and Mrs. Laila Svendsen, noted Danish aquatic star, will give a of funds may force the board to) d ily but suspend some development eee a ak demonstration of freestyle anc : : jout by left fielder Hoot Evers. backstroke | Commissioners agreed they | Loser Bill Wight gave up nine To make it a real treat the | Were not (Qualified to state) ni. in taking his fifth defeat Park Board will give away ice whether proper machinery W88| te has won six. cream and soda pop to all the/ being used tor clearing ground children at Plaza Park, Sixth and Plaza, _ Other scores: Besides members of the park |@%d decided to suspend opera-| wy sajem 3. Wenatchee 10: bourd, Mrs. Svendsen will be| tions until the board recelves|..5_ city 6 Yakima: 2; Vancou- assisted by Mrs. Lise Norgaard, | Professional advice. sy 6, Spokane S Wolsrs 4 supervisor of the children’s pool| Bulldozing has been going On| Lewiston 7. at McClymont Park, and Fred | at the park for the past week, Jones, secretary-manager of the | preparing ground for develop-| PCL—San Diego 6, Sacra- |ment of a children’s playground,|mento 0; Oakland 1, Los An- Commissioners Murray and Civie Centre Scott McLaren, secretary of the Gyro Club, was invited by| Balagno and chairman Pat For- the board to attend the meet with|iman were appointed to meet members of the club with Mayor Harold Whalen, pos- LACK OF FUNDS sibly Monday, to discuss park During a lengthy discussion on ' matters BULLETINS General Strike in Belgium cisco 8; Seattle 8, Portland 9. Prince Ruper Prime Mimister of Canad in Prince Rupert next month which begins late this month by special plane and will addr "eee nd elementary Prin is the new nd also min- , forests Sipe W. D. Black of I provincial unicipal affairs iardi, Kam- id minister of tban Police il Plot to ‘erthrow Gov't ice iY today eth broken a plot ; ® Cuban govern- inate President Batista, ‘dent Carlos Prio Ousted by Batista last March ) wa COUD dat re- | LIEGE, Belgium (CP)—Belgium’s Federation of | Labor today called a 24-hour generol strike in | protest against the country’s two-year military service. General work stoppage is to begin Aug. 9. * “ announced E. T, Applewhaite The Prime Minister will meeting by special ‘train, then luncheon meeting Monday. the late William Lyon Macken: American League; beat league~leading New York Yank* But in the American League,| pes 2-1, Cleveland Indians down- |\delphia Phillies 10-5, Cincinnati’ |Reds blanked Boston Braves 2-0 a month ago. His record now is Tigers muffed their big scor- ing chance in the sixth inning when big Walt Dropo fell down {rounding third. He should have thrown geles 0; Hollywood 2, San Fran- Basketball | HELSINKI (CP) —In point score United States won honors over Russia today 558 against Russia’s 52912. No chance for Russia to overcome this lead regardless of tonight's boxing | finals. HELSINKI (© —United Olympic basketball feated the stubborn bali-free2- | ing Russian team 36-25 today to retain its Olympic title. Russia! was second in the tournament’ standing | United States passed Russia lin the battle for unofficial Olym- pic team point championship today with 536 points to 528% for Russia | Still to come are the finals in the women’s diving where the Americans are favored, ten box- ing finals with Americans in- volved in five amd Russians in two, and two equestrian events. The men’s 1500-metre free- style swim was won by Fod Kono of U.S., which put Ameri- eans ahead T S States | | Truce Called In Quebec Prison Riot MONTREAL (©-—A tense, un- easy truce ruled over riot-torn Bordeaux jail today after police quelled a two-hour riot, with guns and tear gas. and Washington Senators out- | Scored Chicago White Sox 3-1. | NATIONAL | In the National League, St {Louis Cardinals walloped Phila- At least 12 convicts were in- | jured in the melee, the second riot at Bordeaux since May. A police offiicial denied a pub- lished report that one of two men hit by police bullets