Ford » Bucking oe run ee Injured, Thrown Horse in Movie actor Gientl Ford, 35, was nen thrown from a horse he was boy film ib several cuts and possible balked, Ford was thrown and AT OO St bey Opposes ALCOA to Use B.C. Water p 1 ritisn Press « Russ Troops - To Remain “In Manchuria Columbia’s former lands Monday strongly opposed any | ( iter for the use of an Alaskan | | | j es 4 se LIGHTHOUSE STRUC River near Windsor, Ont., was heavy fog. The Light's marin NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’ VOL, XLI, No. 218 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1952 seek through 17 per cent. ~ original application. * struck by a freighter during a e observer, J. E. MeGuire, was Stabbin RAILWAYS TAG 1 PER CENT ON RATE BOOST APPLICATION PRICE FIVE CENTS ' OTTAWA ©,—Railways, now seeking a general increase of » 16 per cent in freight rates, will boost this application to 17 per cent next Monday, it was learned yesterday. The further one per cent would yield them an anticipated gross of $5,000,000 a year on top of the $80,000,000 which they Carriers have given notice to the Board of Transport Commissioners that they will ask for the additional one per cent when the board on Monday begins hearings on their U.S. Planes Damage ‘Enemy’ Raider in Huge War Games _ ABOARD USS WASP WITH OPERATION MAINBRACE (AP)—Sixteen United States planes engaged in the west “Mainbrace” manoeuvres claim- ‘Acquit Byrne’ In Address to unpredictable.” He made the request during a 45-minute charge to the jury after Byrne had taken the stand in defence of a charge of wound- ing with intent to do grievous bodily harm. In rebuttal, crown counsel Gil- bert Hogg admitted evidence of Mrs. Beynon at this trial dif- fered from that at a prelimin- ary hearing last March 7 but DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 g Case Nears End Says Lawyer Assize Jury Mr. Justice Norman Whittaker began his address to the jury at 2 p.m. The case is expect- ed to go to the jury later today. Defence counsel Angelo Branca today urged a 12-man Assize Court jury to acquit Peter John Byrne of a charge of wounding Vera Beynon “be- cause the evidence in the case is so contradictory and the party after he was struck with a bottle. He said he took Mrs. Beynon to his mother’s for tea about a month ago “because she wanted to see my mother and apologize for the trouble in which ’ he was involved.” Mr. Hogg said he should have a better reason as he had ad- mitted that his mother had no ed today to have damaged an “enemy” raider as the tossed into the river when his frame office went over the side A Justice obe rorestry | ts Make b Kili onth i | Lid EST 11 MINUTES | EVER LIVED’ | Synopsis | LONDON @-——Red China has agreed to let Russian troops stay in the Manchurian naval base of Port Arthur “until such time as yeace treaties” are concluded by China and Russia with Japan,” Tass broadcast from Moscow d early Tuesday The communique was issued it, the end of top-level talks be- tween Russian and Chinese lead ers which opened in Moscow a nontn ag The Chinese communique said Red Premier Chou En-Lai ‘ isked Soviet Foreign Min- ster Andrei Vishinsky if Russian roops could stay in Port Arthur because “conditions dangerous for peace and favorable for a repetition of Japanese aggres- on” had arisen These conditions, the, com- munique said, follow Japan's re- fusal to conelude an “omnilat- joral’ (nyultilateral). peace treaty following conelusion. of a sep- treaty with the United States and several other coun- ries, as result of which Japan emingly does not wish to have , peace treaty with China and Russia - __WEATHER— Clouds are spreading over much of B.C. this morning from la disturbance now crossing the {Queen Charlottes and |} Panhandle, Rain from the sys- item has been confimed so far to ithe more northern sections of | the coast and the northern in- | terior. With the direction of the |system expected to be north- east, it is unlikely that appreci- able precipitation will fall any- | where in southern B.C Temperatures will be a little during the daytime be- eause of the cloud but overnight temperatures will drop as much as they have been doing and frost is not expected anywhere in the provinee tonight cooler Forecast Intermittent rain along the mainland, Cloudy with sunny intervals and occasional showers elsewhere, Little change in tem- perature, Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy and Prince Rupert 50 and 60; Sand- spit 50 and 65 | permanent inspection, Alaskan | but he was able to swim back