ill TOMORROW'S -TIDES— iber 28, 1952 ird Time 1:05 21.0 feet feet 4:53 9.5 feet 3 3.5 feet * “i EKS OF THE ROYAL 22nd Re b ) in time if Al at 1 Communist target being px Edmonton. T f is ¥ vi Pie. Leor Laf H Que omar = ews NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMB14’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—‘Frince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL. XLI, No, 302 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C , SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1952 TEN CENTS (including comic section) wv . * U4 a oy riod a machine officer, Lieut Michel,, Que., and a after a brief pe and Loon ‘7 Persons Die Violent Deaths n Canada Over Xmas ey SC UE 67 while vis y iC pe a broke gua 6 Of alr Dea ai Paul Da tf e% : s in’) Pincher ¢ ek, Alta.: Olga Souk Castiegar where roff 1 Bon lied Taursday | nic d ruck plunged Other dead in B.C. are: Janice the Columbia | Fergus Van iver: Frank TH, Engiand @ Purke bai Wuard over tii ea Christ 1 Jeracy bulis were pa vi The major also has a wide sel x wo Members of Same Family ie Here Over Xmas Holiday w lie ‘ 1 uM ed withir R i I ) ( with the pa mas E I y Perkins, 78 M I } P I : yester g n ( Harb I ina Davis GQ Newt ere sl ¥ t J } Essing B { atec he Cal } 40 years He ( Cow P rt I ing arrive piace » Essex, f DAV iba G d t Rupert in 1925 A The WEATHERMAN Says tteran Rupert sherman Dies Synopsis : Weathe ontinut mild ov vxIng Day most of the province Coldest spot overnight was Quesnel with c lesen, 51, of 836) a low of two degrees below re died in Prince) On the coast, Sandspit recoradea Hospital yester-| a minimum of 41 degrees and Victoria, 39 degre : herman, Mr. Bred- The ame mild were se in Borgune, Nor- | continue today and Sund : to Prince Rupert Coastal areas will have cloudy skies wit! some howers 4 wife Gladys, he is} ; though extreme southern pone Ltepdaughter, Mrs jwill see sunny periods ern Lemire, 121 will cover much of the southern ie East; a brother interior and scattered sno | flurries may be expected In the in Norway will be the Royal Cana northern interior, cloud ; Reserve for five years | ¥! ariable with a few flurries 0 Second World War, | 5®°W in some areas will be buried in Forecast a plot. at Fairview North Coast Region ia adian Legion BESL| warning continue 1d for southern ‘in the funeral ; section RE |} Sunny along the mainiand, DESTR lotherwise cloudy with an occa si PLANT sional shower voday and Sun- t ER (CP).A $150,000| day. Little change in tempera- o Bridge and Stee] ture Southeasterly gales 35 in Ltd. Christmas Ey ither section today and a temporaatty out of southe ast 20 tomorrow winds : easterly 15 elsewhere Low won icks and the fire-| night and high Sv unday at “a nded to three alarms|Hardy and Sandspit, 38 and . © with the blaze and Prince Rupert, 34 anc i \ iver; Marion 46, Vanco Fred 78 Saat lich; John Sar fanain Andrew Cook Suey Chong, 68 m; M. G. Erho, 17, Chilli- W. Burton, Vancouver, and an undidentified man from Trail HEAVY TOLL Fire took a heavy toll of ia and Quebec N.S., four of five a Danish immigrant d to death yesterday destroyed their home Mor Yee WACK iilves Ourt fire from Liverpool Dead are Mr. and Mrs. Villey Mark Hi anson, thelr three~year- nd hter Mary Ann, and hree- nth-old son Anoth son, Eric, 14, escaped ron ing house henes, Que., police and uthorities are seeking to es suse of a sudden children burned to ng the absence of their of Mr Glandon—Su e the children Robert anne, 10, Cl aude, 8, George, 7 Jacques, 4, Another child, Ri chard, 9, escaped a similar fate because he was Staying at rome of friends Father of the dead children is with the 25th Brigade in Korea Canadian traffic deaths total- ied with eight in Ontario, 10 four in B.C., three in each in Newfoundland and 28 Alberta, New Brunswick and one Nova Scotia cnewan Saskat The U ed States traffic death y appeared headed for a y ’ Christmas holiday ecord Deaths on highways, at a little past the halfway mark in the extended holiday week-end enched 336, Aybundred other yersons lost Mielr lives in various types “of uccidents, Including 43 fires MARY SCHIERHOLTZ of Kitchener, temptation to check on Santa’s beard when he appeared at a She.gave the whiskers a good tug fortunately, Santa and his beard did not part company. service club Christmas party. but, Clemens, 52-year-old jhad reque fire in |< ead Tals Concrete Proposal Sought From Stalin WASHINGTON (CP)—The Eisenhower ad- ministration is holding the door open for diplomatic negotiations with Stalin as it prepares to engage in important talks with Prime Minister Churchill in the first s of the New Year. ~# These developments ha v<« heightened speculation over the} Death Takes possibility of an eventual Big) Man Injured In Scuffle Three meeting .aimed at easing) VANCOUVER aay world tension. It appears the question of a} conference, perhaps including other leaders as well, will come} up during. meetings between) President-elect Eisenhower and the British Prime Minister at} New York 10 days hence } iongshore- In a question-and-answer ex- | he Wasichange with James Reston of during a scuffle July 19.) the New York Times, made pub- Christmas Eve ilie Christmas Day, Premier Four Vancouver organizations! Stalin expressed a favorable at- | ted an “impartia! in-|ttude toward a meeting with the ease after Cle-| General Eisenhower. He also o be taken to hos pital | Said Russia-is interested in end- scuffle with police.