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VOL, XLI. No. 195

UP AND OVER goes a champion of the horse world, the Victoria-

owred mare Folly
be featured at the

Forum Sept. 17, 18, 19 and 20

ridden by owner C
» International Horse

C. Carpenter. Folly will
Show in the Vancouver

The show is sponsored by the

| Marpole Rotary Club of Vancouver and the proceeds go to the

club's. charities

i
n

aid of children

Typhoon Whips Korean Coast:

SEOUL
typhoon

rhe
winds

of a
100 |
west

centre
with up t
hit Korea's

80 miles
and roared

the

oO
miles per hour
at Kunsat

Seoul,

coast south

ol acros sthe

peninsula towards Sea of)
Japan

The ship-wrecking storm
| brought torrential rains to all of

South Korea. One ship

was | the

| Shipwreck; Another Missing

Red Branded
Delegate Gets
Admission

WINNIPEG @—A British Co-
lumbia delegate’s credentials to
Trades and Labor Congress

PROVINCIAL

Da

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NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER
Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Pan Freee Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest”

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C

.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1952

THANKSGIVING DAY—OCT. 13

PROCLAIMED PUBLIC HOLIDAY

VICTORIA ©
proclaimed a public holiday.

British Columbia has procjainmted the day a

Thanksgiving Day, on October 13, has been

a holiday under

the Factories Act but not under the Shops Regulations Act.

Breeze Fans Blaze
Into Raging Inferno

B.C. Forest Service officials!
tagel fire, started by a lightning
Strike on August 9, is believed |

to be the biggest fire in

 

to estimate acreage accurately |
because of a heavy pall of smoke
over the area.

A report from the scene said
a light wind is biowing today
and the weather at the scene is
cool but there is no sign of rain.

Except for the north and east
sections, fire lines in other parts
are holding and now
and six bulldozers are working
around the clock in an effort to
Stop the spread.

The blaze at the present time
is heading northeast toward
Taltaplin Lake, through beetle-
infested balsam

Few of the trees caught in
| the path of flames in the Tin-
tagel area had commercial value
as they were nearly all insect-
|infested balsam. Because there
is little foliage on these types
of trees, they are highly vola-
| tile and burn easily.

The Forest Service now has
established. its base camp at

| wrecked and another is overdue | of Canada convention here were | Tintagel and although firefight-

| raft to rescue 40 of 43 passengers

the
motor vessel Tokushin Maru
| Ship broke up on
Island of Miyako
south of Okinawa
her two small

and crew aboard
The
rocks near the
about 160 miles |
A woman
children
Six American

and
were iost
planes da
for |
with |
ssel is

250

an

destroyer are searohing

| the
83 persons

Czech ship Republika
The

about

aboard
in distre
of Shanghai

ve

| repo! ted

miles east

Kemano Worker
Dies In Hospital

A Vancouver man
died in hospital
| this morning from injuries
| fered hours
leru hed by a
RCMP here
details of the
known here, Mr
two children live
St., Vancouver
An_ inquest
(Kemano

Simon Rosa,
| 40
suf- |
Six earlier when
swinging

said
accident
Rosa's wife and |
at 1215 Hornby

crane
no further

were

will be held at

Japanese |

| President
| other officers

at Kemano|

Americans used an oil drum [held | up for a time today but he

was later admittert.

Ted Foort of Vancouver, rep-
resenting the B.C. United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers’ Union
was barred by the convention
credentials committee but subse-
quently was given his papers by
the TLC executive of appeal.

The credential committee held
up Foort’s admi in its con-
tinued policy of screening dele-,
gates against Red sympathizers. |
It held he had taken part in aj}
fund raising drive to send aj
Canadian

Foort
execullve

ssion

went before
convinced TLC
Bengough and
that the accusation

later the
and
Perey

was not right

‘Bowman Gets
Railway Post

VICTORIA ()—Harry Bowman,
former agriculture minister in
B.C.’s, Coalition government has
been appointed to the Canadian
National Railways Colonization
Department in Winnipeg

Between 1901 and 1950 the
Canada’s mining pro-
duction increased 1,508 per cent
ito $1, 85,000,000

value of

 

; counts

In the summer of 1871

he land $200,000

of valuable stocks
The money was re-

Way magnate,

| turned up at an hotel at Min- | turned and Lord Gordon arrest-

neapolis, Minn., where
were received addressed to “I
Gordon Gordon.”

deposited in a Minneapolis bank
and overnight Lord Gordon be-
came a local celebrity. He mixed
pleasure with talk of transport-
ing “poor” folk from his British
estates to settle in Minnesota

Lord Gordon and his talk of
settlers was a natural lure to
ambitious railway agents. He
was courted and entertained

Colonel J. Loomis, land com-
missioner of the Northern
cific Railway, “spent $45,000 of
railway money but told his di-
rectors the noble lord would
spend $5,000,000 with them.”

