feet BUILDING — t steel girders rise from the ynstruction job on the vrairies ih UBCM CONVENTION — ground ng $16,000,000 into new hangars and other buildings. The project NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBLA’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL. XILI, No, 226 At Pulp Mill Prince George iJury Returns — PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1952 { FLASH! Fire Reported A fire call from Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. pulp mill at Watson Island was an- swered at 2:30 p.m. and a fire wagon dispatched immediate- ly by the Prince Rupert fire department. Further details were not known at press time, but it was learned that telephone lines to the plant went out at 2:40 p.m. The puip mill operates a | small fire fighting unit of its own. PRICE FIVE CENTS Council Can Make Its Own Recommendations Ald. Casey Suggests Promotion | PRINCE GEORGE, BC. @—| of Winnipeg’s Stevenson (CP PHOTO) Francois Peter Dennis, who says his memory was blacked out bys a hlow to the head, today await- ed sentencing for the death-by- motorboat which followed a homebrew party on shore of a! wilderness lake | Charged with murder in the} death of William Austin—and | Of Brewery in Prince Rupert with regard to the liquor situation. —____-—-® At a special City Council meet- jing last night, he said he had . |been asked by Attorney-General Prison Break — |\%*2,*3tes.% some General | organizations make known their {points of view for presentation Thwarted At Oakalla | sion. The three-man commission named two weeks ago to study George Hills, CCF MLA-elect for Prince Rupert, | is seeking views of organizations in this constituency is Manslaughter | to the liquor inquiry commis- Delegation to Oppose Resolution B« Delegates to the convention Mayor Harold Whalen, Alderman George Hills and City Clerk Bill Long—received instructions at a pecial city council meeting last night to oppose only one of more convicted last night on a reduc- ed charge of manslaughter — | Dennis will be sentenced at the jend of the fall assizes here. | Austin, 59, died Aug. 2 on The resolution, from North | Stuart Lake, 75 miles northwest Vancouver, asks that section|of here. Dennis, 39, was arrest- 257 and other pertinent sections |¢ed as he prayed in church at the of the Municipal Act be amended | settlement of Fort St. James so that councils may appoint ajafter Austin’s widow and 14- court of revision composed of|Year-old son told their story of than 50 resolutions drawn up not less than three or more than | for consideration five taxpayers of the municipal-| ity exclusive of the members of | death to the RCMP. WIDOW TESTIFIES Testifying in Carriere Indian VANCOUVER © —A surprise security check at suburban Oak-~- alla Prison Farm late yesterday thwarted a jail break, it was disclosed today by Warden Hugh G. Christie. Security guards discovered four hacksawed gate bars at the end of a long corridor. The gate led from the prison’s south wing where 60 prisoners are awaiting trial or transfer to the peni- tentiary. A prison-wide search failed to disclose any hacksaw blades. B.C.’s liquor problems is com- posed of Very Rev. Dean Cecil Swanson, Hon. H. H. Stevens, president of the Board of Trade, and George Holme, secretary of the B.C. Fed- eration of Labor. The commission will inquire into all phases of beer, wine and liquor distribution and sale and | has been instructed to report to. the government by December 31 on its findings and recommenda- tions for a new liquor law. Vancouver Phone 81 MLA Appointed to See City's Views on Liquo SIZE OK?—Cadet R. Bouchard of Port Alfred, Que.; tries on a winter hat of the Canadian Services College during the issue of equipment shortly after the arrival of a group of cadets at the new College Militaire Royal de St. Jean, Que. Fitting the hat is the council | dialect, Austin’s widow told the The committee would receive|court Dennis and her husband Statement E d J d emen xpecte |suitable remuneration for their|Quarreled during a drinking ° ‘ services and an appeal from the| party on the lake’s shore. That Nixon Will Stay court’s decision could be made | Two persons present at the ito the Mr. Hills, also an alderman, said the committee would be making a trip around B.C., al- though its itinerary has not been made up and that city council also could submit its views for consideration. He made his remarks after Alderman Mike Krueger said he would submit a resolution at the next council meeting asking that the city of Prince 4 Killed in Blast, Two ‘Still Missing PORT ARTHUR ()—A bomb- | Di vi S. Sgt. R. A. Benoit, Montreal, The college is intended primarily to meet the need for French-speaking officers in the armed forces. (CP PHOTO) British Warships Trade Fire With Communist Installations. council of the munici-| party, Michele and Catherine pality. |Morris, said Dennis and Austin At the present time five ap-|Wrestled and that Mrs, Austin pointed members of council’ are | and their son, Alfred, had board- lappeinted each year as w court }@d a -boat.and headed out into lof’ revision &nd no additional /the lake. remuneration is received Council, on recommendation (CP)—An anti-climactie offi-| expected possibly today to con- ade obvious by a Sweeping en- the Republican National| salad Austin’s widow said Dennis ¢ 0 thousands of Americans: ie Republie ° | t} Nixon's accusation that he is clamming up” about a fund raised for the Illinois governor The Democratic. candidate is ‘tanding pat on what said yes- eel- terday—it would be “breach of faith” to mame the key state officials whose salaries he said he had supplemented with do- nations from a special fund Kisenhower andi 1 Nix- an ven king Wa and on’ Canada’s Armed » Forces Reduced in had OTTAWA @-—Led by a sharp| that drop in army strength, Canada’s . 