MH spATCHED pio DI lmon shing nlted eena River sed 10 Days et fishing River areé 14 ‘ ; ail Al | night} iin at a 1) days. iot affect part of | uper- {ft the clos- |} D onserva aer Says 6 p.m § p.m. Sun p nnounced | ilinets of} esh will a a (Se 1 at the PARACHUTE PATTERN—About sockeye ireéa @X- Simpson * th end of isure 18 ason, al A tn year | the pink at its VANCOUVER Canadian Congress of Labor Wednesday averag- | Protested the appointment of a lav in the| 7Tades and Labor Congre or- week and ganizer as British Columbia's ed” with deputy minister of labor | Appointment of William Sands of sock-| #8 deputy minister Was announc- ave been| a Tuesday by new Social Credit ‘rd is be-| Premier W. A. C. Bennett et for that} Recently the Provincial Labor 1 pack of | Relations Board certified the | Fruit and Vegetable Workers ecelved 25] Union (TCL) as bargaining agent | tence of a union.” sockeye, | {OF workers in 30 Okanagan Val- | d of that eteran fish- operating because haven't good loads.” said quit jig sock- ost of the ive peen are piled ilmon frorn ind some » is still otian hers re Riot burned out biggest yesterday | ersons ired in which Gen aid was fo- in pay of were promised nt” for the ons are un- i be tried on was the first wb and the r July 25 translated 300 :prin- dialects of illage in Fi $ Northwest of Orest fire toda y te. The Yalako Btroyed b %ds, a m XREN, Ohio— TaP Sacks fore Orles Fol bout $7] the | | Che PROVINCIAL In News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greaf Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952 VOL. XLI, No. 191 20 paratroope s of the Royal Canadian Regiment’s Second Battalion form a picturesque pattern as they descend to the St. Thomas, Ont., Munjcipal Airport. The air exercises were part of the Elgin County centennial celebrations. took the airstrip in a mock battle from the de ‘ending Elgin Regiment. CCL Protests Appointment of Sands s Deputy of Labor; Claims ‘Payoff’ jley plants by United Packinghouse -Werk- } VICTORIA (CP) —1 Axe May Fall on BC Civil Service Workers The paratroopers (CP PHOTO) ers (COL). Sands was the TCL organizer in the Okanagan George Home, president of the B.C, Federation of Labor (CCL) charged at a meeting of Greater Vancouver and the Lower Main- land Labor Council (CCL) that Sands while on the payroll of the Packinghouse Workers ,in 1946, “undermined its standing and position in the Okanagan by | assisting in the organization of | ja rival company-promoted pre- Jim Bury, secretary of the} was “paying off” Okanagan with }Sands' appointment. | | j ’remier W. A. C. Bennett isaid Wednesday a general scaling down of British} |Columbia’s 10,000-person civil service is planned by lithe new Social Credit gov Casualties Total 926 OTTAWA ()—The Army Wed- | nesday issued its 125th casualty list of the Korean war reporting | two men killed in action and four wounded in action. All were from the ist Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment Last casualty list issued Tues- day reported three men wounded in action Latest list brings to 926 the number of casualties suffered so far by Canadian troops in Korea, including 162 dead, 791 wounded, 64 injured, eight mis- sing and one listed as a prisoner of war, Dread Disease CAPETOWN ( — One-seventh of the “world's population get malaria ands one percent die,” Dr. R. Elsdon-Dew, a South Af- rican research scientist, told a congress here. “Malaria is man’s greatest enemy .. . between two and three million people die of the disease every year,” he said LLETINS re Ring LOOET (CP)_The tiny settlement of Moha, here, was almost surrounded nd residents prepared to lumber mill in the village Y tire, touching off a roaring blaze * oe * Rob Bank of $71,000 Three armed bandits masked ed the car of a Warren bank ey off the road today and robbed 000 cash. ernment, rhe premier said all depart-| ments of the government are} being surveyed in an effort to find out which are over-staffed There will be no ‘wholesale firing of civil servants,” he said, but we think the civil service may be over-staffed and we ijwant to find out for sure.” He added that his govern- }ment’s aim is a gradual reduc- tion in the civil service staff. This could be accomplished, he said, by filling vacancies which oecur because of deaths, retire- ments and resignations by a transfer of workers from one department to another The premier also said a sur- vey is being made of the num- ber of government vehicles. —_WEATHER- Synopsis An outbreak of cool air which moved rapidly southward over B.C. and Alberta- overnight brought a marked change in the}. } weather picture to these regions. |Considerable cloudiness is ex- pected over B.C, today and to- morrow with daytime tempera- |tures remaining several degrees lower than they have been dur- | ing the past few days. Forecast Cloudy in southern section, sunny remainder of region to- day an dtomorrow, Little change lin temperature. Wind light. Low | tonight, and high tomorrow at Port Hardy 50 and 62; Sandspit 52 and 72; Prince Rupert 5 and 68. Columnist Dies Of Heart Attack WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Mark Sullivan, 78, nationally known newspaper columnist died of a heart attack last night in the | Chester County hospital. In the newspaper business for 64 years, Sullivan was author of several books, including