|img the Korean war Clarence} man in arrested hospital since ied quiry” into n had + following a He was charged with resisting; John Foster Dulles, Eisenhow- arrest er’s choice as Secretary of State, [ “44 , : 2 challenged Stalin Friday to back City Prosecutor Gordon Scott) se said in October an investigation | UP his remarks with concrete | was proposals.” wee 50 Gee Se Dulles said the way for such} showed there substantiate a charge of assault} caines tuo olicemen in con. (overtures ds always open through | nection witl hs injury |diplomatie or United Nations | wee Te channels, and that they would| ‘be “seriously and sympatheti- cally received.” Balmy Xmas _Lendon reaction to Stalin's istatement made it plain that | | Britain wants to be in on any LStalin- Eisenhower conference. } While policies of the oie hower government still have to be defined and declared, the United States has long taken the position that it is not inter- ested in exclusive deals with the Russians. Churchill thus seems assured of a friendly response from his old wartime comrade in arms) on this as well as any other points he wishes to raise Word that Churchill would be | Was Novelty To This City snow was Ity this year idents who white” Christ- nasseés than the balmy kind which prevailed this year The tt xometer, too, claim- ‘ of a record as mperature kept to ea wir warm 42 above Christmas Eve,/in New York Jan, 4 for talks while Vancouver and the lower! with Bisenhower followed by mainland reported a frigid 28) jittle more than 24 hours the| above and colder Times’ publication of Stalin’s| Skies over the city, however,j/answer to question which the cleared last night for the first; newspaper had sent him time in a week to bring tem- However, informed persons peratures down to 30.6, recorded said Churchill's decision to} at the Digby Island weather make the trip was not the re- station sult of the Stalin announce- The holiday season also es- | ment. caped wi thout a serious acci- dent and police reported this morning it was one of the quiet- Santa Floors est Crist 1asses recorded . Two r car accidents with Th f B t little damage were reported and 1é u 10 persons landed in jail on charges of intoxication loses Money lan Carne *. sonst = PRINCE GEORGE @ seriou accident marred the i F holiday season and, 42 drunks Somebody got mi ehmpee of , i Santa's bankroll in a Prince jammed the city jail George beer parlor and robbed the old: fellow. Father Christmas, actually | Hilliard Clare with a Santa suit and pillow, was touring the city beer parlors to collect donations for a children’s hos- | pital. Someone, Clare told police, | followed him to the street, grabbed him roughly and snatched $3 from the pocket of his Santa suit. He floored the thief with a well-aimed punch but the man got up and fled while | Clare was putting through a call to police. . | Christmas Eve | OTTAWA @ — The Korean easualty list today showed Pte.) Eward James Power of North| Sydney, NS. was killed in Christmas Eve patrol action. In a dispatch Christmas Day from Korea, Bill Boss, Canadian Press staff writer, said Power's patrol was scattered by three enemy mortar bombs. Power was killed by a shell| fragment. Total casualties so far suffer-| ed by Canadian troops in Korea | are 1, 264, including 239 dead,! 912 wounded, 28 missing, 85 in-| jured and one captured. ” 2 Ont., couldn't resist the }own Crippled Ship Returns HERE IS THE 10,00@-TON CANADIAN freighter Maplecove which ran into trouble 1200 miles out of Vancouver, The vessel, returning from. a voyage to the Orient, lay helpless with a broken rudder in a fierce Pacific storm, with gales up to 60 miles an hour. The Maplecove was under command of Capt. R. A. Leicester ot Burnaby: .B.C., and carried 65 crew members. Ma plecove Reaches Vancouver VANCOUVER ©&-—-The storm- weary freghter Maplecove slip- ped into a berth in Vancouver harbor today, ending a 10-day ordeal that saw her slammed by Savage blows from an aroused Pacific as she crawled some 1,200, ;miles with a damaged rudder. Capt. Leicester said “everything ran smoothly and the ship was never at any time in danger.” The vessel] lost part of her rudder Dec. 18 while she was hove to in a