pire r CAB »ATCHE TAR apio DIESE if COUVER ne Takes Decision Wer Ezzy 5 D tienen se etltneencetiee niin penineinerssin inch Attacks HIS Policy duction of Premium Rates Sheer Political Trickery The Canadian Press - Reduction Hospital Insurance Service itical trickery” migboy | h, pul ( pe } Sharles s last} » de d sole Layne nan and Layne the fis lighter, i ie the sain e Blanks ts For s Win xle §i irkont VM tor night lor the t} 1 ‘ ete ( running | charge, { the Ander of hi swhers lo a riants athing t jand ’ of rates for ane (CF party leader, Premier W. A. ¢ |terday announced | tion in premiums, | July & | co-insurance plan, which re- quired payment of $3.50 a day for the first 10 days in hospital, | With a “dollar a day” system Bennett yes- a $3 reduc- retoactive Mr. Winch, a member of the hospital insurance inquiry board, said “The Social Credit party promised to abolish co-insur- ance, but in imposing a $1 daily |charge, they have only shifted the financial burden onto the people who can least afford it.” EVASION He said the move was an eva jsion of recommendations of the jinquiry board which studied the | hospital scheme for 18 months recently submitted a vol uminous report and recommen- | dations “The $1 daily charge will hit |; at people who are ill longest and | who, because of them, can least | afford it,” said Mr. Winch. move is sheer political “The trickery.” Making the first major policy change since assuming leader- ship of the B.C. government a week ago, Premier Bennett at noon yesterday announced the changes in the hospital service With Health Minister Eric Martin and Lieyd Detwiller, commissidner of the BCHIS, in attendance in the premier’s office, Mr. Bennett said any persons who have already paid up their hospital insur- ance premiums will be credit- ed with the saving on their next billing. There will funds $1 A DAY The premier said the $1 a day effective today, will be be no cash re-) to and replacement of the the| Was} by Harold Winch, a" The Daily 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 No. 187 XLI, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., | | | | | | | | WALKING EMISSARY who is on his way to the farthest Kinsmen Club In Canada from Prince Rupert is James Cusack, formerly of this city and recently of Prince George. He carries with him a message of good will and verification of his mission “to walk” across Canada signed by local Kinsmen. Cusack left on first lap Tuesday noon Ser rae of Plaza Park to be Continued Development of Plaza Park as a children’s play ground is to be resumed next week, it was decided | }at a Parks Board meeting last night. Work at the site was arlier this week, pending a discontinued ¢ : ~| review of finances, Japs Charge US Officers | operations after, Works Super- | intendent Don Stewart appear- led before thé commissioners to vent fur-} payable for each day a person ° | outline work needed to complete beating |is in hospital. Under the co- Wt e t | levelling f The surance t atients al | ‘ 3 tm | Sane plan, patients paid On recommendation of Com- em 69 | $3.50 @ day.for the first 10 days.| TOKYO (CP)— Japanese offi missioner Charles Balagno, Mr York | Average stay in hospital is/cjais reported today that two| @ssloner ane ee Semen League | figured at 10 days United States officers stole more \f stewart will supervise bulldoz- P clouted| The premier said there will be; than £2,800,000 worth of dia- ing The job is expected to take I 9 and Cin-|no change in exemptions allow- | monds platinum and _ other | shows six days. St. Louis} ed social assistance cases. Any-| valuables during the occupation | . “a a McCLYMONT |} body exempt from paying hos-| They were taken from the pre- +! ‘ M : | pital insurance premiums pre-| /ectural office at Sendai, north- | Work on (the new picnic xn feat {viously still does not have to ern Japan, oe pag re-/ ground site at McClymont Park ame ym ? } e to inve yA gc : |pay them port made to Investigating com vi ate > pk eheader | mittee from House of Represen aes ae ee cae “ 1% gy a : L to five | Wi 10 ye seedec L 5 pring Ihe report 1idd an American 2 " Dolice Said captain, a member of the mili B . os reg oe. sicatt Havas t y { te yk AWAY i lk rge SUD ¢ wn { . . 9 on ‘the a mount : nk ol sccermas ‘ vie Board chairman, see City Clerk home oO ave ed a ribbled signature on Bill Long regarding the draw- alled be 1 piece of paper : jing up of a plebiscite to submit t 0 é } Bost it New U N : to voters, at the same time as tt Wash- Pp egro aes wate aes rae It he telephone by-law, to have cently urnec ac { 1 Jap * . ifip the Roosevelt, Park Beautifica VANCOUVER (CP) — Police anese government tons of gold | tion and Development Fund |Chief Walter Mulligan is if-/anq silver and diamonds “froz- transferred to general part er Gas | vestigating reports that two citylen” when the U.S. troops land Peres ' e police constables beat a 52-year-) oq jin Japan in 1945 ee : os a lows | old Negro longshoreman so bad-! capt eisl ot date has 7 for . aa ly he is given only a 50-50 ” viscite on the telephone by- cific ichance to live WEATHER law. RR Clarence Clemons has been in or In a review