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XLI, No. 250 Lette Acheson # To Call For Peace UNITED NATIONS, N.Y (AP) ~American demands for a just and speedy peace in Korea were back up today by State Secre- tary Dean Acheson in an ad- dress to the UN General Assem- Oly 8 O0-member political mittee Mr. Acheson's aides said the speech to be made this after- noon probably would be the longest of his career, and that he would “open the whole book” on the deadlocked Korean truce negotiations including secret high-level diplomatic efforts to end the fighting Already before the committee | 48 @ resolution Mr. Acheson sub- ; mitted yesterday asking the as- sembly to endorse the armistice terms laid down by UN negotia- | tors at Panmunjom and to urge | the Communists to accept them New Poi Outlined For Douks VICTORIA (P)--A new pro- vinclal government policy on ithe handling of Doukhobor | problems is being formulated by ia special cabinet committee jheaded by Attorney-General | Robert Bonner | The committee met Thursday | was Professor Geoffrey Andrew vice-chairman of the consulta- tive committee on the Doukho- bor issue, and has already dis- cussed proposals with Doukho- com- \ HILL *® RICHMOND ® : /BTORONTO) “ my ot. Olea Borden, 72 miles north of Toronto, mys training set-up It also is a ing $1,000,000 a year to run. It ephone D PROVINCIAL al » News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBLA’s NEWSPAPER Education Parley Soon VICTORIA © ister Education Min- Tilly Rolston announced Thursday a conference on the controversial issue of educational costs Will be held Nov. 5 Attending the parley will be representatives of B.C. Teachers’ Federation, B.C, Federation of Agriculture and the Uniun of B.C. Municipalities. The meeting will be held in Premier W. A. C Bennett's office Britain Keeps Up in Race With A-Bomb LONDON London news- papers speculated today that Britain has overtaken the United States in a race to produce the perfect” atomic weapon Scientific writers expressed the belief that Britain has found the : secret, Of compressing the power of an ordinary sized A-bomb generally regarded as unwieldy into a charge small enough to be fired from an ll-inch gun or carried easily aboard a plane To back this speculation air ministry confirmed a state- ment made in Australia yester- day by a high RAF officer that all future British bombers would be made so they could carry the bomb Meanwhile, scientists have gone back ashore on Australia’s Monte Bello islands to survey elfeets of the atomic blast : system as well as ranges 4. representatives Recovery of recording instru- ix sehools for training officers, No announcement will be ments and significant salvage tradesmen.’ "Tank @nd other made on progress of the com-| materi mittee’s work because the gov- - ernment fears further Doukho- bor troubles if too much pub- licity is given the problem indy Salisbury Plain. (CP Photo) - * I et Anglican Missionary eral weeks, a supply } jannouncement said ministry ' Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—“P since Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1952 - Rail Freight R PRICE FIVE CENTS , ~ he lt nt eee PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, [= by VICTORIA, B. es Gyro Apples Support the Children’s Playground ate Boost Denied ’ Entire Application ~ Rejected by Board Present Rates Held just And Reasonable By The Canadian Press OTTAWA. — The Board of Transport Commis- |Sioners today dismissed a railway application for a general increase of eight per cent ia freight rates, j on? At the same time, it granted j partially applications for in- the if ia pm | ba north Atlantic a Letter Slots r isn. | SUBMARINE VISIT—-The United States submarine Grampus | pulls into Halifax harbor on a visit to Canada. The bow of the Canadian aircraft carrier Magnificent is at right. U.S. submar- ines and destroyers often visit. Halifax after exercises in the Urgent Need (CP from National Defence) Commonwealth ‘Division Retakes Hill | WEST KOREA ® — United Nations troops today consolidated | defences on Little Gibraltar Hill |after regaining it from Chinese | Communist forces. | After 20 days of heavy Red | Shelling, U.N. soldiers were driv-| ren off the big hill, about 15 miles | east of Panmunjon truce site! Thursday. They counter-attack-| ed seven hours later and dis-! lodged the Communists after a! | 45-minute battle. | | A Reuters dispatch from