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United
Nations
Forces
Facing
New
Counter
Offensive
of
Communists
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Blaze
Fighters
IIIKUS
(CP)
Four
volunteer
fiixmen,
them
brothers,
were
injured
yesterday
in
a
fire
and
explosion
at
a
Smithers
garage,
iltaneous
fires
wiped
out,
the
garage
of
Battle
For
Old
Capital
of
Seoul
Is
Developing
";
TOKYO
(CP)
Chinese
and
Korean
Reds,
combining
power
with
such
ruses
as
white
flags
and
handshakes,
rammed
a
dangerously
deep
wedge
seven
miles
into
Allied
lines
on
the
Korean
central
front
today,
isolating
some
American
and
South
Over
Europe
"
NEW
YORK
ti
Governor
Thomas
E.
Dewey
has
re-entered
the
"great
debate'
'on
foreign
policy
with
an
appeal
for
a
large
American
land
army
free
to
deploy
its
forces
In
Europe.
!
The
titular
head
of
the
Republican
party,
twice
presidential
candidate,
-
clearly
split
witn
tome
other
Republican
leaders
including
Senator
Robert
Taft
of
Ohio
and
former
President
Herbert
Hoover
as
he
was
In
Weill
and
badly
damaged
the
home
of
John
.
t
-
o
-
r
'
.
sr.
;
unknown
In
both
Korean
units.
I
On
the
east
coast
a
South
!
Korean
patrol
which
had
thrust
j
five
miles
north
of
the
38th
parallel
was
forced
back
four
miles
.
he
fires
.started
in
I
of
the
buildings,
the
'
terviewed
yesterday.
Dewey,
In
direct
variance
with
In
Battle
Line
Canadians
m
me
omce.
is
no
water
with
tj.tt
tlt
the
fires.
All
Hoover,
said
it
was
"the
utmost
of
folly"
to
think
that
the
United
States
can
be
defended
by
air
Snow
Holds
Indian
Tram
But
Premier
Expects
To
Be
Handling
That
Mine's
Ore
By
Spring
Heavy
snowfall
of
late
over
the
two
mile
distance
has
been
delaying
completion
of
the
new
H
)
by
Red
counter-attacks.
At
the
last
report
to
the
U.S.
Eighth
Army
headquarters,
however.
South
JCoreans
were
still
one
mile
north
of
the
old
boundary
between
North
and
South
artfl
sea
power
without
large
ground
forces.
To
Front
re
frozen
after
28-1
weather
the
night
-iill
said
It
was
the
at
his
garage
.
in
j
COMING
-TO
CANADA
Odette
Churchill,
left,
famed
wartime
British
agent
in
occupied
France,
will
be
in
charge
of
50
British
girls
coming
to
Canada
this
summer
on
a
tour
sponsored
by
W.
Oarfidd
Weston.
A
similar
group
of
Canadian
girls
will
visit
Britain.
With
Mis.
Churchill
U
Barbara
Weston,
daufihter
of
the
Canadian-born
industrialist,
associate
leader
of
the
tour.
CP
PHOTO)
tarneu
from
the
PASSES
W.
E.
Williams,
K.C.,
formerly
of
Prince
Rupert.
(This
picture
was
taken
when
Mr.
Williams
lived
in
this
city).
,
WITH
CANADIANS
IN
KOREA,
English,
Scottish,
Australian
and
New
Zealand
troops
will
be
battle
companions
of
A
savage
Red
counter
drive
in
the
mountainous
central
sector
wa-s
launched
Sunday
midnight
and
pushed
an
estimated
60.000
trrifitie
1
Vi
rmifrhmit.
MnnHov-
rm
a
v
atonal
Railways
for
Pt.
Simpson's
Chief
Passes
Ernest
Dudoward,
72,
Led
,
Village
For
Many
Years
tramline
wntch
will
carry
ore
from
the
Indian
mine
to
the
SU-'
bak-Premier
mill,
but
Dale
L.!
Pitt,
managing
director
of
Sil-j
bak-Premier,
expects
that
the
Job
two
bloeks
to
the
d
Street
which
gut-:diaw's
home.
with
burns
on
their
mris
are
Tom,
Ora-
Shortage
Of
Box
i
More
Swiss
Canada's
ground
force
in
Korea
1
30-mile-wide
front,
when
it
goes
into
action.
Two
American
units
of
undis-
Lt.-Col.
J.
R.
Stone,
command-!
closed
size
were
reported
cut
off
er
of
the
Second
Battalion
Prin-I
northea.4
of
Hoengsong.
-
Pionaer
Rupert
Barrister
Dies
will
be
finished
early
In
the
uiuinuo,ipiuis
wiiKn
anuuier
luu
ions
oi!rf,
m
I
4
Collison
'arker.