his own autobiography, and once served as editor of Colliers Magazine RCMP Plane Bringing Dog Held by Fog AN RCMP plane bringing a police: dog to Porcher Island to Search for 10-year-old Evelyn | Doucette, was grounded by bad weather at Alert Bay late Wed- This wiped out the| Labor Couneil, said the Premier | ®eSday and has not been able certification held in three plants | to continue northward. RCMP here said at noon to- : ._|day to trace has been found of! #lectric : ; has been/| bake, died Tuesday in hospital at the little girl who missing since shortly after sup- per Tuesday night. Her father, a fisherman from | Sidney, Vancouver Island, has| | joined two RCMP officers who! the pioneer residents of this city ;went from Prince Rupert and |others on the island in a wide- spread search. Canadian ‘Troops Come Home SEATTLE ©—Delayed a week by mechanical difficulties, the U.S. troopship Frederick Fun ston docked here Wednesday with 326 Canadian veterans of the Korean war. Troops were greeted by Brig W. J. McGill, British Columbia area commander, and within an hour of docking were aboard a special train which will carry them to points across Canada British Columbia soldiers de- parted immediately for Van- couver aboard army buses Arrival of the Canadians brought almost to completion rotation of members of the orig- inal 25th Infantry Brigade Small groups of “originals” re- main in Japan and Korea but will be rotated in the near future. WELSH PIONEERS SALTCOATS, Sask. ())—Nearly 500 old-timers registered for the 50th anniversary celebration of the arrival of the Welsh colony here. Gifts were presented to the three oldest pioneers, Mr. and Mrs, R. Morris and Mrs. W. Thomas. Lightning Kills LM a | i | Tititage! outbreak and at Mosher B.C. Woods Stricken by Many Fires BURNS LAKE—Out of control and advancing about two miles every hour, the 5,000-acre Tin- tagel forest fire moved deeper |into rich timber stands Wednes- | day night In Victoria, the Forest Service said the forest fire situation was “the worst it’s been this year” with 1,000 men fighting (149 fires throughout the pro- Virice The two worst blazes are the Creek, in the Bella Coola valley, where fire has ripped through | 1,000 acres of timber. Wednesday, the 20th straight day without rain, seven new fires wae reported in the Vancouver fofest, district, where hazard has resulied in a ban of logging op- erations. A steady wind was driving the Tintagel fire northward toward Babine Lake when a sudden | Shiftin the wind Tuesday de- toured the fire away from the village of Tintagel, eight miles east of here on the Prince George-Prince Rupert highway. Former City Alderman Dies in South William H. Montgomery, for- mé@r city alderman and one of the fathers of the .city hydro- plant ‘at New Westminster. | He would have been 80 years }old on October 11. Mr. Montgomery was one of land one of Prince Rupert’s dearliest aldermen, He had been in failing health for several months. | Borri in Ireland, he moved to |Canada, first settling on the | prairies and came to Prince Ru- pert while the city was in its infancy wee He took an active interest in public affairs and was always on the front line. on matters per- taining to the fishing industry and labor matters. In 1911, he contested the Prince Rupert provincial riding as a Socialist candidate but was de- feated and he wound up his municipal career by contesting without success the mayoralty seat. For many years he followed longshore work and later oper- ated a second hand store on Third Avenue He left Prince Rupert in the early 30s, settling on a 30-acre farm about seven miles from New Westminster, where he and Mrs Montgomery resided up to the time he was taken to hospital. Besides his wife, he leaves three sons and three daughters. The sons are: Rayner, partner in Armour Salvage Company here; Robert, skipper aboard the fishpacker Ispace; and William }of the Granby Mining Company |at Allenby, B.C. | Mrs. Alex Barbe, wife of the |chief engineer for the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-opera- itive Association at Fairview, is ja daughter. Others are Mrs. |Wilfred (Florence) Gardner of Vancouver and Mrs. Dolly Kelly of Hamiiton, Ontario. 1, Burns Pal: | | Heat Melted Cans in Packsack ELLENSBURG, Wash. (? hit by the same lightning bolt An injured mountain climber, that killed his companion, said Wednesday “the heat was so great it melted the cans in my pack.” The pack was on his back Bob Grant, 19, told of the ordeal on his arrival here on a Coast Guard helicopter that in the Cascades. snatched him from Mt. Stuart, Fruit juice cans in Grant's haversack were fused together by lightning that burned him and killed Paul Brikoff, 20. “I was about 20 feet from Paul when the first lightning bolt struck us Sunday,” Grant related from the stretcher on which he lay with his burned about 20 feet.” feet bandaged. “It knocked me Woodworth PRICE FIVE CENTS Man Loses Life Fi Burns Lake Forest Fir PROVINCIAL LIBR , were sg SMUGGLED SWEETHEART— Loboria Sarraolandia, 30- year-old Spanish sailor, and Rita Cappeiloeni, his 25-year- old Italian sweetheart whom he smuggled aboard a Greek freighter in a duffelbag, will be deported from Canada, ac- cording to immigration offi- cials at Vancouver. She was concealed for 52 days in Third Engineer Sarraolandia’s cabin on