yRpROW'S DES— rime) 16.2 feet 18.2 feet 9.3 feet feet 10, 1952 igation Today R. — Cone vaging’ the iy cruise ship atnieen will be United States bers decide the hip can be re- sal- to | ind h mnform tanding as| U.S. wat- | Oliver Wil-| ie Canadian ervice { epared to-! ito Davey} etermine } Kathleen can be} | final | - nm é unday | i jered a hore | | unk. | ‘ a the was to warn off ge crash said equipment esman jon | 1 1 wnenevel leems it ial aid wa the y of ipright. I = ibllit 0) feet 130 feet nal Ligations i inking ne by the } D i. ae hOPSLS lin west pI producing | ¢ f south- ( ia, Rain points be- and the northern of the vely free j lal improve- during the } er south as the noves out icinity A ntering the ing cloudi ern coastal is recast ing over af- udy Wednes- . increasing ednesday af- ght and high Hardy 40 spit 40 and 60; ind 60 ilot IGs Fit. Lt Ont » if k toy Ernest , today was ying a Com- North Korea running. pilot on ex- 1 the U.S. Air Salted with de-| Red MIG's and | others CAF cre i 4and William Russell Jackson, VISITS AIR BASE Air Marshal W. A. Curtis. ~ lett) Chief of Canada’ Air Staff, apie an honor guard of Canadians at the headquarters in France of US. General Lauris Norstad, (right) head of the Atlantic Pact air force. Behind are two of Canada’s top airmen, Air Vic® Marshals Roy Slemon (left) and John Plant, both stationed at Norstad’s headquarters. Air Marshal Curtis is overseas to see Britain’s exhibition of airpower at Farnborough and check prepar ations to field an air division of the RCAF in Europe by 1954. (CP from National Defence) Che Dail Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’ VOL. XLI, No. 212 PROVIN CIAL % emma VICTORIA, B. C. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1952 ee eR Vote ‘Yes’ on T elephone Bylaw Installation of a automatic telephone Prince Rupert is Mayor Harold Whalen said today as he again urged ratepayers pass the $675,000 bylaw voted on this Thursday ‘Maintenance costs of present obsolete set-up are modern system. in to to our eat- ing up practically all the reVenue | from one of our best assets. ‘Wooden: Ke y long overdue,” | be | “If we don’t endorse this by- law, it will not only be a back- | ward step in opr present pro- gressive city, but a disgrace,” said the mayor. He said that although there has been some criticism of the cost of a new system, “council, as the elected representatives of the people, has endorsed the by- ‘law and its now up to the people Used by Jail *: Escapees; $26,000 Posted By The Car vadian Press TORONTO.—A wooden key believed used in the ATHER— ‘escape of four desperadoes from the Don jail was found today behind the plumbing in the cell«of one of the men who sawed his It opened the cell doors and police think it may have been made in the jail carpentry shop Another development, Reforms Minister John Foote announced was the suspension of Alexan- der Noble, deputy governor of the jail, and a reprimand 01 jail governor T. W. Brand The four desperate men, one | hobbling on one foot, squeezed through the severed bars of the jail window, inched along an 18-inch-wide wall and dropped 15 feet to freedom The escape in yesterday's pre- dawn darkness has produced ithe most intensive manhunt in Ontario's history and the mak- ings of a first-class fight be- tween the city and province Two of the escapees Steve Suchan and Leonard Jackson, were soon to go on trial for the murder of a Toronto detective, Eddie Tong All of the four were charged) with a number of bank robber- les The*® others, Edwin Alonzo Boyd, generally believed to be the mastermind of the gang,| no kin of Leonard. Leonard Jackson's escape ed a bizarre touch, mindful of his escape from the same jail with Boyd and Wil- liam Jackson last November, ‘has grown agile since he was add- | Officials, | way out yesterday. crippled, in a railway accident some years ago and limped to freedom. $26,000 POSTED A total of $26,000 is posted for | Sa ys Mayor; New System ‘Overdue’ to give them the go-ahead sig- nal.” The bylaw calls for purchase of the old Government Liquor Store at a cost of $32,500 and Automatic Electric Company of Canada, which has been awarded the contract pending approval by the ratepayers, is prepared to begin construction of the sys- tem immediately. The