Tokyo) | today said U.N. troops ate from creasing some rates on grain in Western Canada, scaling down the railways’ proposed increases sharply. Two sets of increases would have grossed the railways about $43,000,000 a year, but today’s decision cut that down to per~ haps ne more than $2,000,000. Decision on the eight-per- cent case marked the first time the board has thrown out completely a railway ap- lication for a general rate in- crease since the start of post- war series of rate cases six years ago. In handing down the unani- mous judgment of a five-man board, Chief Commissioner J. D. Kearney said that conditions have not changed enough since the last rate increase in Janu- ary to require another general | the 1st Commonwealth Division, rincrease at this time. | which includes the 25th Cana- ! battle of the year, Enemy strength was estimat- He said the board came to the : | dian Brigade. The action was. re RA JUST described as the division's biggest | i conclusion that the “prevailing | level of freight rates are neither For House-to-House Mail /ed at a battalion. There was no| UNjust nor unreasonable.” Starting date of the house-to-house mail delivery al will probably take sev- system in Prince Rupert rests with householders. «. This was disclosed today with receipt, of a letter| by E. T. Applewhaite, MP for Skeena, from Post- | order-in-council has been passed. jestimate of Red casualties but jthey are believed to be heavy. 4 casualties were described as relatively light in view of the widespread action. rs ‘ ae | The grain increases apply to movement of that product with- in western Canada on the way 'to Canadian markets. They do no touch heavy traffic on ex- ‘Brain, covered by jowstatu asked for in- from two to 55 ual rates. The perth . The railways aeta : -¢ ide stat] ; '|master-General Aleide Cote, stating that the tinal Candidates : a ranging ed Bishop of Caledonia DD, of Toronto, will be the an Diocese of Caledonia, it at an elective Synod tatives of the clergy and laity provinee, terday the new bishop a one-day Synod ing which saw delegates arriving from points as far away us Peace River. Archbishop Sex- ton headed the list of prelates which was made al Synopsis A fresh outburst of Pacific air) moved Over the south coast last | night and is edging eastward | through the interior this morn- | ing. It brought rainfal] ranging from one-half inch to an inch in south coastal and lower main- land areas, Rainfall in the in- terior is considerably less than these amounts Skies are expected to clear to- day as a ridge of high pressure builds over the province and to- morrow promises to be a fine day in most areas with slightly warmer temperatures on Satur- ice cannot be inaugurated until! ; | field officers report 90 per cent , |of the homes and offices have |been equipped with i | boxes.” While Mr. Cote did not say 4 | when he expected the service to! slots’ or begin, it is not expected to start} | before the New Year The Civil Service Commission | is seeking letter carriers and has j}announced that application | | forms—obtaineble at the Na- |tional Employment Service or! jthe Post Office—should be filed | jnot later than Nov. 10 | | If the service is not started also included Bishop G H P,. Gower, of New We aaa day afternoon the Rt. Rev. Frederic Stanford Forecast of Kamloops, Bishop of Cari- Variable cloudiness with a few R boo and the Rt. Rev. F. P. showers along shoreline, ciear- Clark of Nelson, Bishop of Koot- ing this evening. Mostly clear ew} enay Parishes and missions Saturday, cooler. Light winds on| throughout northern B.C. were Low tonight and high tomorrow 1. B.| represented at Port Hardy 40 and 58; Sand- Most of those who attended ted for home last night | BAD NEWS FOLLOWS BIG FIND NEWTON ABBOT, Devon, England (AP)—There’s bad news on use the way for a Dutchman who found a £1,000,000 cheque in a VAs floating bottle. It was a joke Maj. John Evans drew the cheque to amuse his kids at the eashore last June, popped it Into a bottle, and threw it into sea off Teignmouth on Britain's south coast F. W. Van Houten of Noordwijk, The Netherlands, found it trav off the Dutch coast ipert Today Major Evans got a letter from Van Houten asking: ; What do I have to do now?” i ried | Evans is trying to dope out a tactful answer ‘ador to Find Agreement of Legal Status Mayhew's Job in Tokyo to Break WG AS How spit 42 and 58; Prince Rupert 41 ty | depar and 56 SIONARY ; Bog ee nai radie Japan returned to indepen- | dence six months age. While the endless diplomatic wrang- sides are sticking to their stands on the pivotal point of a complex issue—criminal jur- i Tos , ‘=| isdiction or who has the right ling continues, both sides con- BLO bye hake &) {9 try Commonwealth troops | duct @sy-to-day relations on } , eadlock’ for yarious crimes, the basis of common sense. 