to the lighthouse. He clung there ° By The Can VANCOUVER—Fede | “success” Monday in clear | salmon-rich Babine River. | It was the end of a 10-month j battle. When the 300-foot cliff | collapsed into the Babine a year jago, blocking the passage of | thousands of sockeye it was a | disaster for the fishing Industry. | The slide threatened the Live- | lihood of many persons im north- ;ern. British Columbia who are dependent on salmon runs, ) | Babine tributary produces he@it of the Skeena River sockeye valued at several million dollars annually. From field that the slide is being success- | fully cleared and that clearing work has opened up a little- known migratory. channel to By blasting and Tock removal, engineers have cleared, small side channels for fish, first of the 1952 run to arrive An estimated 155,000 of the to- tal run of 500,000 sockeye now have arrived at Babine Lake spawning grounds However, there is a big job ahead. Permanent clearing of the slide itself must be complet- ed before high water in spring. It is estimated that total cost of the clearing fob will be around $1,000,000. | Typhoon ' Hits Wake Island HONOLULU (.--A raging ty phoon with winds up to 140 miles an hour lashed tiny Wake Island yesterday, demolishing living iquarters and communications and sent the sea crashing over ithe entire island Mountainous seas and torren- jtial rains battered the island, |which is only 15 feet above sea jlevel, all afternoon, subsiding ‘only late at night for more than an hour before being rescued Engineers Clear Disastrous Babine Slide by Blasting men came word; (CP PHOTO) a The 16 planes from U.S. air-| craft carrier Franklin D. Roose-| velt located the “enemy” ves-| sel last night 50 miles from the! task force. Role of raider in the) hig naval exercise by eight North | the Canadian cruiser Quebec. | A vast fleet of 160 ships and | more than 80,000 men is in- volved in a test of Allied opera- tion plans. From this armada, a §2-vessel task force is moving northward in the North Sea. At the heart of the force are three of the world’s biggest carriers, Rritain’s Eagle and U.S. ships For Treaty Midway and Roosevelt. The Quebec represeiits a fast-moving With Russia attacker seeking to pick off TOKYO ®—Japan is ready to|@apital ships in the force. conclude a peace treaty with Russia any time as long as ‘the iterms are the same as or better | than the San Franeised ‘Treaty. )a foreign office spokésman said | | today. adian Prese ral fisheries men signalled ‘ing the giant slide in the Japan Ready ~~ Fishermen- Set Sept. 22 As Deadline VANCOUVER @® — A union Vernon Grocer Heads Social oa aio tha Fae ae pe Credit League | | | |British Columbia fishermen jagainst the Fisheries Associa- big international task force set powerful air-sea blows to eliminate a threatening warship, Atlantic countries is taken by! —’ THREATEN HOMELAND — Homeland of this attractive Indo-Chinese girl is troubled by civil war, as Communist- led..Vietminh guerrihais try: t6:' gain control of the country. She wears the fetching cos- tion. VERNON, B.C. @® L. Hugh| After that date, said the Shantz, Vernon grocery store|Spokesman for United Fisher- proprietor and member of the/™en and Allied Workers Union Legislat for h Okanas /(TCL), fishermen would “feel egisiature for North anagan,| tree” to sell fish to other buyers, has been named new president | including Americans, if no agree- of the B.C. Social Credit League,; ment had been reached. | . it was learned here Monday. He} The union spokesman said fish replaces Labor Minister Lyle| Would be sold to may! buyer who Wicks who stepped down when|“ ould pay between eight and 11 : jcents a pound, he assumed his cabinet post | Health Minister Eric Martin, vice-president of the League, also resigned his position at aj} board meeting last Thursday, it was rcported, but it is not known who replaced him. Executive positions are held only until the general conven tion when members either con- firm appointments or elect new officers J. O. Bates of Nelson, and Iran Monson of Vancouver, were ask- ed to the board to bring it up to strength. Murder, Suicide Ends Wedding Plans LAS VEGAS, Nev. (CP) — As friends made plans for an elab- orate wedding for them a young |couple—apparently honeymoon- ing—was found shot to death yesterday in a lavish penthouse of the swank Flamingo Hotel. loding Japanese Mine Dangerous Job SANDERSON ne has Pacific erman, officer Navy on hed the D of ex Bnd ited on ise iy rusted ou M Ct condi- 5 0 miles wr Rupert on : of Dun- estad, a ha. , % the