Regarded
generally
as
Port
'Simpson's
outstanding
native
1
citizen,
Ernest
S.
Dudoward
ore
d.U
will
be
avaUable
for
fl0W
!
u(
060
AValanCiieS
At
present
about
250
tons
of
.
.
,
,
...
1
ore
is
being
handled
daily
at
the
A
box
car
8nort8e.
wh'h
was
AIROLO.
Switzerland
Dt,iiv
ri..
iim
1
hat
town
is
55
air
miles
east
cess
Patricias
Canadian
Llghtl
,
-,
njv.u
of
Seoul,
Red-held
former
Ko-Inf
antry,
broke
the
news
to
his
;
rpan
capital
men
Saturday
at
their
last
bat-'
The
United
Nations
troops
are
t.alion
nararle
before
t.hpv
mnvp!
massed
south
of
Seoul
just
KNS
'f
e
volunlecr
firemen
facial
burns
and
W.
E.
Williams,
K:C.
Passes
Away
in
Vancouver
At
passed
away
early
this
morning
in
the
Prince
Runert
General
killed
Silbak-Premicr
plant
Mr
pit,
worrying
sawmill
operators
In
least
lour
persons
were
t'ollisons
also.,
have
LFe
RHrt'
mortl
I
across
tie
Han
River
from
the
'
nortn
from
thsir
.ga,
Korcan
rilizona
ninnanr
I
burn
from
an
-
Dromilient,
nf
a-na
twenty
-iwo-
otner
are
oe-
uspitai
where
he-
had
been
a
lieved
injured
by
avalanches
patient
since
last
week
when
he
they
were
trying
days
passed
away
on
Saturday
ininS
headquarters.
i
patrol
that
had
made
another
m
second
floor
of
the
In
the
city
-yesterday
on
the'
the
Tfinee
Oeorge
area
lias
been
Camosun
bound
from
Vancouver
alleviated.
C.
A.
Bemer,
divlsion-to
Premier,
told
a
Dally
News'al
superintendent,
reports
the
representative
that
the
efflcien-
arrival
of
150
cars
in
thnt
im-cy
of
the
operation
could
be
made
portant
lumber
producing
area
The
Patricias
will
line
up
with
probe
into
Seoul
was
forced
out
in
Vancouver
in
the
person
of
W.
the
27th
Commonwealth
Brigad
a
garden
hose.
i
the
garage
started
more
satisfactory
with
the
addi
again
late
yesterday
by
sharp
enemy
small-arms
fire.
NOT
ACROSS
PARALLEL
A
report
yesterday
that
South
Korean
.
forces
had
crossed
five
and
more
will
be
on
hana
as
they
are
required.
which
already
indues
first
battalions
of
the
Middlesex
Regiment
and
the
Argyll
and
Scottish
Highlanders,
the
Australian
In-
which
crashed
into
two
villages
was
brought
here
in
the
Indian
in
southeast
Switzerland
last
Department
cruiser
Naskeena.
niht.
,
,
.1
"He
will
be
missed
greatly,"
Continuous
snowfall
In
the
commented
Indian
Superinten-area
renews
the
threat
of
slides
dient
F.
E
Anfjeic
tnis
afternoon
in
othc
section
where
seventy.
ln
paying
tribute
to
deceased,
five
persons
were
kil
ed
by
ava-,
.
.
,
,
,
,
mon,h
lunches
in
a
single
6
week-end
last
'
from
frChff
the
earliest
thf,
Efg!e
days
cIanf'
of
village
fmed
.',,,
,
,
...i
hit!
history,
Mr.
Dudoward
for
40
Many
villages,
previously
WQrk
have
again
been
evacuated.
:MthHiCf
or
th
th-
E.
Williams,
B.A.,
LLB.,
K.C.
He
was
one
of
the
city's
first
barristers,
leaving
here
in
1929
with
his
family
to
reside
in
Vancouver.
There
are
still
many
old
friends
of
deceased
here
who
will
learn
with
regret
of
his
passing.
Mr.
Williams
was
born
April
26,
1879,
at
Corbetton,
Ontario.
fantry
Battalion
and
the
New
(
miles
beyond
the
38th
parallel
Zealand
Field
Artillery
Brigade.!
was
denied
today.
estimated
at
$100.-.
covered
by
insur-
orrls
were
saved
"fees
of
servicing
and
pumps.
Cars
d
safely
out
of
the
i
of
them
belonged
i"nrral
Motors
ship-
i
had
Juki
been
re-
ii
the
L.iidlaw
house
tional
tonnage.