2 e pting | Military manpower tumbled be- | Civic Office } i ex.| low the 99,000 mark in August, Cali the Defence Department report BURNABY ()—Reports are cit ed Wednesday iculating here that the Social io7| The army dropped to its low~| Credit League plans to run can em.| est Strength in about a year—/|qidates in civic elections here p eached | 40:176—largely due to the dis-|and in other lower mainland xon charge of special force veterans | centre ; Leading Social Crediters back from Korea. Its strength at an vice-presidential | of Ald. Ray McLean, moved | that the city’s delegates— Mayor Whalen, Ald. George Hills and city clerk Bill Long —oppose the resolution. | A. resolution submitted by | Prince Rupert several years ago| asking that a representative) from each municipal organiza- ition be appointed to the UBCM jexecutive will be placed before the convention again this year | Other resolutions concern edu- \cation costs, unemployment, and various other municipal prob- lems, Socreds May Run For |neither confirm or deny these ia the end of July was 1,400 higher | reports t fast, thing ONTO S Weighin Kes of a n refined here, LLETINS 900 in Gold Stolen i (CP) Gold valued at $350,000 was Y at nearby Malton Airport, It was in 9 848 pounds altogether. Four ia old were not touched. Gold was nd for Montreal and is believed to than that. Total strength for three forces dropped from 99,067 at the end of July to 98,897 at the end of August. One prominent league member said Wednesday the possibility had been discussed but no de- cision had been reached. Tom Good, president of the Burnaby Social Credit constitu- ency said the matter “will pro- bably be discussed at the pro vincial convention to be held early in November.” Socred MLA’s Sworn in at Capital City VICTORIA ()—The belief that Premier Bennett will not call a general election this year was strengthened Wednesday with | arrival here of four Social Credit | Allied Workers Union to have} followed them for some dis- tance in his boat and then rammed them amidships. She said Dennis grabbed her hus- band by the hair and forced him into the water, saying: “I'm going to kill you.” Dennis, she said, lifted her husband from the water three | times and struck him. ; Fishermen Turn Down Latest Offer VANCOUVER ())-—Salmon fish- ermen from Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Wednesday reject- | ed a company price offer and| will continue the strike which started 18 days ago A union spokesman said votes | coming in from all other salmon fishing ports along the British Columbia coast “indicate a simi- | lar position in every instancé.” Vancouver and valley fisher- men are reported by secretary of the United Fishermen and voted for rejection “by a 99 per cent majority.” The secretary, Homer Ste- vens, said rejection of the offer was recommended by the union’s central strike and policy com mittee, This same offer was accepted by Indian fishermen represent- ed by the Native Brotherhood of B.C., who signed an agreement Monday with the Fisheries Asso- ciation, The agreement led to court action started Wednesday by the operators. Nine of B.C.’s largest canneries applied in Supreme Court of an injunction which would prevent striking fishermen from interfering with Indian fishermen. like blast killed four men and left two others still missing to- day, 24 hours after it shattered part of a grai nelevator, causing damage estimated up to $3,000,- 000. Fourteen men were injured, four severely, in the explosion and subsequent fire. Bodies of missing men are buried in tons of concrete and metal wreckage, at the Saskat- chewan Pool Elevators No. 4A terminal Dead: Steve Wasilka, 58; Peter Dye, 46; Philip Dorzek, 28, all of Port Arthur; Robert Deer, of Burnt Island, Conception Bay, Nfld Missing: A. Lobsiger and F. Zakunsky, both of Port Arthur. Polio Claims 23rd B.C. Life— Burns Lake Boy VANCOUVER ()—Polio claim- ed the life of a 14-year-old Burns Lake boy Wednesday, bringing British Columbia’s total fatali- Rupert receive a definite 7 tion of the profits derived from liquor sold in this city. ments in the city. profit.” spending city.” His remarks also brought ocmment from veteran alder- man George Casey who said he is going to bring in a resolu- tion also at the next council meeting asking the government to permit operation of a brew- ery here. FIELD FOR BREWERY He suggested the money be earmarked for general improve- Ald. Krueger said he realized the city receives a yearly grant from the government but “we 5 should get some of that liquor “It’s the people here who are the money in the liquor store and some of the profit should be spent in the He said a licence had been is- sued for a brewery in Prince George and “Prince Rupert is a good healthy spot for a brewery.” Ald. Casey did not say who HONG KONG (CP) —Two British warships and Communist shore batteries traded fire today after the Reds swarmed over a British-operated passenger vessel and forcibly removed two Chinese. Man Convicted Of Manslaughter’ Moon of Campbell River, B.C., standing trial on a charge of murder, was convicted yesterday on a reduced charge of man- Slaughter. Mr. Justice J. M. Coady re- manded him to end of the assizes for sentence. Moon was charged in the