WINTEL eer in Waterton National Park near wasn't happy about being disturbed he season's first snowfah. 1 ell the intruder to leave. (CP Photo) n Projects Aided ritish Investment Prem ‘ dian ’ tain, though short on dollars, is on Canada’s aluminum future. that May a : h men Canadiar aluminum . industry have been kept a secret. There was only an announcement that Britain was earmarking $40,000,- 000 for Canadian development ; The full amount is three times %* higher the snada Arvids Kitimat the Canada | abiminun Britain's biggest supplier and likely will remain 80 far some years, even though Britain is showing interest in an African Gold Coast development For 40 years Britain had plans to make Geld Coast one of the world’s great aluminum producers. A London dispatch Tuesday said she may put the plan into effect next year. Britain entered the Canadian development when Korea brought a critical shortage to the essential metal, used in gir- raft production Morn he has lent will be paid back in 20 years and dur- Acseg~ ing that time she will have first call on Canadian production OPTION ON KITIMAT She has an option on the first 250,000 tons produced annually by company, either at Arvida or Kitimat. The option means she can forego the purchase, but she has made a definite com- f; mitment for that amount an- nually for the next two years In Montreal, Aluminam in- dustry officials said the Af- final rican Gold Coast aluminum project calls for an eventual production of about twe-fifths the size of Kitimat’s produc- tion target. rounds but Damage eight They noted the ultimate Goid Coast production aim is 210,000 year while the monster bound Kitimat development aims at a round) capacity of 500,000 tons an- | eavy fog | Mually | Poin She | Officials of Alcan said their tons a no ap-' company has an interest in the ! African development RRB eG eR nt for oil, the surveyor comes first, Some- ‘Os walking knee-deep in snow covering 4 ‘er of surveyor Bill Kozma, who is locating bulldozers which will blaze the trails for (CP PHOTO) ' movement Che PROVINCIAL D) NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBLa’s NEWSPAPER ag ? we ve Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"P ince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL. XLI, No. 277 Solon Low Hits at Coldwell Charges ‘Cesspool Methods’ in B.C. Campaigning OTTAWA ‘Solon Low, Sodial Credit leader, and M. J. Cold- well, CCF leader, clashed Tues- day in Commons over statements mace during recent political campaigns in British Columbia Mr. Low charged the CCP leader with “sinking into a vile type of campaigning” that had no place in Canada. Mr. Coldwell, he said, was guilty of using “cesspool methods,” Mr. Coldwell offered to pre- sent proof of charges he had made in his British Columbia speeches. Speaker Ross Macdon- ald said rules would not permit Mr. Coldwell to reply at this time “I will do it on a future occa sion,” said Mr. Coldwell We will be prepared to meet you head-on,” retorted Mr. Low Mr. Low said Mr. Coldwell was quoted as saying the new Social Credit B.C. cabinet was steeped in racial prejudice. He also was quoted as saying that the Social Credit movement through its leader Solon Low has displayed anti-Semitism and racial dis- eTrimination Mr. Coldwell interjected he had referred to the Social and not to the B.C government Mid-State Blizzards Claim Six CHICAGO © Wind -whipped snow clamped a paralyzing grip| over wide sections of the mid- western United States today stranding travellers, closing schools, and blocking roads At least six deaths were al tributed to storm conditions, Al- most a foot of snow Was record ed in some towns Kansas and Nebraska, where blizzard conditions prevailed in some areas, apparently felt the greatest impact Two Women In Ike's Cabinet NEW YORK 0 President - elect Eisenhower has named two vomen to his cabinet. Mrs, Oveta C. Hobby, Houston Texas, was named head of the Federa! Security Agency and Mrs Ivy Baker Priest, of Bountiful, Utah, was named treasurer of the United States Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the Republican National Com- mittee, has been named as post- master-general (Millions of years ago the western plains were covered by | an ocean, The sea and. the or- | ganisms in it are the souree of today’s rich ol! fields, This story oll formed and tells how was describes the underground struc- ture in which off ts found Editor) By FORBES RHUBE Canadian Press Business Editor The oil driller is a fisherman. He fishes in old seas which, in North America, once covered most of the continent from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean These old seas came and went —perhaps as many as 15 times and formed many shorelines. They did what today’s seas do: | built up reefs along their shores j and silt fell from the water, In those seas were tiny liv- ing organisms of many ‘kinds. These lived and died in count- less billions, and the silt cov- | ; ered them. | phe silt fell until it was a lmile or more deep. The newer silt pressed on the older silt, and Credit | ' As Parliament gets underway at Ottawa, attention every- PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.,, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1952 New Ship To Replace ‘P Dead Named In Comox ‘Plane Crash | COMOX, BC i ® —The grim giz h | Job of searching for the dead /{continues at the scene of crash lof a Lancaster bomber Eight men—seven RCAF per- , | Sonnel and one civilian died | late Monday as the big plane | crashed in a swamp near here. | ¥O. R, F. Johnson, Springhill, f hersag pilot, and FO. M. J. Wright arte as re , {of Vancouver, co-pilot, were ea owt A aoe : thrown clear. They were report- irkland McLeod, 62, Montreal |eq in “fairly good” condition in industrialist, has been elected | hoepital here president of the National i The dena Council, Navy League of Can- " . - ‘ ada, at the annual meeting in | FO. J. N. Doucette, St. Louis, Toronto. He succeeds David PEL; Fit.