PPROW'S iDES— 1952 rime) 15.2 feet 17.2 feet 6.5 feet 10.8 feet VOL. XLI, No. 213 a i's contribution to the United Nations’ general assembly building New York are seven doors, designed by a Canadian and using Canadian /} copper, zinc and niekel was created for the doors, each of which es high, 40 inches wide and valued at $10,000. Architect Ernest Cor- ner, is at right CP PHOTO) — Sought by Cannery ‘Workers Inverne cannery is on the] when there were sufficient stu- Skeena River about four miles | dents to warrant sending a this side of Sunnyside | teacher to the site. To get to school, pupils have} jeanwhile the board is going been walking along the Cana-} ahead with plans to build a new | ‘}dian National Railways tracks| schoo] at Port Edward to ac-7 and parents feel the practice is} eommodate pupils in that dis- too dangerous, especially for be- | triet , ginners The nool by ut *| the day is ihe winter ict board operated a ator) at the cannery seve ral years ago} site and is preparing. a sketch ———-~-«e== | for approval by the provincial ° department of education. ion Clamors For The board wants to construct ; ; school with six classrooms. and | is activity room : At present, 24 children in OVa 0 @a | Brades 8 five and six at Port Ed- } ward are transported to Borden , ‘ ves inns ; 4 . Street. schooi here each day be- \L (CP) —The Gazette in a front-| cause of lack of space in the says a petition demanding the re-| converted army hut being used ( — Co as ee : :. |as a school. sanks, Canadian director of the While enrolment on _ school ternational Union (AFL), is being|openine day, September 2. was not as great as the board had ormer union members who claim to ‘expected, officials believe the i tures, ——_—————| total will pass the 1,600 mark in the district before too long ‘aims to be New Atomic Some students engaged in ial elected ifishing during the summer ntment four jmonths are late returning to cvesument tour Tests Planned is: 1 ector placed| WASHINGTON’ (AP) The} Four teachers were added to p 0,000 mem-| Defence Department and the! the total in Prince Rupert dis- ship” list Atomic Energy .Commission vee trict this year bringing to 61 are forbid- | nounc ed Tuesday a new serieS| the number now on the pay- to hire any! of atomic weapons tests will be! roll, Two additional teachers this list held at the Eniwetok ar were added at Booth Memorial \ Bank | grounds in mid-Pacifie this fall. High and one each at King 5 inks does} ‘The announcement said new| Edward and Conrad. nbership to| tests will be “toward the eek: Out of the 26 teachers at te meetings, | opment of atomic weapons.” | Booth, 17 were on the staff last ents are is-| However, there have been re-! year. : ‘men placed) ports that at least some pre- ip” list must | liminary form of the hydrogen | There are nine new- faces, in- it their own | « 1000 | {cluding Tomo Naka, 26-year-old hell” bomb, | reputedly director. | tinea more powerful than a’ {graduate of the University of oo é f . w ‘vailable for|nuclear fission weapon, may be | Saskatchewan, here he majored physics and mathematics. He \completed his teacher-training course at University of B.C. last year Two graduates of Booth are among the new teachers. They are Gordon Calderwood, who completed his studies at UBC, and Donald Hartwig of Prince Rupert a graduate of Eastern Washington College of Educa- tion. Other néw faces are: Raymond tried out 5 Worst Polio Epidemic es Peak, Says Victoria Health department officials said Monday *ak Of British Columbia's worst polio epidemic V'dely-seattered reported last i a cases during ©. Hill, industrial arts teacher, ‘bal Number cases for B.C, ngw is 262, Dr. G. F. who was at Dawson Creek last ; health minister, said. year; Ugo Gallo, Powell River; ho new deaths, Dr. Amyot said; Total deaths ing ot 91 at 21, | T. R. MacLeod, Vancouver; (Continued on Page Ev- 5) An architect has visited the | PROVINCIAL | LIBRA RY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER Pickets May Greet Movie Fans Tonight VANCOUVER (CP)—Pickets in- | stead of usherettes may oui Vancouver today. Striking film exchange em- ployees said last night that un- less a wage agreement is reach-| ed by theatre-opening time with | six major firms they will throw} picket lines around theatres} showing “hot” films. Film Exchange Employees | Union, representing 33 workers | on strike since August 16, said} other theatre employees have | voted to refuse to cross picket | Resold by Government OTTAWA (P)—The Emerald tungsten mine near Salmo, in | | the West Kootenays, has been} resold to Canadian Exploration! Limited by the federal govern-| ment. { The Defence Production De- | partment declined to disclose | the sale price, but it was learn- | ed authoritatively today that| profit of a “couple of million | dollars” was made by the gov-/| ernment