death here of William Valpe, 74-year- old roominghouse caretaker who died in hospital May 22 from effects of a beating the crown said was administered by the fisherman. The crown said that robbery was the motive for the attack and said a watch pawned by Moon for $5 belonged to Valpe. VANCOUVER @==Willt#th| ties to 23 Meanwhile, the province's total number of cases for the year rose to 345 with reports of four “| new cases. SYNOPSIS Clear skies prevail in all the southern regions of British Co- lumbia. Afternoon temperatures will reach the low seventies near the coast and mid-eighties in the southern interior valleys. A diffuse and slow moving disturbance moved inland over the northern coastal areas dur- ing the night bringing rain or drizzle to the Queen Charlottes and the northern mainland and cloud to northern Vancouver Island and the central interor. would build or operate the brew- ery but stressed “there is a good field for one here” nor did he say whether any group or com- pany has applied for a licence. He said the “brewery trust” in Vancouver prevented operation of a brewery in Prince Rupert “and if you could break that we could make our own beer.” Deep Sea Bass 2 Pounds Short Of World Record Probably the heaviest sea bass ever caught in this district has been weighed in the Rod & Gun Club Derby by Miss Betty Mar- tin. The bass weighed six pounds. An eight-pound sea bass is considered the world..’s record. Miss Martin caught her entry near the Prince Rupert dry dock on bucktail streamer. Latest coho entry was made by Dr. LMM. Greene, whose sil- Submarine Lost in Deep Water TOULON, France The * Commodore Harold G. Dickin- son, Hong Kong naval chief, said, the destroyed Consort and frigaté Mounts Bay tfeturned fire on Red shore batteries after they were fired upon following The passenger ship, Takshing, was raided about 3 am., some 10 miles east of the Portuguese Macau in a channel of “normal international traffic.” Communist shore batteries opened up from Lapsapmei, but the British warships were not hit, Dickinson said. IB. Veterans Ask Motorists For Quarters For 25 cents per year, the T.B. Veterans of B.C. offer the motor- ists of this province a service whereby their keys are returned to them if lost. With over 230,000 miniature automobile Llicence tags mailed out for the year 1952, only 118,- 000 motorists have returned their remittance, which means that many people are using the ser- vice for which they have not paid. The T.B. Veterans realize that a small matter such as this can be overlooked so they ask the indulgence of the thousands of motorists in B.C, who have not paid for this year’s tag to send their 25 cent pieces to the T.B. Veterans, Room 100, 6 W. ver weighed seven pounds, eigh' French navy said today the sub-| ounces. marine La Sibylle, missing with Hastings Street, Vancouver 2, B.C, Variable amounts of cloud as- sociated .with this system will drift slowly into the: southern coastal regions during the next 24 to 48 hours but no precipita- tion is expected. Southern in- terior regions will remain sunny and warm. | MLA’s to be sworn into office. CP) : | While some political observers P)—Eddie (Pistol) Dorohoy has |attached no significance to the _©0ach of Victoria Cougars in the |occurrence others contended Inad ‘i ; be ime rs wouldn’ , there (ada Hockey League, it was announc- | members wou dn’t have bothered f > 3 \travelling to the capital to be ‘Ucceeds Roger Leger, now with the 48 men aboard, must have been crushed to fragments by under- water pressure and sank help- lessly into the depths of the Mediterranean east of here, All hope was abandoned for the crew early today when a vast oil patch and bits of wreck- age floated to the surface of the sea at a point which is more than ets Coaching Post ‘Alberta Oil Free Fish Given to Vancouver Families in Government Test VANCOUVER @—The Federal government is feeding 64 Vancouver families free fish once or twice a month, The families are members of a government sponsored Open to British Oe aenath Ce Investment—Low | They met with Premier Ben-) VANCOUVER ()—Solon Low, nett after the swearing-in cere-|national leader of the Social Noval YUIS ork Records B.C. Tremors Forecast Cloudy today and Friday. In- ‘mony performed by E, K. De-| Credit party, said here Wednes- | termittent rain or drizzle. Little | 2,600 feet deep. fish-testing panel. Their job is to test the effect in freshness YORK (cp | Beck clerk of the legislature. {day that British investment in|change in temperature, Winds| What caused the La Sibylle to| and taste of different methods of handling. Ported ¢, ) — Two sharp earthquakes | Members are Thomas J. Irwin | Alberta’s oil fields is possible. | southerly 25 in the exposed areas, | plunge out of control toward the The fisa are caught by the Fisheries Research Board’s oday by a Fordham University | Delta; Bert Price Vancouver- | He said in an interview Brit- ist t light elsewhere. Low tonight and|sea’s bottom may never be| boat Tauganaga and the object of the experiments is to test ist. It is believed the ¢ q |Burrard; Rev. Harry Francis, | ain could find a way to become | high Friday at Port Hardy, Sand-| known. She failed to surface at! the relative merits of freezing the fish at various stages against Ost 6 north Se trove Seewrre Similkameen and R. O Newton, | financially interested if she is|spit and Prince Rupert, 50 and|9:30 a.m. yesterday after | simply keeping it cooled on ice ern British Columbia. | Columbia “really in earnest about it.” 60. toutine dive. ,