died. Rioting against prison food, an estimated 800 convicts broke out of cell blocks last night, set with a clashed 200 police jin courtyard, Police, using tear gas bombs} and firing pistols over the heads | ‘of the rioters, drove them back} into cell blocks but they smashed the main locks and spilled back |into the yard to yell and taunt police | Police, aware that broken | logks made it impossible to keep ithe convicts behind doors for | the night stood by and allowed ‘them to blow off steam Premier of Canada Visits t Next Month a, Louis St. Laurent, will arrive on his tour of British Columbia Mr. St. Laurent will arrive here Sept. 7 from Powell River ess a public meeting that night, , Liberal MP for Skeena, today leave for Smithers after the enplane for Prince George for a Last Canadian prime minister to visit Prince Rupert was zte King, in the early 30's. team de-!|- | Steele, 23, suspected burglar 17 fires about the prison and | KILLER AND VICTIM—Frank | and drug addict, shot and killed his 19-year-old _ girl friend, Betty Weber in a smail Vancouver apartment then put a bullet into his brain appear in court with three other persons on charges of stealing $2,800 worth.of clothes from a factory. Earlier Steele had wounded Betty’s father, Harry, 52, in the leg and kid- napped the girl. Police said he slew the giri to prevent her from testifying in court. This photo was taken a few months ago by a street photographer. (CP Photo) Three Year Sentence For Purse Snatch VANCOUVER.—Two men who choked, beat and robbed a Van- couver housewife early Friday and were captured seconds later bloody batthe in the main prison} by an off duty police officer at- tracted by her screams, were on their way to penitentiary for three years 10 hours after the assault. Walter Hiseit, 24, and Ray- mond Johnson, 20, pleaded guilty to a purse snatching assault of Mrs. B. J. Woods. The woman’s purs¢ contained $57. The hoodlums refused to say anything in their own defence and only smiled when the sen- tence was passed—one_of the heaviest levied in recent years for this type of offence. — WEATHER — Synopsis The North Pacific high pres- sure area has edged over into British Columbia once more and a sunny week-end is expected in all areas. Forecast A few clouds today and Sun- day. A little warmer. Winds westerly 20 exposed areas today, otherwise light. Low tonight and high Sunday, at Port Hardy 49 and 68, Sandspit 52 and 66, Prince Rupert 54 and 70. Teen-Agers Rescued KETCHIKAN “-— Seven teen-age boys were rescued from harbor here this morning when a Queen Charlotte Air Lines plane sighted the boys in the water. Boat was capsized. *. & Explosion Rocks Montreal MONTREAL (CP)—A mysterious blast or ex- plosion shook the widely-separated sections of Montreal today but an hour later there was still no explanation as to what happened. Police said they could find no trace of damage or injury and suggested possibility of an underground explosion. VANCOUVER @—British Co 1 $15,000,000 worth of the multi with Great Britain, Exporters said the recent 45 day woodworkers strike ha caused a shortage of shippin and makes it impossible to com plete shipment of 175,000,00 ® ‘ lumbia lumber exporters learned Friday they stand to lose up to line! 5) g 0 | the, lu schedule in Sune and July. board feet of - 600,000,000-foot eae by the Sept. 15 dead- They have received warnings million dollar lumber contract|from Britain that orders for | ped. 