eee ae PROV: ICIAL — quessnemeneD has eenercaneey ee ee Mews Bis OMORROW'S -TIDES— — gr 20.0 feet DAILY DELIVERY $4) 22.6 feet - NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLYMBLA’s NEWSPAPER © + & fest Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—‘'Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” Phone 81 VOL. XLI, No. 296 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, PRCEREER 18, i _ PRs FIVE CENTS City Crowd Bewildered * By Objects Over Harbor . ONLY THIRTEEN DAYS LEFT Many Report Seeing ql FOR GIRLS TO CATCH MAN More ‘Flying Saucers | abinet huttle coms puse Adjourns tter Battle CP) — The ning Citizen Ft po Uniess the girls put on a strong drive down the stretch Wonderment, bewilderment and awe struck the a story Says Leap Year 1952 will have to be written off as a bad disappoint- | in eal le 7 I i ment, the New York Journal! of Commerce notes. . city shortly before noon today as hundreds of citizens : ‘ Marriage = = the first nine months this year has been ‘on the streets claime | they saw “flying saucers” he lowest since 192 _speeding over Prince Rupert harbor. ae of the unidentified | to make a cabinet shuf- t move “to if the loss of e” from the nad hi re Production Hon. C. G minister which would fe may also in the defence hip w ae | M urmy brigadier nohe last night Bus Plunges Into River + year. Railways Minister Raiph Chet- wynd said Wednesday certain technicalities which held up the {Board of Transport Commis- tsioners’ approval to roll freight, now have been cleared away ic Great Eastern Railway Rainmakers Edge Ketchikan Trains To Roll Soon #22. at et or ne ae semuonas os Over PGE Railway VICTORIA (CP)—Freight trains will be rolling over the new 83-mile Pacif between Quesnel and Prince George early in the new nesses ranged from four to 10, official capacity, for “do you and nearly all reports said “they think I want half the town were flying in formation.” down my neck?” : Most reports jibed on several} The explanation he gave was other points. The things seen that due to the cold atmosphere, were: very high, moving in a condensation was taking place northeasterly direction, and were rapidly, forming little “cloud- seen shortly after a Queen lets, which banded together to Charlotte Airlines Canso land-| form a big cloud. ed | “I was out there, looking with The reports follow hard on the rest of them, and that’s my the heels of “flying saucer” explanation. stories earlier this month when} “But if people want to see os tizens said they | flying saucers, let them” co shiny spherical aes) Te eee ae eS harbor” | Dec. 3—a shining, round object oe cas oe streaking across the harbor at At about the same time, 2¢ “All we have te do now is | dawn was reported here. : he torrid parlia carry out the regulation con- To Tie Series One of the first to spot the se n i ir loggers in Stewart saw a similar ai the Curr THIRTY PASSENGERS and the driver of this Gray Coach bus escay njury when the vehicle | cerning publication of, our | “saucers” today was Pe en » final Dlage of kidded on highway No. 11, 65 miles north of toronto, broke 2 tel aph pole and plunged down rates, That will take about 10 Speciah to The Daily News | suson, typewriter — . . Object speeding across a valley a, Ownter- accu @ 20-foot embankment, burying its nose in the Severn River. The iver opened a rear emer- j days, and then we'll be ail KETCHIKAN—Bo-Me-Hi Rain- | mechanic at McRae and over a mountain, out of 3 en abruptly in sgeney door and led passengers to safety | tlear,” he said. makers edged Kay-Hi Polar) ATTRACTED BY PLANE | sight. *: time co battled » ‘ Bears here last night 44-42 in a d his atte: as at- Final approval was given by | He sai attention w . Jan . : ieee aie heise a a hard-fought, last minute duel’ tracted to the sky a plane ° . tombe the fi "| Weather Not Cold vouas | the board for the, interchangt