on the deal. | The government operated the | mine during the Second World | War and after hostilities ceased | sold it to Canadian Exploration. With the outbreak of hostili- ties in Korea, the government asked Canadian Exploration to} resume production of tungsten but the company said it could not because of the price and? other factors. The government then re- | puchased the original mine, | which formed only part of the | company’s property. Since then the Canadian position has eased, said an an- nouncement from the De- fence Production Department, “therefore the government de- cided to sell the Emerald property back to Canadian | oe Limited. e The mine camp is on the summit between Sheep Creek j}and Lost Creek, eight miles by, |road from Salmo and the mill. | ee | Fall Assizes To Hear Four Crime Cases | Four criminal cases are sched- | uled to come up at the Fall} Assizes opening here next Mon- day. | Two men face charges of mur- der, one will be tried on a charge of wounding and the} fourth man is charged with for- gery. Vernon Elgin McMaster is charged with murdering Greco Laurenzo, a Public Works De- partment roadworker at Hazel- ton, and Duncan James Lolly is charged with murdering his | wife at their Pendleton Bay cabin on Babine Lake last July 22, Peter Byrne, 32-year-old Prince Rupert fisherman faces a charge of wounding Mrs. Beynon here last April. His trial was tran- versed from the Spring Assizes. | In the fourth criminal case, Joseph Cassidy of Lower Post, faces four charges of forgery. customers at most theatres a Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—‘’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1952 VANCOUVER © here It is reported, however, the June 12 —Provincial council of the British Colum- bia Liberal Party will meet here September 17. Sam McCrea, first vice-president, issued a meeting call Tuesday but gave no details of the agenda the prime job will be to select a leader to succeed former Premier Byron Johnson, defeated, in PRICE FIVE CENTS Needed to ~ QRMES “RUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 B.C. Hospital Insurance Arrears Suspended By $ B.C LIBERALS CALL MEETING IN VANCOUVER FOR NEXT WEEK creds Current Premium Only Qualify By The Canadian Press VICTORIA. — Provincial government has de- cided to suspend arrears of persons who have been provincial election. The meeting will be attended by one delegate from each of the 18 federal ridings, provincial officers, MLA’s elect and unsuccessful candidates in the June election. delinquent in hospital insurance premium payments during 1949, 1950 and 1951, and will permit them to re-establish themselves with payment of the current B.C Mine Mine | FLOWERY GREETING—Roses were exchanged by Vancouver's Mayor Fred Hume and Prime Minister St. Laurent when the Prime Minister stepped off a Laurent, who arrived in Vancouver for a two-day visit after touring the central portion of for Vancouver Island. From there a visit to Prince Rupert and “whe Northern B.C. coast. area was scheduled as a-non-political trip. premium. Health Minister Eric Mar- tin, in making the announce- ment Tuesday, added that after a two-week waiting period, ‘|these persons will become fully eligible for hospital benefits. “Tt should be noted that this is a suspension, not a cancel- lation,” the minister said. “Main consideration in bring- ing this policy into effect is to allow persons presently in de- fault to re-establish themselves with the service.” The. government feels some persons may be staying out of the plan due to inability to pay large arrears which they have accumulated over the last three years, Mr. Martin said. Persons who cannot pay their arrears, | due to their low income, will not |\be asked to do so, he said. Salvage Men Hopeful to Save Liner VANCOUVER (P)—The bat- tered, sunken cruise ship Prin- cess Kathleen has been turned over to insurance underwriters. by the Canadian Pacific Steam- ships coastal service. They will decide if the 6000- ton ship now in 130 feet of water off Lena Point near Ju- neau, Alaska, is salvageable. Victoria and Seattle salvage experts are “quite hopeful” the luxury liner will sail again. They will fly to Alaska from Seattle Thursday morning. “We're quite hopeful of sal- | Capitol Hill Retaken by South Koreans train at Vancouver. Mr. St. British Columbia, later sailed (CP PHOTO) Search Continues as Police Follow Clues in Jail Break TORONTO (CP)—Search for master criminal “dwin Alonzo Boyd and three of his henchmen went on today, reaching into cities and towns hundreds cf miles from Toronto where the four escaped from Don jail Monday. While police moved swiftly and in force to run down every tip, the Ontario government an- | ‘nounced a royal commission in-| vestigation into the sensational | break of the four men, all ac- | ¢used of bank robbery and