of moneys spent I ‘ ” ; Pacific Pet-| hospital here in “poor” condi- | No 13 John an ¢ ( Olumnist, lily ed the avers 1 like lve}, | dV Ney news Ma n ‘ay reported| tion since July New British 1 had miles No. 1, xten- ohn oil field | tor’s ' spokes. | hospital on July 28 after 28. He was ar- rested in an East End cafe on July 19 and charged with as-} | saulting a police officer Clemons was remanded and freed on bail on July 21. On doc orders, he was taken to lying jill at his home for a week. age outdoorsman runs into from time to * to discuss in his column the various erienced joe ally °S8 or lack thereof of week-end fishing trips items which are treated with extra ‘y in his own outdoor style. Call or write © miss Monday’s lively episode on the Daily Outdoor Stuff” with Marty. End Fishing Trips Are Newsy; Daily News Outdoor Writer ‘urn from your fishing trip over the week-end ‘In particular who would like a word with the game warden, He is Eric Martin, Daily “xpert angler and hunter, Mr. Martin knows | } Synopsis | so far this year, Secretary Peter The ky is nearly cloudless Lien said the Parks Board has over B.C. this morning and is, spent $5173 out of its $9500 bud- expected to remain so over the/ get for 1952. | week-end Temperatures — will Of the total, more than $1800) continue their upward trend to- day and Sunday was for labor, | From the budget of $1000 for! SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1952 The board decided to res sume | « y < Tr TEN CENTS (including comic section) ADT. o PROVINCIAL Li RBARY, ove “9 ete ORMES DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Big | Mill Destroyed By Blaze | ‘NEW WESTMINSTER @—The iglant operations of Capilano | Timber Company were levelled by fire this morning, leaving | Only a few small buildings some | distance from the main plant. | -Loss is estimated at between ' $500,000 and $1,000,000. Fire broke out in the chipper |infll and spread rapidly throug- jout the plant. ' Heat from flames was so in- tense that paint on automobiles m@re than 1,000 feet away was scorched. Firemen were still on the scene at peer time. Canadians Get Visas By Fraud WASHINGTON @—The Jus- tice Department, said Friday in- vestigation has established that about 100 Canadians who entered thé United States and settled in the Detroit area obtained immi- gration visas through fraud. Attorney-General James Mc- Granery said deportation pro- ceédings have been started in one case and other cases will re- ceive “appropriate action.” The announcement said most of the Canadians involved had obtained. their visas through !misrepresentations made to the jpmerione Consulate at aee Wenden, BC Men Held | In Seattle Stabbing MOUNT VERNON, Wash. @)— Five British Columbia Indians have been arrested here for the slaying of Pete Johnson, 51- year-old night watchman at the Pean Vining station near Con- way, Sheriff Harold Hinshaw said today the five admitted their guilt in signed statements. The sheriff said the killing occurred last Wednesday night in a fraeas after the men failed to obtain gasoline for their car! from the ene. League Cup Play Opers Scottish League Cup, Div. “A” Clyde 1, Airdrieonians 1 (tie) Dundee 2, Raith Rovers 1 East Fife 2, Queen of the South 0 Hearts 5, Rangers 0 Motherwell 5, Aberdeen 2 Patrick Thistle 1, Hibernian 5 ‘ St. Mirren 0, Celtic 1 Third Lanark 2, Falkirk 4 1 M. J. COLDWELL . CCF Leader CCF Re-elects M.J. Coldwell TORONTO -—M. J. Coldwell Friday was re-elected president and national leader of the CCF by the party’s national conven- tion here . There were no other nomina- tions dent and national leader since! 1942. Sabre Jets Down 19th Red Plane Sabre jet pilots shot duwn an- other Communist MIG today, the 19th in six straight days of smashing victories against the| Russian-built jets. The Air Force also triumph- antly announced, prior to to- day’s battle, that not a single combat in the last week. How- ever, four were lost to enemy ground fire and four to _unre- ported causes. Swift Allied fighter-bombers today maintained a stepped up pace against Communist supply and troop targets in North Korea. Father Held For Murder Of Daughter KAMLOOPS (CP) — Kosawuro Masuda, 56-year-old handyman, Friday was charged with mur- der in connection with the bed- room shotgun slaying of his 17- year-old daughter, Mrs. Lily Bing. Mrs. Lily Bing was slain in her bed Thursday by a killer who smashed out her bedroom window with an ax and blasted .