-Sgt. J. L. L. Maynard, Gibson of Toronto. (CP Photo) Courtenay, B.C.; Cpl. G. E. Flet- id cher, Courtenay, B.C.; Cpl. F. A. McKay, Comox, B.C.; AC2 V. J. Escape Artist. it isn nega! Ac we Nabl ! After Smith, Lunenburg, NS5&.; ; . | MacLeod, Vancouver and: Chilli- $a ; ; | ee Citizen's Tip VANCOUVER €P)—A picture, Settlement: abies 2. i | in a crime magazine led Tues-| | day to the arrest of Robert Car- Or hi bh | roll Walker, who escaped from rou e an Oregon jail nearly five years 0 / k Si | ago while awaiting trial on an ut 00 oon assault charge : ven OTTAWA (CP)—The outlook in City police, accompanied by) . te Pts two PBI agents, nabbed Walker | C@nada'’s big railways wage dis-| after getting a tip from an un-| PUte—a° settlement or trouble! identified citizen on the rails — should become | | Walker escaped from an Ore- ee ee Se ee Oe. : Deadlocked for four months! gon city jail in January, 1948, on wages and other issues the, after recapture following a pre- ; : " ta ; ne @ pre-| railways and unions represent-| vious escape. His first escape ing 260,000 non-operating em-| occurred en route to jail when ployees will receive this week | he was in handcuffs ; a, m : ration LONDON ©.—Five policemen | ©B0e5 were bitten by a stray Alsatian The recommendations are ex-| 'dog brought into the Walham) Pected to be made public —e Green police station by a boy.| day. it is expected they will be The canine used its teeth on the! Placed before a meeting of the) sergeant, sub-sergeant and three general negotiating committee constables as they tried to put it of 17 rail unions convening in into a kennel Montreal the same day. rd dealing with diffeér- | j DAILY NEWS FEATURE PRESENTS | CAPITAL WRITER- OTTAWA DIARY” where is focussed on the nation’s capital. To keep its readers informed on the gossip, rumors, activities and personalities which make up the background of important national develop- ments, the Daily News has arranged to carry “Ottawa Diary,” a daily feature written by the well-known political correspond- | ent, Norman M. MacLeod } A member of the parliamentary press gallery since 1926, Mr. MacLeod has had close acquaintance with every prominent figure in Ottawa since the time of Arthur Meighen. His political contacts cut through party lines. Mi. MacLeod is a member of the clubs where many of the country’s affairs are settled. He has travelled abroad wifh government leaders to attend such meetings as the Empire | and economic conferences in London, and the Foreign Ministers’ and NATO conferences in London, Paris and Brussels. UN meetings in San Francisco and New York are also recorded among his assignments, as well as a trip to the | Korean war | His “Ottawa Diary” starts on page 2 of the Daily News i today | Fishing for Oil in Underground Seas the older silt, under the weight,, water, near Edmonton. | turned into stone. Canada’s first big oilfield, | The bodies of the tiny organ-; Turner Valley near Calgary, is| isms, mixed in the silt, gave off in limestone of another period.| microscopic bits of oil. It is called the Madison and is | In the aggregate, they gave| as much as two miles down. off a lot of oil. | | There is more than oil in the The oil tended to rise to the! limestone. There is gas, which} surface. Much of it was dis-| also comes from the bodies of} persed and lost. Here and there,|the ancient organisms; and | however, it was trapped by/ there is salt water, probably re-| stone. ;}maining from the old seas. In Western Canada, in many; Gas is the lightest of the three places, it found its way into|and ordinarily rises to the top,| limestone formed, under pres-| with oil below it, and water | sure, from coral reefs, | below the oil. i The coral reefs were formed} However, sometimes the gas | just as coral reefs are being) and oil are mixed ‘ogether. | formed today—by skeletons of; Sometimes there is gas and no | creatures that have died. It is| oil. Sometimes there is only | called Devonian limestone and) water. Sometimes there is | may be about 35,000,000 years) nothing. | old. | At Leduc the Devonian lime-| the report of a Federal cometh | The Council of French Life in | He also is professor of philos- | ophy at Laval University and PRICE FIVE CENTS ——-« | To Sail in ; | | ; Depends on Session B.C. Premier £y a 4 is MOST -VALUABLE—Vince Maz- 24a, powerful] 27-year-old middle | Assures New amas ascent | Election Soon trophy as most valuable and | sportsmanlike player in the Big | ICTORIA (CP)—Premier W. A. Four football union. He joined |c_ Bennett, fiushed with the the Ti-Cats in 1950 after Yuf- | success of his political gamble falo Bills folded. He started as 'in Columbia and Similkameen left outside with the Bengals, | by-elections, Tuesday reassured won a spot on the Canadian | British Columbians there will Press 1951 all-star team and be another general election next + this year switched to the | year. middie 59m SCP Photo) |" “rhe Premier paid it must te clear to everyone that a 19-man government cut to 18 by ap- pointment of a speaker, “does not fit in with our responsible type of Democratic ment.” He said the date of an election