two |}of murder, | Armed police set up road | ‘blocks and checked dozens of} cars. They raided houses in| many centres after reports from | | citizens they had seen men re-| sembling one or more of the | four—Boyd, Steve Suchan, Wil-| | liam Russell Jackson and Leon-| ard Jackson. Jacksons not = lated. | Yesterday, Ontario and Que- | bee police scoured both sides of the Ottawa River in the vicinity | of Hawkesbury after a woman} drug store clerk said a man} answering Boyd’s description | had bought hair dye from her. Her report. was tied in with another from Masson, Que., 14} miles west of Hawkesbury, that Boyd had been seen there. Quebec police also searched | | the vicinity of Grenville across | the river from Hawkesbury. LIMITS VOCABULARY | Basic English simplifies the | English language by employing | only 800 words for all norenal purposes 50 Canadians WASHINGTON (AP) —Attor- ney-General James McGranery announced Tuesday .the arrest | of more than 50 Canadians in| Detroit on deportation warrants. | They are charged with. ob- taining immigration visas by) fraud. McGranery said he has di | “visa Face Deportation from U. Ss. rected Philip Hart, United States attorney at Detroit, to begin immediate grand jury presentations in all cases. McGranery said Hart will also present evidence of parts play- ed by Roy H. McBride, Windsor, Ontario, bank official, and two consultants,” Mrs. Mar ; was an outgrowth of Canada’s | nal code. tin their charge and then threw back counter-attacking Chinese at daybreak today. In five days of vicious close- in fighting for the central- front hill, troops of the crack Capital division killed or wound- ed at least 2300 Chinese, the Eighth Army estimated: Fighting for the hill produced the heaviest Communist artil- lery barrages of the war. . The US. Kightlt “Air Force said that fighter-bomber pilots last night knocked out 100 Com- munist supply trucks, highest score since early June. First Atom Traitor Due Germans Repay Jews For Freedom | ivxeenern To ay — : $821,400,000 compensation to the LONDON (CO—Dr Alan, Nant |worid's Jewry to make up for tomic traitor, is due for release Nasi persecution. Fete rison in December, a The agreement was signed by Home Pines spokesman said to- West Germany's Chancellor day. Pp Konrad Adenauer and Foreign SEOUL (CP) — South Korean|the area infantrymen recaptured Capitol|storms for the rest of the Hill in a wild night bayonet | world.” vage, otherwise we wouldn’t be going up there to examine her,” said Harold Elworthy, president of the Island Tug and Barge Co. of Victoria. “The whole thing hinges on the weather,” he said. “That’s where. they breed —WEATHER— Synopsis ‘ Cloudiness is quite general over most of British Columbia except southern Vancouver Is- land:.and parts of the Lower Mainland. A minor disturbance moving south from. the Gulf;of Alaska brought a little light rain to the northern coast and a cloud cover to the central in- terior. A few showers are ex- pected in those areas during the day. There is little indication of much change over the southern regions. Forecast Cloudy today and Thursday. Occasional showers. Little change in temperature. Winds light except southerly 20 in the exposed areas of the Queen Charlottes today. Low tonight and high Thursday at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Ru- Minister ‘Moshe Sharrett of May, now 41, was convicted : : ‘ Israel. in 1946 of giving information | about British atomic research to T Wi Q H OLDUP. 5 Russian agents and was sen- tenced to 10 years. His arrest Spy probe. By December he will have served 642 years and will he, | eligible for freedom under good- conduct rules of the British pe- \ An armed bandit held up bandit ran from the bank and pert, 40 and 60. OF MONTREAL BANKS NET THIEVES $7500 MONTREAL—Two banks were held up here today. Three gunmen held up a branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and fled with $6,000 the cashier in the head office of the Imperial Bank of Canada and escaped with $1,500. The disappeared in crowded street. Power Cut-Off A brief interruption in power supply will oceur Thursday be-| tween 1 and 2 p.m. to allow a| | changeover in the Cow Bay sub- | | station, Northern B.C. Power Co, Ltd, said today. The brief power cutoff will af- fect main circuits only, said T. B. | Black, general manager. a guerite M. Prest and Mrs. ‘altho | Steingerwald in connection with securing of passports. Three of those arrested Tues- | day are being held in Detroit} jail, McGranery said. Others have been released on bail or parolled pending final decision cases. | Box Derby which was run off over 12 other entrants BILLY WATMOUGH is the proud winner of the Labor Day Soap here to climax the Trades and Labor Council sports celebration The 13-year-old racer won out Vote ‘YES’ For Modern Telephones Thursday ~~