navy “AT Colin Drew c “eon Satur- | Luse of , * Tough seas We ather were lish 4 ine mine Ment Gem * ne Aerman | The demolition experts were flown to Rupert. by the RCAF, then taken to Boat Harbor, a small cove on the northwest side of the island, by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Transporting secret bomb dis- posal materials, the men reach~- ed the shore by rowboat, then trudged through jungle land and over dangerous rocky pin- nacles to. locate the mine in a | tiny cove. After’a careful examination of the mine, the men figured out best means of destroying it, Lt. Ackerman “laid” the charge that shattered it and Seal trees and rocks hurtling through the air at terrific speed for hundreds of feet. } | One piece of a log weighing jabout 200 pounds was found |/more than 700 yards from the \Scene of the explosion. A huge estimated to weigh ' at \least 75 pounds was located at lanother spot 500 yards from ithe scene. No pieces of the mine were re- covered. The huge “object” which looked like a big red ball and contained more than 350 pounds of high explosives, went off with a terrific crash exactly 11 minutes after Lt. Ackerman lit a fuse to touch off the demolition charge. | rock, The two men sat on a soft clearing of muskeg about 1,000 yards from the mine and watch- ed as thousands of pieces of shrapnel, trees and. rocks whistled into the bush around them. The explosion was preceded by a blinding flash and a huge white cloud of smoke floated from the scene over the island Officers said muraer and sui- cide Was indicated, although no notes were found. Investigators were without clue to the motive. The man was identified as |Adrian Lionel Grodnick, 19, son of Manuel Grodnick, wealthy 'New York clothing manufactur- er; the girl as Betty M. Baron, |25, G@aughter of William Baron, Los Angeles apartment-house manager. Then the men returned to ex-| Friends in Los Angeles said amine the “remains.” There} the couple had planned a formal was nothing but a large hole| wedding in Beverly Hills, Calif., filled with water, surrounded by) next Tuesday. a neatly cleared patch of rock and land. and disappeared into the dis- tance. | | FAMOUS RIVER “That was the longest 11 | The Nile River stretches 4,000 9 |miles from its source in Africa minutes I’ve ever lived,” said me : Lt, Ackerman, as he waited to the Mediterranean. for the charge to take effect. If the first attempt to ex- plode the mine had failed, he would have approached it to | re-examine it and place a second charge. | “But,” said the officer, “we! could hardly fail in this case. The mine was in a perfect spot) to work with.” Both Lt. Ackerman arid PO Drew have taken part in mine (Continued on Page 2) of coal miners Sept, 22, coal or anthracite miners. tume pecular to the women of Indo-China. It> consists” of ~a silk coat, fitted with tight bodice, slit at the waist, and ankle-length. Beneath are worn silk bell-bottom trousers. (CP Photo) Seaman Killed In Collision, Little Damage ' VICTORIA ®—One Japanese seaman was killed when the Greek freighter George D. Grat- sos and the Japanese freighter Taikyu Maru collided in a dense fog off Sheringham Point early today. Brief messages from the two vessels, intercepted by Gordon Head wireless station near here, said that neither ship was be- lieved seriously damaged, and both were proceeding. to their destinations, The 7,176-ton George D. Grat- sos Was reported bound for Port- land, Ore., from Vancouver, B.C., while the Taikyu Maru. 6,872 tons, Was inbound from Japan to Seattle, Wash. The Greek vessel firsf sent out a call for assistance, the wireless station said, but later cancelled the call after examination of damage. NARROWEST POINT England is 21 miles from the continent at its nearest point, but the north of Scotland is 400 miles distant. Lewis Calls on Miners to Prepare for Possible Strike WASHINGTON ()—John L. Lewis today summoned his United Mine Workers policy committee to meet here Monday to review contract negotiations and prepare for a possible strike There are 320,000 soft coal miners and about 65,000 hard told the jury that “you may find she was telling the truth as she saw it.” “The fact remains,” said Mr. Hogg, “that Vera Beynon was stabbed in her home when there were only the accused, herself and her two little chil- dren.” BYRNE TESTIFIES Under questioning by Mr. Branca, Byrne said he had been living with Vera Beynon prior to February 14, date on which she is alleged to have been home. beer and half a bottle of rum. alone and I was taking off.” » Ona