Recently
a
conciliation
board
dralt
with
a
wage
dispute
between
Silkab-Premler
and
the
Union
of
Mine,
Mill
and
Smelter
Workers,
a
majority
award
giv-'
ing
the
men
an
increase
of
55c
per
day
to
bring
their
pay
up
to
$9
for
an
eight-hour
day.
The
union
had
at
first
asked
for
a
$2
increase,
later
lowering
the
demand
to
$1.05.
I
Church.
For
numerous
years
he
Fraser
Valley
Skating
Pond
;
Is
Found
Dead
ft
2
p.m.
Mast
of
the
Set
Fire
To
Evade
Draught
LANSING,
Michigan
A
husky,
19-year-old
father
on
Sunday
confessed
to
setting
the
$4,000,000
fire
in
the
Michigan
State
Office
buldlng
here
"to
avoid
the
draft,"
Prosecutor
Paul
C.
Younger
said.
Richard
C.
Shay,
a
state
highway
department
employee,
signed
a
formal
statement
admitting
he
set
the
fire
Thursday
noon,
Younger
said.
He
will
be
charged
rum
the
lower
floor
ImL
the
upstairs
was
le
house
was
badly
7
water.
was
chief
councillor
of
the
village
and
was
always
to
be
found
in
Ihe
forefrgnt
of
community
affairs.
Born
April
19,
1879,
at
Port
Simpson,
Dr.
Dudoward
is
survived
by
his
widow,
Annie
Dudoward,
i
and
two
children
Catherine
Louise
and
Leonard
Jack.
Charles
Dudoward,
now
chief
councillor,
and
Rufus
Dudoward
are
brothers.
The
funeral
will
take
place
at
Port
Simpson
Thursday,
It
is
expected.
Island
Suspect
Gives
Up
Chilliwack
Inundated
to
Depth
of
Five
Feet
Rail
and
Highways
out
of
Business
VANCOUVER
(CP)
British
Columbia's
Fraser
Valley
became
a
vast
skating
pond
today
as
freezing
temperatures
descended
on
the
flood-covered
land.
The
province
counted
three
flood
deaths
as
a
vast
clean-up
job
began.
Hundreds
of
.persons
had
been
forced
to
evacuate
flood-damaged
homes.
one
office,
across
from
the
burning
staffed
throughout
line
equipment
was
He
was
educated
at
Owen
Sound
Collegiate,
University
of
Toronto
and
Osgoode
Hall
and
was
called
to
the
Ontario
bar
in
1900.
He
came
to
British
Columbia
and
was
called
to
the
bar
of
this
province
in
1908.
Soon
after,
he
came
to
the
young
community
of
Prince
Rupert
and
formed
u
law
practice
with
A.
M.
Manson
(now
Mr.
Justice
Manson).
The
firm
finally
became
Williams,
Manson,
Brown
&
Harvey,
the
two
original
senior
partners
withdrawing
years
ago.
He
was
created
a
K.C.
in
1928.
Diiring
World
War
I
Mr.
Williams
became
actively
identified
with
the
lumbering
industry
in
association
with
the
late
John
R.
Morgan
and
was
associated
with
a
number
of
logging
and
sawmilling
enterprises
including
Prince
Rupert
Logging
Co
at.d
Billmor
Spruce
Mills
Ltd.
He
was
for
years
secretary
of
the
i::h
special
efforts
KYUOUOT.
Rustier!
In
the
iry
disruptions.
f
ie
being
made
by
riiig
in
plasma
to
Volunteer
sandbag
crews
to-,
"Hired
men
blood
killing
of
a
fisherman
in
thiswiln
al'son-Isolated
west
coast
of
Vancouver
Shay
said
he
had
not
intended
Lsland
village
gave
himself
up
'
to
have
a
large
fire.
All
he
want-to
the
postmaster
here
today.
:
ed
was
to
have
a
conviction
n
u-He
will
be
charged
today
or
to-
;
istered
against
him
so
he
would
morrow,
It
is
expected.
i
not
be
drafted.
Two
of
the
Colli-
in
hnsiiiilnl
fni
at
f
''Its.
it
is
estimated.
seven
feet
of
water.
Two
men
were
drowned
Wrule
three
other
occupants
swam
to
safety.
First
flood
victim
was
Wllla
Foreman,
70.
Her
body
was
found
floating
In
her
flooded
heme
at
Chilliwack.
Manoeuvres
In
Mediterranean
In
His
Cabin
Felix
Benson
was
found
dead
at
his
home
on
Eleventh
Avenue
Saturday
night
by
his
wife.
Mrs.
Benson
had
been
visiting
in
the
interior
and
returned
on-
the
train
Saturday.
On
entering
the
cabin,
she
found
her
husband
dead,
the
pipes
of
the
oil
burner
stove
disconnected
and
oil
fumes
strong.