1 Cue { tt i ‘he Given agreement on that} With one exception, Japanese ~ point, it is felt here, the dilemma | authorities have -left Common- MM ¥, 72-year. | Would evaporate, wealth soldier crimes to Com-| ; ter who Meanwhile, Canadian, British,| monwealth military courts. The os is ex. Australian and New Zealand exception is the case of two Brit- eave,|ish sailors isoned by the ike t troops are in Japan—on leave,|ish sailors impr 0 fing ‘soe as reinforcements, in hospitals, | Japanese for assault and robbery, e 7 attached to administrative units, | a local case that snowballed into pee cerning | & . pet 9,000 « mais all in connection with the Kor-| an international issue, hs eluding about | ean war, In a nutshell, the argument is MP The Japanese have acquiesced | &'S A me Situation in their being there. But no 1, The Japanese say the Com- yi ele but in legal foundation governing |monwealth should accept in * sue, Both | their rights has been laid since | Japan the terms proposed for | Lords by November 1, the post office ' i } i } oes ye ny A department will not inaugu- Sie ti ee | vale 0 Galil Other ts Geeees Man., grandson = an Indien mas rush because it would in- | chief and a para rooper who volve too great a switch at won 10 medals fighting Chi nese Communist, German and Italian troops, is returning to | Korea for the second time at | ° his own request. Set. Prinve, veteran of Second World War campaigns in the Aleutian Is lands, Italy and northwest Europe, sailed first, for Korea in November, 1950, with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. In Canada on his return he was an instructor at Camp Borden, Ont (CP from National Defence) IN BOTH HOUSES Lord John Russell in his first term as British Prime Mnhister in 1846 sat in the House of Com- mons; later in the House of + such a busy season. W. J. Burgess, the postmaster ere, that he will make a check of homes here “within the next few days” to see how many householders have proper places for mail. PREFER SLOTS He stressed, however, that postal authorities prefer slots to announced this morning} boxes and urged that al! citi- zens who have not already made provision for the service take immediate steps to do so so that the service can be instituted. A circular will be sent But, the letter said, “the until bg aks ae ao Urge U.S. Aid : to ; everyone within the next two weeks asking them to submit full names and addresses so au- | thorities may complete a list for| —@nd lead them—in the struggle carriers. The survey conducted in this city in the latter part of August showed there are about 2, places where mail will be de- livered. ; Under the letter-carrier sys- tem, mail received by air about mid-day or earty after- noon will be delivered the same day of arrival to busi- ness establishments and to portions of the areas covered by afternoon walks. Other areas will receive this mail the next morning. There has been no that already have letter slots or how many householders have had them installed since it was disclosed last month that car- rier service had been requested. Sudden Death Claims Founder Of City Wholesale Company Thomas McMeekin, former founder of the wholesale pro- | duce company here bearing his ; name, died in hospital last night }10 days after the death of his Deadlock wife. He was 77 years old. Mr. McMeekin had been ill only a few days. Born at Kelvindale, Scotland, | he received his education there use among the Atlantic Pact planners—that foreign troops are tried for military offences | by their own military courts but ces by the country in which they ces by the country n which they are serving. (Generally, host countries don't exercise this pri- vilege but it is there.) 