session. The WEATHERMAN: Says cloud and fog cover most of the coast. In the interior there is cloud and very light snow in the northern section, while in the southern sections it will be sunny in some areas today. Cooler air is spreading down the lower Fraser Valley and is clearing much of the fog from that area, Temperatures will Be slightly colder in most regions tonight. PROMOTES FRENCH — Rev. Paul Emile Gosselin, 42, is secretary of “Le Conseil re la vie francaise en Amerique’— America. It is an organization devoted to the survival of French culture in America. Abbe Gosselin, ordained in | 1934, was the leading organizer | of the third French-language congress in Quebec last June. Forecast Cloudy today and Thursday, occasional light drizzle tonight. Little change in temperature. chaplain of a half-dozen Ro- man Catholic groups in Quebec. (CP Photo) Fire Razes Prairie Town and 42; Sandspit 40 and 45: Prince Rupert 35 and 40. LONDON @® — British coins, ee ~, _.| Particularly two-shilling pieces MERDOW ae Seek. ’ _jand half-crowns, are heavier Fire gutted seven business places! than those of Canada and the Tuesday on the main street in/ United States. As a result Cana- this town, 160 miles northwest|dian and American servicemen of Saskatoon. Damage was es-|'" Britain are said to be finding timated at $200.00 | that money literally makes holes |in their pockets. The blaze broke out in Pear- ath on govern- | will depend a lot on the coming | A ridge of high pressure cop- tinues to dominate the weather Picture over the province. Low Light wind. Low tonight and! high Thursday at Port Hardy 37) DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 1955 : the Canadian National Steamship Prince Rupert || sailed into harbor here today just as she has done | for nearly 40 years, but almost at the same time that | she docked it was announced that her days in west coast passenger service are numbered. ® The CN is going to get a new ship to replace the Prince Ru- pert, it was announced by Don- ald Gordon, chairman and pres- ident, in Montreal today. Mr. Gordon said in a special dispatch to the Daily News that “following a careful appraisal of the shipping situation on the soast and the industrial de- velopment, actual and potential, centering upon B.C., this de- cision has been reached.” No definite information governing the size or cost of the new steamship will be available until discussiens of plans are completed, but “all possible haste” will be made to have the new ship in service by summer of 1955, The company is thinking in terms of a vessel generally eomparable in size with the Prince Rupert but of modern | design, said Mr. Gordon. | ‘The Prince Rupert, which has |been in several collisions duting jits long time of service on, the coast has had no very serious accidents Many passengers sail~ ‘ing in and out of this port have | a fondness for the old ship which ‘will never be forgotten. ' ©. A. Berner, superintendent of the CNR here, said: “Leame upon her as a.boy, in sengers siice then.’ ing a grounding near Ripple Rock last month. Girl Strangles Baby With Cloth in Mouth SEATTLE @—A high school baby sitter, who said she lost her temper when a four months old boy she was tending wouldn't stop crying, strangled him Tues- cay night with a cloth she stuf- fed in his mouth, police said. The girl, Ellen Noreen Fern, 15, was caring for Garry Payne, son of her next door neighbors. “He wouldn't be quiet,” the girl told police. “I lost my temper, grabbed a striped cloth, and shoved the rag down his throat. He shut up all of a sudden.” The girl is held by police as a “delinquent.” son's “Five-to-a-Dollar” store. A strong wind spread the flames to other buildings. area than Leduc. Other formations are wide- spread with dome-like tops. In such cases the water, being lower, extends over a wider area. The driller may hit into the side of the formation where there is only water. Several western disappointments now are known to have been such near+misses, Later, oil was found nearby. - Sometimes oil occurences are called oil pools and people may get the idea that oil is found in big underground caverns, This is not so. “Pool,” as applied to oil underground, is not the same as “pool” as applied on the surface. The oil is held in the small holes, or pores, of the stone which has trapped it. In Dev- es eS 0D 1914. Bhe’s carried a lot of pas- | Above the limestone, in many| instances, was an impervious shale and when the oil entered the limestone, the shale pre- }yented it from getting out. It is still there. And that's what makes an oil field such as Alberta's Leduc and Red- stone reef’ is 800 to 1,000 feet|onian limestone these spaces |thick. In the top of the lime-|may range from microscopic to | Stone is a maximum of 240 feet| the size of your thumb. In /of gas, and, below that, only! sandstone, in which some west- ; 38 feet of oll. The rest is water.) ern oil is found, the spaces can | Golden Spike has 600 feet of scarcely be seen. : jreef and all of it has oil; but) | the field covers a much smaller! (Continued on page 6) When I expressed wonder that MAKE EARTHQUAKE—Modern methods of searching for oil use highly-developed technical skills, These workmen are members of a seismic party. They are tamping down a charge of dynamite placed in a hole, to create a miniature, artificial earthquake. The vibrations caused in the earth are recorded on sensitized paper by instruments on a nearby truck A study of these reveals whether the area is promising, (CP Photo) rince Rupert New Vessel Planned