new system will be one of the most modern in America CANDIDATES ” Also confronting electors this | Thursday is a by-election to fill} the vacancy left by the resigna; | tion of Harry M. Daggett, newly- | appointed city assessor. Seeking the seat are Raymond | A. McL@an and Ray Gardiner. Mr. McLean, 29-year-old pub- lic accountant, was born at East Selkirk,. Manitoba, and received his education there. He was as _|sistant postmaster.in his home town before moving to Terrace in 1942 as paymaster for Carter, Halls & Aldinger on the Terrace airport construction job. He came to* Prince Rupert in 1944 as an accountant with the Northern B.C. Power - Company the “ re p é Se ve eqearened OC remained with that firm Bankers Association has pul UP) ynti1 December 1948 when he $10,000, the province $2,000| went into each with the city announcing | Morris Bridges it would meet the provincial re- ward dollar for dollar. Allan Lamport said: Mayor today early Our police took every secur- ity measure that was within their power but it was the hu-| man element appointed by failed us The place was so Wide open they could have walked out the | front door. All that was wanted was a cocktail bar,” among the staff the province that 90 Go Down With Steamer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia ( Ninety persons drowned today when a storm overturned the River Danube steamer, Belgrade radio reported, Thirty persons who jumped overboard as the vessel started to sink were saved, Others on board went down with her. siness Men Seek Meeting With g Officials to Solve Problem ll be given to ‘ctor of Union Lid to explain Of Commerce any intends. to P with more free yice to Prince Dé fe Company ipany to officials Rupert tid Prince Steamships cut ay boat service immer, city }grocers and wholesale fruit and vegetable dealers have com- plained they could not get enough fresh produce to last for the week on other boats. Getting enough fresh milk also was claimed a problem. Last night Phil Lyons said “The for the better—as a matter fact it is worse, if anything. of situation hasn't ehanged, “At least 75 per cent of city grocers are not selling any milk in that time because it doesn’t | keep. I think this situation con- cerns everyone, because we have to charge the consumer with ‘eur losses. We cannot assume the loss of spoilage ourselves.” Mr. Lyons, who operates a “We have nothing for the last| grocery store, asked that E. T. three days of the week to offer | Applewhaite, MP for Skeena, at- our ,customers in the way of|tend the meeting which would fresh produce and milk ‘hear Union ——— officials. | Red, 3; Roderick, with and Bob Rudder partnership ham. Mr. Bridges resigned from the firm two years ago to accept the position of office manager at Columbia Cellulose pMnt at Port Edward. Mr. McLean married the for- mer Dogeen Cain of Edmonton in 1946 and has three boys 1, and 11-day- /old Daniel. UNION MAN Mr. Gardiner was born in Prince George in 1926 and re- ceived his education in that district. He came to Prince Ru-| pert in 1952 and worked in the} shipyards until the end of the war when he went to work for the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative. Mr. Gardiner, who is unmar- ried, lives with his mother here. | He also has a married sister, Mrs. W. BE. Smith in Prince Ru- pert, and another married sis- ter, Mrs. M. B. Brandner of} Prince George. It was shortly after taking employment with the Co-op that Mr. Gardiner became ac- tive in his union, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, holding various posts until 1948 when he was elected secretary of the local post. He has been a delegate to the Prince Rupert Trades and Labor Council for several years and at! present is a member of the ex- | ecutive board. Misseuri Pieces EDINBURGH CP)—A collection of tartans left by the late Mar- = nent nei ROVINCIAL L IBRARY wa PRICE FIVE CENTS 2B Bail Out PHILLIPSBURG, Mont. bailed out of an air force Safely as the Prime Minister to press for construction INDONESIAN ADVISOR—Dr. Crashing Air Force Bomber & trouble near this western Montana town Monday. All landed big bomber crashed and burned. Chamber Urges Pressure For Large Land Airbase St. Laurent’s hag further stimulated action by city business men