Lord Gordon left for New York
after leading Minneapolis to be-
lieve he would return with
of his Scottish families. No one
has ever calculated how
Minnesota money went
him.
FIRST MISTAKE

Lord Gordon achieved
greatest success in New
and made his first blunder. Rail-
way officials again were his
prey after he produced excellent
credentials,

He barely escaped after trying
to swindle Jay Gould, U.S

with

 

letters | ed for felony
ward | when friends posted $37,000 bail.

| when
Pa-

| their

100 |

much |

his |
York |

He fled to Canada

Later he came to Manitoba

Twenty thousand dollars were | and lived at a boarding house in
| Headingley

Two American de-
tectives, armed with a doubtful
warrant, followed him. Lord
Gordon was seized and whisked
to the U.S. border at Pembina.

The detectives were brought
back to Winnipeg — then Fort
Garry and charged with kid-
napping. Powerful protests from
both sides of the border stopped
the men pleaded guilty
and received a 24-hour jail sen-
tence, Sir John A. Macdonald,
then prime minister helped gain
release. Gordon, for the
moment was free.

When British investigators
caught up with him at Heading-
ley he shot himself through the
head.

Records of his life on this side
of the ocean, including hotel
bills, have been preserved, but
his correct name has never been
discovered,

One article published 53 years
ago says his parents were cul-

itured and well-travelled, But it

adds they were leaders in a

|group engaged in international

rail- |

smuggling from the island of

Jersey

Communist to Russia. |

ers are still on the lookout for

a man reported imissitig sinc’

last Wednesday, all organized

search has been stopped.

The man, known only as a
“Mr. Hunter,” became separated
from a crew which dashed to
freedom when trapped by the
flames. Another firefighter,
Harold Gordon, was burned to
death at the time.

Officials are attempting to
| positively identify the man be-
|cause of carying reports of his
| initials.

Forestry men know. only that
one man from the crew of eight
is missing and that his surname
is Hunter

Fires in other sections of the
Prince Rupert division are un-
der control.

Report from Victoria said al-
together 1253 men are fighting

the |
province in 10 years, it is hard | fires in British Columbia since

120 men)

 

40 000 Acres Now Afire
Near Central B.C. Town

A light wind late Monday re-kindled the Tintagel
fire near Burns Lake into a mass of raging flames

in the northern and eastern sections of the 40,000-
acre blaze. i

 

jince at the present time. The

said today that while the Tin- total is 12 less than last Friday

| when more than 1500 men wete
| fire- fighting

There have been 1227 forest

May i, compared with 1405 in
the same period last year.

TLC Maintains
Socialistic
Principles

WINNIPEG (©—Warm juris-
dictional union scrap stirred the
annual convention of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada
soon after its opening yesterday.

Attempt to shift membership
from TLC’s own small directly
chartered unions to big interna-
tional and national unions pre-
cipitated a fight with opponents
of the shift winning easily.

In the other of the day’s two
major controversies, the yearly
assembly of the 522,000-member
Congress, Canada's biggest labor
body, gave no encouragement to
an attempt by one of its nvember
uniwis» to. eliminate . the dong
standing socialist planks from
the TLC’s 18-point platform of
principles

President Percy Bengough
urged continuance of Canadian
labor’s clean-up drive on Com-
munists in union ranks, declar-
ing they are seeking to use the
union movement only to destroy
it.

Four New Polio
Cases Reported

VICTORIA ~—- Four new polio
cases—three of them in the Kim-
berley area—broke out in British
Columbia during the week-end.
No deaths were reported.

There have.been 107 cases and
10 deaths in the province to date

 

137 fires throughout the prov-| this year.