have a few drinks.” where I was going. taking off.” Byrne said she attempted to prevent him-from taking’ his club bag and finally he push- ed her toward the bed. “She got mad. She picked up a beer bottle. I was trying to get away when she hit me over the head and knocked me down.” His next recollection of the incident “was about 10:30 in the morning.” , He told the court he did not know what happened to the other three people in the party. He slept on a chesterfield in the living room and went to the bed- room to ask Vera how she felt after he awoke. “I could see blood on the bedclothes and she had fallen down the stairs. It looked as if she had fallen on a nail. The wound was gougea but it was not bleeding at that time.” 1 saidt’m doctor.” any time. Mossadegh Wins Su, port Of Parliament TEHRAN, Iran ()—Premier Mo- hammed Mossadegh today won a parliamentary vote of confi- dence for his policy in refusing to yield to British and American proposals for settling the Anglo- Iranian oil dispute. vindicate Iran’s rights.” oil, stabbed during a fracas at her He admitted that on the night in question he drank “20 or 30 glasses of béer” at a downtown beer parlor, went home about midnight and helped consume -jan additional eight bottles of He said he was “mad at Kathy White for leaving the children artiving at the-home, he said Kathy White and two friends were having a party and although he intended to leave “they persuaded me to stay and “Vera came home about 2 a.m. She saw my bag and asked “She asked me to call the He said he did not stab, nor attempt to injure the woman at Under cross examination by Mr. Hogg, Bryne said he didn’t know how a knife, submitted as evidence, got underneath Vera’s bed, nor did he remember talk- ing with any other members of Majlis (legislature) voted the support after hearing a long statement in which the premier threatened to “go as far as to sever relations with Britain to Mossadegh once more turned thumbs down on.a U.S.-British proposal for referring compen- sation claims of the nationalized Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to an international court, and re- opening negotiations with the company on marketing of Irau’s previous knowledge about his relations with Mrs. Beynon. Byrne also denied that he had shown Dr. &. M. Greene, wha attended Mrs. Beynon, where “Vera fell.” “Dr. Greene told me to sit on the chesterfield in the living room and I stayed there. I never left the chesterfield.” Dr, Greene testified on Mon- day, shortly after the trial got underway, that accused showed him where Mrs. Beynon told him she fell injuring herself. APOLOGIZED Mother of accused, Mrs. /ose- phine Byrne also told covrt on Monday that “Vera Heynon apologized to me for causing such a scandal. “She came to my hous: ... Peter was with her... und said she was sorry she had caused so much trouble.” Mrs. Byrne said it was the the woman and her son to have tea with her, Mrs. Byrne told the court. swear in court against Peter, but her mother wanted her to, and would disown her if she 'didn’t,” the witness went on.* “f told’ hér to just tell the truth. She told me that she did not know who stabbed her. She said it happened in a fight. A taxi-driver testifying for the defence said he had taken two men, “one white, the other a native’ from Cow Bay to 1446 Piggott Avenue, residence of Mrs. Beynon, at 2:30 in the morning. (Continued on page 5) No Clues in Gang Search Baffle Police TORONTO (—Fear of gang- land vengeance may be keeping the Toronto underworld from | tipping police on the hideout of the Boyd gang. Senior police officials said yesterday that absolute lack of information of any kind from tipsters and petty criminals who usually are willing to talk to police was the most baffling as- pect of the search for Edwin Alonzo Boyd, Steve Suchan, Wil- liam Jackson and Leonard Jack- son. There was no progress yester- day in the intensive country- wide search for the four, all accused of bank robbery and two of murder. f Police are pinning their hopes of a break on lack of money forcing the fugitives to make a move. . B.C. Swimmer Feared Drowned POWELL RIVER (Olympic swimmer Leo Portelance, 23, of Ocean Falls, B.C., is feared to have been drowned after he disappeared while boating alone at his summer camp 10 miles south of here. No trace of the swimmer has been found since his boat. Was sighted overturmed Sunday in Douglas Bay. ANCIENT SPORT Greyhound racing originated in Egypt, at least 1,000 years be- fore horse-racing. ate “Vera said she didn’t want to’