Safely From Thirteen crew members B-29 that developed engine + | | Business Endorses Phone Bylaw The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t believe enough publicity has been given to the by-elec- tion and telephone plebiscite on which electors will vote this coming Thursday. A motion was passed at last night's meeting of the organiza- tion (the first after summer re- cess) endorsing the telephone bylaw which, if passed, will give the city a new automatic dial telephone system. President T. Norton Youngs, said however, that “I’m not in of Transport calling for “action | favor of it because I think tele- as soon as possible” in provid- phones should be left in hands ing a landing field here on “the | of private enterprise.” best site for a long range pro- gram.” | A meeting of the executive | council tonight will draft an aa- The meeting decided it would : vertisement endorsing the pleb- name no particular site of the |iscite and calling for electors to possible ones in the Prince Ru- vote “yes.” pert area. “It is up to the department of UK visit to this city of a land airfield here. [| Chamber of Commerce en- dorsed iast night President T. Norton Youngs’s presentation to Mr. St. Laurent of a written resolution asking for the air- port. “And I think we should fol- low. this up further,” said Mr. Youngs. The meeting empowered “the executive to draft a resolution to be forwarded to the Minister transport to pick the site which is most suitable for the best H. B. Higgins has been ap- | airbase possible,” said one mem- pointed head of a_ United | ber. Nations planning bureau whiek> > <3} is expected, however, that}. : For will advise the Indonesian | the choice for ar airport will lie government on banking, tax- ing and other economic prob- lems, Dr. Higgins formerly was chief economist for the UN technical assistance mission in | | | Ont., between Tugwell Island and Digby Island. Ridley Island, a third site, has been abandoned by the DOT because of its near- ness to a mountain range. Rail Ties VANCOUVER (@®—British Co- Libya. A native of London, “I think we can take it from|/Umbia lumbermen hi to sell he is on loan from MeGill }the Prime Minister's remarks to|°hemically treated rallway ties University (CP Photo) | the city council Sunday that he |‘? the United Kingdom, it was IWA Pickets Arrested by Court Order VANCOUVER (—Arrest of 17 union membérs in connection with picketing of a freighter during British Columbia's sum- mer lumber strike was ordered Monday by Chief Justice W. B Farris in Supreme Court. He ordered members of the In- ternational Woodworkers of America to appear before him next Monday. He ruled they could be released on $500 bail each before appearing in court. The shipping company obtain- ed an injunction July 15 against ithe union to prevent picketing of the Motor Vessel Vedby at | Nanaimo Sheriff William B: MacKenzie of Nanaimo said in court he had jread the injunction to picketers | but they had ignored it. He add- ed that a request for help from the RCMP to disperse the pick- |ets had been ignored. “There has been apparently a willful violation of court orders,” is imperative that appear before me to explain their stand.” Aiden ‘Bids 8 Cents For B.C. Salmon VANCOUVER ))—A union of- ficial said Monday an American buyer has offered striking Brit- ish Columbia fishermen eight cents a@ pound for chum salmon —2% cents more than offered by B.C. companies. Between 3,000 and 4,000 fisher- | men struck Saturday midnight. They want last year’s prices for chum— 11 cents a pound, Homer Stevens, secretary of j the United Fishermen and Al- the thief justice said. “I think it | these men | reported here today. B.C. Lumber Manufacturers’ Association is paying passage, for two British railway engineers to come here and see the ties being cut and treated and to talk to engineers of the Cana- dian Pacific and the Canadian National Railways. Lumbermen say they have per- fected a process whereby hem- lock is preserved and its unde- Sirable features are overcome making it possible for the wood to be used to make good ties. The two engineers are Col. H. B. Everard and Walter Rothwell, both of the nationalized British Railways. is now most interested in our | problem and that pressure for an