 

LONDON © What's

a bit noisy.”

late in October.

all the

That was the reaction today of 91-year-old Tim Heal of
Vancouver as he stepped off an airliner after an unaccompan-
ied flight across the Atlantic from Montreal.

The spry, beaming old-timer told reporters he decided to
make the trip on the spur of the moment and see his “baby”
sister, 82-year-old Mrs. Pelitha Hardy of Portsmouth.

“I really enjoyed the trip,”

91-Year-Old Crosses Atlantic
By Air, Says it was Noisy

fuss about?”

said Heal, ‘except that it was

After 46 years in Canada, Heal still looks and talks like an
English countryman, He wore a Donegal sports jacket, pullover,
flannels and a light grey Trilby.

He plans to return to Canada

 

 

AMONG TOKENS o appreciation presented to members of the

Canadian Red Cross Society, host to the 18th International Red
Cross Conference, is this “slendang” or scarf worn by Harold H.
Leather, Hamilton, Chairman of the Executive Committee, The
Scarf and a book were gifts of the Indonesian delegates. Left to
right are Seediman Kartohadiprodio, Hon. Leopold Macaulay,
Chairman of Central Council, Mr. Leather, Miss Paraminta R.
oerachman and Lt.-Col. Dr, Soemarno Sosroatmodio

News

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

WIFE MISSING: -— Robert w.
King, 26, of Edmonton, whose
bride of eee was missing
from the limer Ascania when
it docked iri Liverpool recently,
arrives in Montreal on his way
back to Edmoriton. He said he
felt authorities had searched
as thoroughly as possible for
his 22-year-old bride, Benita,
who disappeared while the ves-
sel was at sea. (CP Photo)

Cost May
Kill Herring

Industry

VANCOUVER (—British Co-
lumbia’s $8,000,000 herring in-
dustry is in danger because of
rising costs and a world drop in
fish oil prices of 50 per cent,
Richard Nelson, president of Nel-
son Brothers Fisheries Ltd. of
Vancouver, said here.

He said some of the companies
in the industry “feel it impossible
to operate and have not begun
preparing nets and gear for this
season.”

“A year ago price of fish oil

PROVINCIAL L

VICTORIA, 8

will save the bulk of the

About 75 per cent of the sock-
eye in the Skeena River spawn
in Babine Lake, 50 miles north
of the 300-foot-high slide which
almost completely plugged the
river last. fall.

A permanent solution to the
situation is expected to be
known when fisheries experts
return from the site later this
week. Their recommendations
will be completed at Vancouver.

This was disclosed here this
morning by Dr. A. L. Pritchard
of Ottawa, director of the con-
servation and development serv-
ice for the federal department
of fisheries.

The wilderness road has been
completed to the site and men
and supplies can now reach the
slide where thousands of sock-
eye were killed or _ seriously
bruised attempting to reach the
spawning grounds last year.

Mr. Pritchard, who left
here by air for Vancouver
after a trip to the slide, said
the department. considers the
work at the Babine slide the
most “important thing we

 

was 12 cents a pound, Today you
can't sell it for more than 5% or
six cents.”

 

He said nets which used to
cost $5,000 to $6.000 apiece now
cost $25,000 to $30,000.

TLC Urges

Firms Use

Union Label

WINNIPEG ()—A move to pro-
mote use of union labels, shop
cards and buttons in soliciting
patronage for union establish-
ments Was launched today by
delegates to the annual conven-
tion of Trades and Labor Con-
gress of Canada.

Delegates, meeting before the
opening of the organization’s
67th annual convention today,
approved a constitution for a
new wing of the TLC to be known
as the Union Label Trades de-
partment.

It will be composed of TLC
unions using labels, cards and
buttons on products of members
to designate ants union membership

Child Drowns
In Cesspool

RCMP here today were advised
that two-year-old Kenneth Tay-
lor was found dead in a cesspool
at Terrace last Saturday.

A coroner's jury, after viewing
the body, adjourned until Thurs-
day. '

No further details were known

here. ;

Two Dead On
Casualty List

OTTAWA @-—The army has
issued its 12! casualty list of
the Korean War, reporting one
man killed in’ ‘action and two
wounded. oo
The last list was issued Aug. 15
The latest brings to 935 the total
of casualties suffered to date by
the Canadian Army in Korea,
including 165 dead; 696 wound-
ed, 64 injured, nine missing, and
one prisoner of war.

have right now in our serv-
ice.”,

IBRARY,

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Salmon Pass

Babine Slide

Most Important Job
Says Fisheries Man

‘A temporary passage at the base of the disas-
trous Babine River slide north of Hazelton probably

1952 sockeye*run heading

for the spawning grounds.