| her three times with a shotgun. No motive for the slaying has been advanced. Even Judge Stumbles on New Word LONDON (AP)—Judge Frank Powell was reading aloud from a report on a girl in court yesterday when he stumbled on the word “ambivalent.” He asked for the court dictionary but couldn't find the word in it. And no wonder, commented the judge. The dictionary was published in 1856. Ambivalence, according to a modern psychiatric word book, is “contrasting emotions, such as love and hatred—one of which may be unconscious—experienced at the same time for the some person.” Along the coast there will be| the development of McClymont| brief cloudy periods early Sun-| Park, $592 already has been | day morning but the weather on | spent. ithe whole will remain sunny and | In drawing up their budget! warm, ;earlier in the year, $4000 of the} Forecast |budget was allocated for labor, | Sunny today and Sunday eX-/ with the remainder for ‘work | cept for overcast low cloud along} and equipment in parks and the mainland shoreline Sunday | | playgrounds. morning. Not quite so warn to- | morrow, Wind westerly 20 in | exposed areas otherwise light Low tonight and high a at Port Hardy 50 and 65; Sar | spit 57 and 70; Prince Rupert ‘8 | and 68 | BROTHER ATRME | TOKYO (AP)—British demand | STELLARTON, N.S. CP)—Four | lfor surtender. of two © British brothers, the entire family of Mr.) and Mrs. George’ MacPherson |S#lors convicted by a Japanese here, are serving with the RCAF | court drew strong support today | as ground crew. The parents are | | from unexpected quarters. proud of the boys, ranging from | Dr. Juji Enomotor, former top 18-year-old Douglas to 26-year-| Japanese Naval lawyer, told a old Wallace, but “it’s rather quiet| press conference it is against around the house | “international custom” for. a Japanese civil court to try ws seh Other former naval officers agreed, Peter T. Stinner and Derek Smith, both 2-year-old crew members of the cruiser Belfast, were convicted by a Kobe district court of stealing a Japanese taxi and 1,700 yen, Japanese Na val Officer S upports British In Demand to Release Convicted Sailors Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden lodged a protest with the Japanese government and de- manded the sailors be turned over to British military authori- ties. Nearly all Japanese newspap- ers editorially urged the govern- Even at $10 United Kingdom has been 15 to October 31. This was announced today by Ralph Shaw, vice-president of MacMillan & Bloedel, multi- million-dollar lumber firm. He said the deadline was ex- tended by the British Timber Control Board on condition that operators accept a loss of $10 a thousand feet on lumber not yet shipped. Another condition is that con- tracts be cancelled for railway lumber materials, such as ties, apparently required by the Brit- ish prior to the original dead- line Operators, however, aneetved the news with glee. A spokes- man said the operators will cer- tainly accept the British condi- tions and consider they are get- Mr. Coldwell thas been presi-|feduction from the $35 price "HUGE SAVING tension means operators | save SEOUL (CP) — United States | Fifth Air Force said American Settled on July 29. Allied plane was left in aerial|* ting off lightly with only a $10 paid by the United Kingdom. The spokesman said the ex- will between $4,500,000 and | $7,000,000. This represents from | 45,000,000 to 75,000,000 feet of | umber which was not shipped before the deadline because of |B.C.’s_ prolonged woodworkers’ vo U. K. Extends Deadline For Lumber Shipment Operator Savings Huge Reduction By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—Deadline for shipment of about $15,000,000 worth of British Columbia lumber to the extended from September Local Nimrods Accept Bid At Pigeon Shoot Prince Rupert Rod and. Gun Club members are oiling up their shotguns in readiness to accept a clay pigeon shooting challenge from their Terrace affiliates. The gauntlet was tossed to James Bacon, Prince Rupert club president this week. The shoot takes place next Sunday. While the local club of hunters and anglers has no shooting range and may be “slightly out of practice,” Mr. Bacon believes that “we'll give them a good run for their money.” The Terrace club recently pur- chased an 80-acre tract of land on Which it operates the shoot- ing range. All local Roa arid Gunners, in- terested in participating in the shoot, are .asked to contact either Mr. Bacon or George Rot- vik, secretary. Contractors The 45-day-old strike es Notice of the extension comes only eight days after two BC. jlumber executives left Vancou- | ver by air for London in an ef- | fort to forestall cancellation of | the lumber orders. At that time, exporters said the loggers’ strike had caused a shortage of shipping and that it was impossible to complete shipment of orders to. Britain by September 15. —-TIDES— (Pacific Standard Time) Sunday, August 10, 1952 Silent on New Proposal VANCOUVER () —Contractors yesterday made no decision on the Labor Relation Board’s pro- posal aimed at ending the two- /month construction tie-up if seven coast cities. After a two-hour closed session they announced they will meet again next Thursday or possibly earlier if a meeting is called by the chair. Some 3,000 carpenters in Van- couver and on Vancouver Island started to strike June 6. Con- tractors retaliated with a lock- out, making another 5,000 work- High 4:19 19.6 feet 16:45 20.5 feet LOW isu ee 4.1 feet 23:07 4.5 feet ment to spurn the protest: Rupert, a friend of Cusack, ers in allied trades idle. GOODLUCK KISS was tendered on cross-country hiker James Cusak Tuesday noon by Mrs. H. C. Hood, of Vancouver, as the 43-year-old automotive parts man set out on hike to cross the continent. Mrs, Hood is the mother of Ralph Hood, of Prince li