airport from this city is ex- “pected,” said Mr. Youngs. Members agreed that no time should be wasted in making strong representations to the de- partment of transport, referring to the Prime Minister’s visit here. “In that way we can’t be ig- nored,” said a member. Nanaimo Tory Spurns Socred Offer NANAIMO (CP)-——-Dr. Larry Gio- vando, Progresive-Conservative Member of Legislature for Nan- aimo, said Monday the Social Credit party had offered him a cabinet post if he-would join the Social Credit. He quoted two party members as saying if he made up his mind to switch his party alleg- iance before Sept. 18, Social about the Vancouver-Burrard Credit would cease to worry recount since its strength in the Legislature would then be 20 against the C.C.F.’s 18. | (Dr. Giovando’s statement }caused speculation that Social /Credit might call a general election soon or that it might be looking for a “safe” seat for one of its two non-elected cabinet members.) Dr. Giovando said the members told him ~two DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Special City Lots Slashed To 50 Per Cent of Value Several Changes Listed In Land Sales Policy Price of single city lots located between two privately owned lots will be slashed to 50 per cent of the assessed value, effective immediately. This is one of the changes in policy outlined at city council |meeting last night by the fi- |nance committee. Ald. H. F. Glassey, acting ‘committee chairman in the ab- \sence of Ald. Mike Kreuger, list- ‘ed two other points “which will be the policy of the city in ‘connection with the property.” They are: The city will not sell any property which, after the sale would leave less than 11% lots sale of -unsold. This measure is being taken because of a former pol- icy change discouraging any fu- ture home owners building on less than a lot and half of frontage. City lots are 25 feet wide. The city will leave open to purchase by anyone who makes a bidding of the assessed value of a lot or lots adjoining or ab- butting another’s property, ef- fective Oct. 1, The view in this is that “owner of the property adjoin- ing vacant lots has had ample time to make a bidding for the additional property,” said Ald. Glassey. This policy was set, he said, because arguments had occur- red in the past when property owners maintained they had the first right to purchase city land adjoining their own. On. the price cut of. cht tween’ two’ privately” owned pieces of property, Mr. Glassey said that formerly the lots had been sold for two-thirds of their assessed value. “We hope this will encourage more taxpayers to buy up the vacant lots and improve them,” which was endorsed unani- mously by the council. It was also suggested that property owners each buy half of these lots if one did not want the entire lot. Senior Railway Lawyer Arrives Norman J. MacMillan, vice- president and general counsel of the law department of the Canadian National Railways, arrives here tomorrow on the CNSS Prince George to spend the day. He expects to leave by Lord David Stuart to the|sidered. He declined to identify Edinburgh National Museum of) the buyer. Antiquities, diced bonnet. Articles include a} | Fraser River. not an He said he had turned down the offer. “How could I abandon people who. elected me as & Conservative and go into the Legislature as a Social Cred- iter?” he asked. “T don’t speak that language nor approve of that kind of politics.” In Victoria, Premier W. A. C. Bennett said any proposal ‘lied Workers’ Union (TLC) said|Dr. Giovando was made without quis of Bute has been presented |the American offer will be con-| his knowledge or consent. “At no time have I ever dis- .}cussed the matte with Dr. Gio- Meanwhile, 27 boats maintains | vando,” the Premier said, “nor lowland blue bonnet and an early | ed floating picket lines along the|have I thought of such a pos- sibility.” they were “official” delegation. the eerie to | east by train on the same day. ANXIOUS VIGIL—Sleeping fittully on an emergency hospital bed at London, Ont., Barbara Bolton, 18 months, is watched anxiously by her cousin Jacqueline Anderson, 5. The two were among 11 persons to receive treatment at the hospital following a three-car collision near Thamesford, (CP PHOTO) | ste age toi Es ae wh