 

10,000 went through and a lit-
tle over 8300 passed through on
Sunday.

“While the count may vary
from day to day, I believe the
vast proportion will get through
safely this year,” said Dr.
Pritchard.

Fisheries department officials
will remain at the scene until
the run is completed and engi-
neers will probably stay at the
slide through September.

Dr. Pritchard praised the “re-
markable engineering job” done
by Jack Dyson, regional engi-
neer attached to the Prince Ru-
pert fisheries office, who direct-
ed building of the 60-mile road
from the Trans - Provincial
Highway through wilderness to
the Babine slide.

“He has six bulldozers and
eight trucks working on the
road and
shape. Supplies and men can
get through in good time.”

Dr. Pritchard said the job of
removing an estimated 200,000
cubic yards of rock which slid
into the river will be a “tre-
mendous job and probably will

 

Four experts now are on the|pe done by contract.”

scene, They are:

Bell of Blaine, Wash., co

Dr. W. M.
Sprules of Ottawa, chief of the t

hrough and contractors will be
fish culture development of the hie to look r the site before
department..of.. eee siete = sae

ig|" pr. Pritchard fe well known in

“The department has the road

engineer well known in fisher-| 5 © ‘tor his work with the fish-

ies conservation work through-
out Canada and
States;

hydraulics department.

“The situation looks pretty
bright,” said Dr. Pritchard, who
spent the past four days on the
scene.

“Last year approximately 150,-
000 sockeye got through but
many were badly bruised.”

During the past week, he
said, 40,000 have gone through .
the counting fence just below
Babine Lake and “in a tele-
phone call last night, inspec-
tors report sockeye going past
the slide at a rate of 600 to
700 an hour.”

It takes the fish from five to
10 days to reach the countaing

the United
Dr. W. H. White of the
department of geology, Univer-
sity of B.C., and E. S. Pretious,
head of the University of B.C.’s

eries department having spent
14 years on the Queen Charlotte
Islands tagging and counting
salmon and started the scien-
tific investigation on the
Skeena.

He was instrumental in erect-
ing the counting ladder near
Babine Lake and prior to that
worked at the biological station
at Nanaimo.

“In- his present position he is
responsible for all fish culture
and fish protection — in
Canada.

-TIDES—

Wednesday, August 20, 1952
(Paeific Standard Time)
High x.ckcivo 1:01 19.8 feet
13:41 19.0 feet
7:24 3.1 feet
19:34 &.1 feet

TOW

 

 

thinks ‘‘armistice is po
faintest idea when.”

Flood Claim May

southwest coast may go

today officially declared
mouth disease. All restri
ago are removed, annou
Gardiner.

 

BULLETINS

Truce Possible—But When?

MUNSAN (CP)—Gen. William Harrison, senior
United Nations armistice delegate, said today he

ssible but | haven’t the

*. &

Reach 90

LYNMOUTH, England—Police warned today
toll from Saturday's devastating flood of England’s

as high as 90 dead. The

latest official casualty figures stood at 13 known
dead, with 28 missing and presumed dead.

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Canada Free of Foot-Mouth

OTTAWA (CP)—The Canadian government

Canada free of foot and
ctions imposed six months
nced Agriculture Minister

 

Soap Box Derby

Main Feature

 

Labor Day

The Prince Rupert Trades and
Labor Council is putting the fin-
ishing touches to preparations for
its Sports Day Sept. 1, heralded
to be the major sports event for
children in years.

Close to $360 has been collect-

 

ed from city merchants for

Sports Heralded Big Event

prizes which will be awarded to

Meanwhile, eight youngsters

winners of the various races and|are working feverishly on their
other competitions which will be|soap boxes for the Box Derby
featured throughout the after-| which will be the feature attrac-

noon of Labor Day.

tion of Labor Day. The derby is

Harry Harrison, sports day|sponsored jointly by the TLC,
chairman, is ih charge of ar-| Frizzell Motor Products and The

rangements,

Daily News.

anh

fence. Last Saturday more than |

it is now in good \

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