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 feet will | probably be ‘cancelled because feet is worth almost $10,000,000 per. was not shipped on and the 45,000,000 feet is worth jabout $5,000,000. It is being sold Britain next Tuesday or Wed-| to the British at about $35 above nesday is expected to reject ex- | the current world price : U. K. Likely Reject Deadline Extension for B. C. Lumber; Exporters May Lose Millions porters’ requests that the dead- {tine be extended. That means | ‘/and travel hardship was told in };}miles north of Stewart. OO ) exporters said, about 45,000,000 feet, of lumber will not be ship-| The 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 Ground Parties, Airplane Search For Starved Miner Waits For Rescue on River Beach, No Food Six Days Two ground parties and a Norseman plane are searching the rugged mountain area 22 miles north of Stewart for a crippled p for six days. A gasping story of starvation Stewart today by Bill Rowe, partner of the sought-for pros- pector, who stumbled into this mining town at 6 p.m. last night. He said he left Arthur 'Cam- eron on the banks of a river 22 The QCA Norseman piloted by Norm Jermyn returned to Prince Rupert at 2 o’clock this afternoon after he and Tom Wallace, manager of Western Wood Products at Stewart, were unable to spot Cameron. Food and other supplies loaded at Stewart were not dropped. The search party which left Stewart is headed by Ian Mc- Leod, whose brother recently was the lone survivor of a car accident there that claimed the lives of four men. rospector who hasn’t eaten pectors had not shown up at Stewart. The Bowser Lake party is tracing the path of the two min- ers in hopes of reaching Cam- eron before he dies of starvation. Rowse said he had to swim a river, Cameron was too weak to follow and stayed on the beach. “The country is terrible, the underbrush is so thick we had to crawl on our hands and knees much of the way,” gasped Rowe as he told Stewart hotel keeper Don McLeod of his experience. Coaches Charged For Beating Imported Player CALGARY (CP) — Coach Les Lear of the Calgary Stampeder Football Club and Line Coach Ed Champagne Friday were eel “J told him to rest on the beach at night, then build a big smokey fire in the morning so shortly before they were to eeaeh eae or plane come see his location.” since July 23, said Rowe. only travelled about 15 miles. A QCA Norseman left Stewart hours’ search failed to spot Comeron, thought Cameron. might be too weak to build a fire. He is crip- pled from a previous accident. days ago, RCMP Const. Schwing- The two men had not eaten They left Prince Rupert June 30, flown by Queen Charlotte Air Lines to Bowser Lake. They were due to come out at Stewart July 28. They got lost, and stumbled around for a week but at daybreak but after several Rowe, his partner, who accompanied the flight, Meanwhile, a two-man search party left Stewart at dawn to the area described by Rowe, Two hammer and three other men left for Bowser Lake when they be- came alarmed because the pros- charged with common assault in connection with the beating suffered Thursday night by im- ported Mel Embree. Embree, his face badly swol- len, told, police he had made the 1952 Stampeder team and after jpractice Thursday night. Lear and Champagne called him into © the dressing room. He said they jumped on him and knocked him down after he refused to sign a.contract call- ing for half of what he said he was supposed to get. } con a renege —-TIDES— Sunday, August 3, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) FESR ee 11:58. 17.1 feet 23:28 21.0 feet OY 5:29 * 3.2 feet 17:258 . 82 feet SKYROCKETING SALES Sales of Canadian food store chains “totalled $64,799,000 in May, 23 per cent more than ‘tn the same month last year. QWHITEHORSE, N, a ry Pe ' NX t ~ 4 bea eo 4 ‘ gh \ i; ‘ ° ' N. 8 ‘ es ;8 ‘roe? av. coun. e . Zt No ' ~*~: : \. GRANDE i PRAIRIE. | A” gh 2 Ne fe ot’ “ esanoseit, 7 > aL g EDMONTON® t Z RINCE 1 yf GEORGE, \ a : A y wl a st ay al <7 \ / LALGARY® 4 wy” S wT ‘ : _PEMTCTON. -_ 6034" -Ocaanenoox. » Sancouver. "CASTLEGAR, THE NORTH RUN—Canadian times will be reduced. The Pacific Airlines new 40-passenger, twin-engined Convair, pressurized planes will go on the Vancou- ver-Whitehorse run shown here. Because of their speed, flying company, said president Grant McConachie, has purchased five of the new deluxe riding liners, © first’ one to be delivered in December