2, The Commonwealth coun- tries say they want the same privileges as those given United States trooops who are now im- mune from Japanese courts and Will be until the U.S. Senate rati- fied the Atlantic Pact agreement on mutual treatment of foreign troops. Once the U.S. accepts this lesser immunity, say the Com- monwealth countries, so will they. and in 1905 settled in Saskatche- wan, Where he farmed for four years. He arrived here in 1908 and first went to work for Lynch Brothers in one of the first gro- cery stores in Prince Rupert. He started a grocery store on Third Avenue, next to the Royal Bank ot Canada, the firm being Wil- liams & McMeekin, In 1919, Mr. McMeekin assum- ed the business and continued to operate the store until 1927 when he formed the wholesale produce company. Always interested in civic af- fairs, he served as an alderman in the early 1920s and at one time was @ member of the school board. . Mr. McMeekin also was a |alderman, pioneer resident and/ member of the Chamher of Com- merce, the Masonic Lodge and the Prince Rupert Club, He Was married here in 1915 to the former Catherine Stewart. Mrs. McMeekin died suddenly in her sleep on October 13. Mr. McMeekin is survived by two sons, Thomas A., and David, and two daughters, Mrs. R. H. (Catherine) Wilson of Terrace, and Mrs. F. J. (Margaret) Cear- ley of this city. A brother, David, lives in Glasgow, Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday from First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. E. A. Wright officiating. CHICAGO .—Leadership in the National Hockey League was | two shared by three teams last night as Chicago Black Hawks dead- locked Montreal Canadiens 2-2 before a crowd of 7,186. The two teams moved into a | } | increases should ange from one ‘to 13 per cent. Free Nations NEW YORK (AP) — The two ;}major presidential candidates’ © |say the United States must con- ; tinue to hélp the free countries } against Communism. |’ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, | Republican, and Governor Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate, addressed the New York Herald-Tribune annual | forum. residential 7 report | made on the number of homes! | Eisenhower, who spoke direct- jly to the forum session here, | urged “a new economic alliance lof free nations” to confound | Kremlin predictions of ecomonic doom for the free world. Stevenson, who delivered his | address from Chicago, said the U.S, should lead in developing a “coalition of free nations strong | enough to remain the masters of | their destiny” and meet Com- munism’s threat. He said such a coalition could not be built: without full-time American par- ticipation. The two candidates’ 15-minute falks were relatively free of| campaign politics. | Eisenhower called for “a sub- stitute for the purely tempor- ary business of bolstering the free nations through annual handouts” which get “neither permanent results nor real friends.” The theme of the forum was “Building Leadership for Peace,” and both candidates saw Com- munism as the challenge to peace. “With experienced and dedi- cated leadership, we shall meet this new challenge of Godless tyranny,” said Eisenhower. “Then and then only cam we look for- ward to an enduring peace and a great destiny.” Stevenson said leadership must be borne by the U.S. and added: “We must be strong until the enemies of freedom are ready and willing to join the free nations in honest disarmament.” NEW COMMISSIONER — Sir Douglas Copland, noted Aus- tralian economist and wartime prices commiissioner, has been appointed Australian High Commissioner to Canada. He was Australian . minister to China 1946-48 and then ap- pointed vice-chancellor of the newly-formed Australian Uni- versity at Canberra, He was born in 1894. (CP Photo} Shipwreck Search Abandoned KETCHIKAN (AP)—Searchers have abandoned hope of finding alive any of the three persons aboard the tugboat Timberman when she went aground last Saturday night. Wreckage of the 62-foot craft, owned by Clarence Purdy, has been washed up on beaches near Point Camano, 20 miles north of Ketchikan. Besides Mr. Purdy and his wife, Dick Flanders, a 40-year- old logging camp employee, was [aboard when the tug left here. Hockey Leadership Shared by Three Teams | The Hawks had to rally for) of the first period on a solo job /mateched a pair scored in the | opening session by Maurice Rich- third-period goals that/and again at 5:31 off an assist from Butch Bouchard. Other hockey: jard, who has been shut out in en Ze Sees 6; six league games up to last night. | Saskatoon 1, gary 3. * Richard hit twice in slightly; WHL—Nelson 2, Trail 4; Spo- tie with idle Detroit Red Wings. | over five minutes, at 27 seconds| kane 4, Kimberley 6.