the freighter Panagoiotis Coumantaros. He had to re- veal the stowaway’s presence when he could no _ longer smuggle food to her. (CP Photo) L 1 Missing, From Trap One firefighter was New Board Appointed For P.G.E. Gov't. to Fight For Old Contract VICTORIA (CP)—New board of directors for the government- owned Pacific Great Eastern Railway was announced Wed- nesday by Premier W. A. C. Ben- nett. Premier Bennett will be presi- dent of the board succeeding former Premier John Hart. Finance Minister Einar Gunderson and Bernard Alien, DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 ghtin 6 Saved of Flames burned to death, another is missing and six made their way to freédom late Wednesday when a raging forest fire near Burns Lake broke out of control, trapped the men and destroyed valuable fire-fighting equipment. Dead is Howard Gordon, mill- worker at Burns Lake, where his wife and five children re- side. Missing is J. H. Hunter. Names of the men who reach- ed safety were not known. The fire already has razed an area of 8000 acres between Tin- tagel and Boer Mountain, and although it is still burning fiercely, Forestry Department officials said weather conditions this morning were aiding the firefighters. Humidity in the area is re- ported going up considerably and low-lying fog is helping. The eight men were trapped in the southwest corner when a high wind drove flames over their, heads, FOLLOW *DOZER An oldtime firefighter in the retiring manager of the Can- adian, National Railways in Vancouver, are new appoint- ees to board. James Stewart, PGA chief en- Canada to Give UK. Millions OTTAWA (@—Production Min- a $320,000,000 program to aid the United Kingdom through de- fence-equipment gifts, purchas- es and capital assistance. He also denied that Canada lacks sym- pathy for Britain’s financial problems. “The Canadian government is prepared to do more for the U.K. than for any other country in the world,” Howe said in an interview. He said that Canada this year will send about $150,000,000 worth of armaments to Britain as a gift under mutual aid, purchase of about $100,000,000 worth of defence equipment from British 000,000 in capital assistance to help establish some key U.K. de- fence plants in Canada. New Liner VLISSINGEN, The Netherlands @®—Construction of an ocean liner, as yet known only as M273, for the Swedish-American Line is nearing the launching stage at the De Schelde shipyards here. Six of her nine decks have been laid and she now stands 65 feet above her bed. ister Howe announced yesterday factories and provide some $70,-| ways minister, was reappointed. a time post, if he wants it. Mr. before the new board of direc- tors at their first meeting. Former directors were Byron Johnson and Herbert Anscomb. AGREEMENT ; Meanwhile, the government intends to fight to the last ditch to force Canadian Na- tional Railways to carry out its famous 1912 agreement. “We expect the CNR to carry out that agreement,” Premier Bennett said Wednesday. The agreement, which still has several years to run, was made between the government- owned PGE and the old Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, now the CNR. Under the terms, GTP prom- ised that on completion of the PGE to Prince George, all freight originating on the GTP from eastern points and headed for Vancouver must be routed down the PGE. With the PGE now _ nearly completed to Prince George, the old agreement takes on an add- ed importance. First of the great Arctic ex- plorers was John Davis of Brit- ain who reached west Greenland in 1587. gimeer and acting deputy rail- One vacancy will remain. for and. there has been '| speculation that J. A. Kennedy PGE general manager, may be appointed to a vacant directer’s Kennedy has submitted his resignation but it must go area told the men to follow a bulldozer through the raging flames to a burned out area and forestry officials said six of the men made their way to safety by this means. The others apparently took what they believed to be a shorter route. Gordon’s . body. was found burned almost beyond recogni- tion. Percy Young, district forester at Prince Rupert, is on the scene directing fire-fighting opera- tions. A report to the forestry de- partment office here said crews aved four bulldozers from the urning area by driving them through flames to burned out sections, but one, owned by Cliff Harrison of Burns Lake, was badly damaged by fire. : EQUIPMENT LOST Fire-fighting crews have been reduced from 189 men to 100 due to loss of much valuable fire-fighting equipment. It is not known whether any of the six who reached safety were burned. The fire, considered the worst in British Columbia at the pres- ent time, broke out last Sunday, threatening the village of Tin- tagel, eight miles east of Burns Lake. ‘ All told, about 150 forest fires are burning throughout the province. -TIDES— Friday, August 15, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) » WW i 10:27 15.1 feet 21:57 17.6 feet PII ca cucu 3:51 6.0 feet 15:46 10.7" feet ae x MILLION-DOLLAR week lumbermen's strike. FIRE—The Capil aac ani Timber Company mill at New Westminster has been destroyed by fire of unkown origin. Damage to the mill, one of the largest shingle plants in B.C., was estimated at $1,000,000. If resumed operations about two weeks ago after a seven= ~ (CP PHOTO)