which gave the Rupert students] ianding on the SS Pilot Sights yg : the , — st ihipays at Prince George @ 2-2 tie in games in the four- | | before 11 a.m. h : : : game international series. Sete thi Detence Es: LEQ pico gel Too Thin for Planes: wipe omen tot bua alos aga tet neh dbo ana vowed =! Flashing SOS idy the report time, and proper passeNget from Ketchikan which retains |plane. They were about the ‘size : . By JIM re 4,00 kK 1 1g its own ice: 4,400 p of explosives drop-}Service won't start until June. | the national Bank award for the | °f Saucers, and were moving for- . : eee oe ee ) Press Stal Writer nd using air-dropped equip a by aieslie hute ' In the meantime, however.| pourth straight year. jward very fast and seemed to Near ' smit te before -cost Al ASKA HIGHWAY @ ment and loval resource The No. 1. airborne troop of | Some provision will be made for Rules of the annual contest | ibe rotating. First I saw two, defence depart- | Canad: ohly airborne engi But the airstrip will never the Royal Canadian Engineers|* limited —e service say a team must win three out ‘then a minute later—the plane VaNCOUVER GA Seh-die- ineeringe unit is building a 2500- have a plane land on jt. When parachuted 10 days ago ent; —a jof the four, games.to. take the | had already landed—I saw three : go on through | foot airstrip in ‘the “Yukon wid- | Tihished, ‘ft wilt be Blasted With “Kloo 500 alr miles nortA- ‘trophy. The teams split a two- | more, close together. a ht ‘Airlines plist _——. ver the radia west of Edmonton for operation ‘City ~ Gets game series here Dec. 4 and 5.| “They were going parallel to light a ~ ae yam . | Tuesday night Rainmakers lost the harbor, very fast,” said Fer- from a Vancguver Ysland moun- : Reluctant Beaver. lntoqemte IKE WITHHOLDS COMMENT The operation was designed to 48-45 to the Polar Bears here. | gusom: ISSUE t the in enginerrins 47, 732 F Last night, Morrison rang the “T didn’t believe in flying Cc Robert MacKenzie. i oment and th M ARTHUR tasks in s1 3 rom bell for Bo-Me-Hi with a hook | saucers before, bub I sure do oat Alaska to. Seattle, — i 8 ac. ilitary shot in the last 56 seconds of the| now. I saw them.” port of.a typical force operat- = light 0 & Tor po ng in winter in an isolated area | T game to break the 42-42 tie. In| Another witness was Vern aaa ar nese et = NEW YORK © —President-el Eisenhower cloaked using only viated area| a es ax the last eight seconds Hamlin of | Ciccone, manager of Ty Eaton | padysmith, und ended with CT ecy ay the Korea war ano wore. ment Fite Kay-Hi was fouled by Nickerson Co. Ltd. He said it was at about the rr thine General MacArthur The engineers now have al- The city’s treasury got a sub- but failed to sink either penalty; «]_ was just before 11,” said} 4500-foot level near the top of irties im the oppo va ae a sean taiuiane ais eas MacArthur set most completed the airstrip, aj Stantlal boost today with the an-' shot. Ciecone. “There were four oria mountain. ding |B pentnet pepsi W hs Se ei tl cont | four-mile aeeess road and a 60-|nouncement that $47,732 will be The Rupert students return t0/ five of them. They were head-; at Ladysmith, RCMP sald as ~ ee Pr ee oe foot log bridge ac Jarvis|Prince Rupert's. share of the their — today aboard the/ing northeast, and rolling.” far as they knew. nobody is.miss- _ marace . wnat we OG an OE Ch Creek. between the Alaska High-|interm payment to municipali-|Prince Rupert. i : : n the army way an a Loke i ties of the B.C. sales tax revenue., Lineups: |DARK ON TOP ing in the area and they were jawaiting further information ent’s stand Everything went smoothly « x | This amount brings to $101,-. Bo-Me-Hi—Morrison 11, Cam-| He described them as “very} before taking any action, ‘tion has t : to ‘ + eh tite ne ol *” 1584.22 the city has received this eron, Tait 1, Kristmanson 7,| small, slightly dark on top and ae ir ‘io Power Commission Opens wae, - nit — e Bo _ a year as its 1952 share of the tax.