heavy gale, 1,222 miles west of Vancouver Island. Winds of 65 miles an hour hammered the ship as she was tossed at the mercy of 40-foot waves. When the winds abated the crew rigged a jury-rudder by bolting two hatch covers back- 1 to-back and dropping them over the stern, Canvas rags of oakum soaked with fish oil were drop- ped over the weather-side of the ship to calm seas. On Christmas Day, after the Maplecove tad travelled miles, she was taken in tow by the Island Sovereign. Capt. Leicester said normal watches were maintained during | the 10 days, but he admitted the longest stretch of sleep he man- jaged Was 24% hours. There was plenty of food for the 62 crew members and only fresh water was rationed. Turkey from the Maplecove's stores was sérved for Christmas dimmer. 1,200 | | aspects The ocean hurled a final spite- : ful blow Friday night as the \lights of Vancouver beckoned to \the crippled vessel. The tricky tide kept crew members of the Vancouver freighter away from their families for another night. Pioneer Missionary Worker Soldier Killed Mrs. Mary Ann Edgar, Dies Funeral was held this after- ;noon for the wife of one of the earliest missionaries on -the }northwest coast of British Co- | ;lumbia and herself a mission- ary, Mrs. Mary Ann Edgar. She |died Wednesday at the age of 98. She and her husband George, who died at Kiemtu in 1931, were both born at Port Simp- son. They began their mission~ ary work for the Methodist church 75 years ago and one |ot the first villagts visited was Kitimat. 2 Well khown and loved | throughout the northwest coast, Mrs. Edgar accompanied her |husband on most of his travels 4 The Maplecove drew within | sight of Vancouver under tow of| the Island Sovereign but CPS} spokesman said rough tide con-| until this morning. lAtter 10-Day Battle With Sea | ditions made it impractical for the ship to dock. Instead, she sat in English Bay CARRIER RECEIVES RADIO FOR MOST NEW SUBSCRIBERS Grand prize winner of the Daily News subscription contest for carriers and newsboys was won by Robert Jensen, who re-| Second prize winner was Ray-| mond Sklapsky, with 14 new! . Subscriptigns, who received a wallet and key case. Five’ other | boys with five or more new sub- scriptions each won a wallet as ceived a mantel radio for a total their prize. of 26 subscriptions. A total of 90 new subserip- tions was gained by the month’s contest which ended Dec. 24. Jail Termed ‘Utter Disgrace’ In John Howard VANCOUVER (CP)—Vancouver city jail was termed “an utter! disgrace for any city” in a re- port issued by the John Howard Society. The society, an association which works for the rehabilita- tion of prisoners, said in the report that primitive conditions| prevail in the headquarters. jail at police “It is indicative of insuffici-| ent concern about the humane | of incarceration,” said: the report issued by J. N. | ertson, society president. A waiting-room for cinweba! where they are placed before court appearance, was described | as “nothing better than a dun-! geon,” which began when the only | means of transportation was a/ ; dugout canoe. The couple spent much time among villages up| and down the Naas and Skeena | rivers, the Queen Charlotte Is-| lands, and the coastal mainland. |... Heading one of the an family trees in this area, Mrs. Edgar is survived by five gen erations which inelude thre: sons, Mark and Louis of this| eity, and Magnus of Sunnyside; | and 38 grandchildren and great grandchildren. } Funeral services’ were con- ducted by the Rev..L. G. Sieber of the First United Church here at B.C. Undertakers’ Grenville Chapel. ed Society Report A stairway leading to the room is without light @nd a |John Howard committee awe tigating conditions founds | necessary to use a flashiiget | pass down the stairs. “We are advised that Sot. tions become so intolerant. that on occasion men actually faint. The toilet facility is one old | tin bucket set in a corner 6f the }room in plain view of all.” Ola Country FOOTBALL LONDON.—-Soccer results: ENGLISH LEAGUE Division I Arsenal vs. Bolton, post; Cardiff City 0, Neweastle United 0 Chariton Athletic vs. Aston Villa, ' ; Post poned Chelsea 0, Stoke City 0. Manchester City vs. Preston North End. postponed Middlesbrough ©, Tottenham 4. Portsmouth 2, Derby County 2 Sunderland 5, Wolverhampton 2 West Bromwich 0, Sheffield Wed- nesday 1. Division Bury %, Rotherham. United 0. Everton vs. Lincoln, postponed. Hull City 5, Nottingham Forest 1. Leeds United 2, Luton Town 2. sneer City 2, Blackburm. Rov- West HamUnit- aia Argyle 2, Birmingham 1. Southampton 5, Pulham Swansea 3, Huddersfield Town 3. SCOTTISH LEAGUE ‘ Division A Airdriconiams 2, Rangers 2. Celtic 0 Reith Rovers 1 Dundee 0, Queen of the —- 8 East Fife 2, Motherwell 2. Hibernian 3, Aberdeen 0. Noits County 1, et aR i. Sabin: 27ers ts f ? & é