| Nickerson 6, Ciccone 11, MeKay|shiny at the bottom. They on solitie ; ad ee aga tation, | L&St Year's share was $101,281.33. 2, Ford 1, Becker, Letourneau 5.| round and seemed to veer sev-| ea S e ~~ cal ac to the ame of the oper¢ on . re ie no reas ; ae HON The total amount collected in| Total 44. eral times as they moved to-| a allie 12 = Plant on Queen Charlottes the weather has been reluctant tn Srovince — $5,000,000—was| Kay-Hi—Tucker 3, Auger 5.| wards the northeast. naan of o furnish the 40-below tem-| seater than the same period last|Simpson 5, Vincent 1, Maddox} “I stood watching them for | peratures counted on to help| yo) accounting for the increase | 11, Hamfin 17. Total 42. nearly five minutes. There was | Investigators a big crowd watching them with| se plar ly dominated} QUEEN CHARLOTTE CITY The additions of the e areas| thicken the ice on the airstrip.!i, prince Rupert's share pery GOMUNSs | nn \ c ; to 27 the number of The long, comparatively warm Sh dicate cs Sica Lae Rpg . ' nooo de The B« i ( 101 ‘ . a ans “ of Actually, the city had bud- S R me.’ | VANCOUVER @—A coroner's , re report| new diesel generating plant on power dist cts throughout oe snore re te Shicki SS OM geted for less than last year,” tores emain Two expressmen, unloading investigation was ordered ‘tit but the the Queen Charlotte Islands h pr nce being served by the|Kloo Lake + : ed INCHES wore said City Clerk Long, because, the . parcels at the Post Office, said the deaths here of a man and fe nd ne| gone into operati B.C. Power Commission that i neces oe ate a ( “ee 1951 census had reduced to*8,645 0 en Till 9 they “saw these things.” ; woman whose bodies were found va annie agree I init ‘ ) oe ' tr re — which the airstrip! the population from that of 9,600 ‘ Fred Slade, said: “I saw 10 of qnesday in a one-room house. ue vernment, re-| 115 customers in Queen Ch \ was intende a. os Pe formerly estimated by the city. | Th Sat, rd. them. Two at first, then three,| police said the bodies of Mrs. : ition motions|lotte City and Skidegate Mi No Conmailinnent? The ice “over ne airstrip,| One per cent of the total IS ul ay followed by five more. They were| Ruth Wolrich, 50, and Jai fy en " i init wi which was cleared of snow ©Y| amount collected in the province flying in formation.” Grove, 36, lay undiscove 2 ” next yea Likely on Power tractors,’ was flooded ‘lmost) from the tax is divided among} Most city stores will remain | Noy sauCERS an estimated four days in® he wnt. which began op constantly to build up its thick-| municipalities according to their} open this Saturday night until dwelling. adi S 2 ations last Monday night th OTTAWA rie Canadian’ ness and strength Natural 1€€ | respective school population a i| 9 o'clock to accommodate a ae ne Was | investigators said. they wanna io Station Scie’ Gane Kent the wavernment is unlikely to give | formation was almost negligible. | estimated municipal population.| Christmas shoppers. with Slade at the time and saW . ‘15;. to explain the cause of fi pow i in ‘ . I i } first. Slad idan’ oa 0, exp: c € ; H Id > . ‘ny committment to the Unitea| But the engineering troop stl) Other municipalities shared as} Some stores also will be open | hem firs ade said he didn’t | ports ° up , a sted at Queen Charlotte’ states for ws Rta of thie managed despite losing seven of | follows | until 9 p.m. on Monday and believe what he saw were “fly-! "eaue was last seen altvewen cr on tio | City, the distribution sy e tobe ad th Yukon River ‘he origina 57 men and having; Prince George $27,962; Burns | Tuesday, closing at the regular }/"8 saucers.” |Friday when he came ashdre REEK © ee or aa vevoe development int t¥® tractors go through the thin | Lake $3,806; Dawson Creek $17,-| hour on Wednesday —Christ- }| “I don’t think there is any- | from a fishboat. ported in a news | operat: e aia ag ne , sais ste ter Win-| into the lake 055; Fort St. John $4,201; Mc-| mas Eve agrees that. hod sane y the office of the ahi oar ee ' The seven were evacuated 150) Bride $2,323; Pouce Coupe $2,181 A few stores will be closed on t least one man had an ex- | Yukon Railway at)the Power “alMmne 3 ers said Wednesday in the]. ii6¢ southeast .to Whitehorse, Quesnel $7,541: Smithers $5,721;| December 27 in order to give |planation for what all these|CPA Plans Direct . it i th second in Commo been robbed of ' a | ee v.T.. during. the first few days.| Stewart $1,344; Telkwa $1,630; employees a four- ‘day holiday. People| saw. He said he didn’t, ritis} vu ya to No commitme has be } ah > niu iieenilecshle tite at Seale eques, bonds and) British C ; "a heed i ir i a " ped a * ra . jFour suffered knee and arm/Terrace $4,566; Vanderhoof — : - Overseas Flight power for Gmhe sAhsh win "| wa i ~ tages nee sruises in the first-day jump. [$3,060 hy << S q theives carried | than a month ill be any Mr. Winters told} = ; : Noe = ‘| VANCOUVER &—Grant 'Me- a truck | Conachie, president of Canadian .~| Pacific Air Lines, said Wednes- ~.|day CPA is planning a non-stop ‘air service between Vancouver and London over the Arctic .,| Foute. “*| He said this service would con- nect with CPA’s present non- | FLOODING IMPOSSIBLE Plan to flood and freeze mt pee . 4 > sie sitesof the Rotary tennis court s| Ch be B ks || P oe: gil , ‘ *tto provide Skating for youngsters | am f UC s Bey? ie WER LRA. during cold weather will not be Wi hh : stop service from Tokyo to Vay- attempted—for the time being, | eat. erman’'s se on to provide the a at least, the parks board an-| : _| transportation between Asia and nounced today, that the court is not level and that freezing would not be pos- sible without banking one end with snow,” Commissioner Art Murray said. A drop of eight inches from one end of the court to the other was measured, he said. It had been planned earlier that during cold weather this winter attempts would be made to flood and freeze the hard- “It has just been dlscovered| latest Forecast | While the Vancouver weather | office last night forecast “mixed | rain and snow” for Prince Ru-| | pert today, a shining sun and clear sky this morning prompted the following from Chamber of| — ‘ Commerce President T. Norton | Youngs: “The Chamber? of Commerce is working hard to keep this | Europe. Mr. McConachie did not elaborate further. - WEATHER Forecast ; North Coast Region —Sunny along the mainland, cloudy elsewhere this morning, but cloudy all regions by evening. Intermittent rain western.see- tions this morning; spreading over all regions by night. Cloudy with showers Friday. A.» little EEE ¥ THE ISRAELI FREIGHTER Abraham Graetz reached Saint John, aoe bo nana wanes south- Se ae ; z N.B., amid contradictory reports concerning her former skipper, | ©@5't'y 29, occasionally inereas- ‘LOTS ACCEPT delivery of Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jets at the RCAF base at Bag le, ‘ curting tien naman came es aoe _ Capt. Adam Graetz. The radio operator dered @ report. that 20 Friday. fee toctent ind nigh teen Sabres—first of between 300 and 400 going to the RAF under an eeniaies Seal Cove rink available for weatherman makes to bring =p Capt. Graetz held a pisiol to his head and forced him to send |} . “ or » Friday—At Port Hardy and Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States will be flown to England over skating next week, date and aaything but the best. messages to the Israelf government. Other ship’s officers have Sandspit, 38 and 44; Prince Ru- ken by four RCAF squadrons earlier this year times to be announced. Meantime, the sky thickens. refused comment, pert, 35 and 42. uae 2 | Surfaced courts for skating. present weather for Christmas. | KAS Pp 2 ee See fe