It
is
belkwed
that,
when
Mr.
Benson
came
home,
he
lit
the
oil
burner
and
laid
down.
The
burner,
apparently,
became
flooded
and
a
slight
explosion
blew
the
pipes
loose.
Fumes
filled
the
room
and
overcame
the
sleeping
man.
A
coroner's
inquiry
into
the
death
Is
being
held.
Deceased
was
a
city
employee.
Takla
Seems
Total
Loss
The
57-foot
Prince
Rupert
halibut
boat
Takla,
which
piled
up
on
Lucy
Island
early
last
Wednesday
morning
during
a
TODAY'S
STOCKS
(Courtesy
8.
11.
Johnsliin
Co.
Ltd.)"
i
Death
llision
VALETTA,
Malta
B
The
Unl-
Northern
British
Columbia
Tim-ted
States
Sixth
Fleet
and
the
bermen's
Association.
British
Home
and
Mediterran-!
Deceased
was
active
in
the
Aumaque
Beattle
Bevcourt
Bobjo
,
Buffalo
Canadian
...
.27
.66
.50
17'2
.31
affairs
of
Prince
Rupert
Board
of
Trade
and
was
a
president.
He
was
also
a
mejjiber
of
First
Pres-
ean
fleets
are
today
staging
their
biggest
postwar
air
and
sea
manoeuvers
in
the
central
Mediterranean.
Sixty
war
vessels
Ontario
((Pi
The
'Histon
at
nearby
Dytenan
Church
here,
ln
the
s
claimed
an
eighth
Consol.
Smelters
154.00
Conwest
'
2.30
day
won
their
fight
to
save
a
key
dyke
protecting
10,000
acres
of
reclaimed
farm
land
near
Su-mas,
about
50
miles
east
of
here
near
the
United
States
border.
A
three-day
downpour,
virtually
unprecedented,
inundated
an
estimated
40
per
cent
of
the
Fraser
Valley,
which
extends
east
from
Vancouver
100
miles.
The
rain
ended
yesterday
and,
in
some
parts
of
the
valley,
it
was
followed
by
snowfall
of
six
inches.
The
weather
office
said
the
outlook
is
for
dry
weather.
The
Fraser
went
on
a
rampage
in
1948,
causing
$30,000,000
damage.
This
time
the
mighty
river's
tributaries
were
the
villains.
Number
of
homeless
stands
high
in
the
hundreds.
Vancouver
is
still
without
rail
communications
today
and
Trans-Canada
Highway
was
cut.
The
CPR
expected
to
get
a
train
through
by
4
p.m.
today.
CNR
would
make
no
predictions.
There
is
an
air-lift
from
Kara-loops
for
passengers.
Water
was
four
or
five
feet
deep
in
some
parts
of
Chilliwack,
from
minesweepers
and
frigates
'
early
days,
later
joining
the
to
the
42,000-ton
HMS
Vanguard
j
United
Church.
He
was
a
past
fiic
death
in
hospital
master
of
Tyee
Lodge,
AF
&
AM
are
taking
part.
"in,
45,
of
Conieton.
t'f
32
Persons
inlnrcrl
.60
.27
Donalda
Eldona
nt
early
Friday.
.
frrs
on
th
curl,
-
-
-
-
,
UVI
iuuoij-
Fre
Slil-ht.lv
Imnrnu.
eather
Attlee
Cautious
About
Crossing
LONDON
Prime
Minister
Clement
R.
Attlee
told
Parliament
today
that
General
Douglas
Mac-Arthur
should
refrain
from
sending
troops
across
Korea's
Korea's
33th
parallel
until
there
has
been
"full
consultation
with
the
United
Nations."
There
should
be
a
clear
distinction
between
a
"military"
and
a
"political
line,"
the
Prime
Minister
declared.
He
also
said
nothing
could
be
gained
from
sanctions
against
Communist
China
at
this
time.
nd
a
Shriner.
The
late
Mr.
Williams
Is
survived
by
his
widow
Mary
An-diews
(Mus.
Bac.
University
of
Toronto)
whom
he
married
in
1907.
They
had
two
daughters
W.
Enid,
BA,
MA,
ATCM.
and
East
Sullivan
9.40
Giant
Yellowknlfe
7.25
God's
Lake
49
Hardrock
21
Harricana
'.
18
Heva
13'2
Hosco
7
'A
snow
and
windstorm
.appears
to
be
a
total
loss.
I
Synopsis
Salvncp
vprspIq
rptnmpH
in
Bv
forcinc
Its
wrv
to
the
coast
f
nt
occurred
when
a
?"'-lfic
Railway
west-tl
real-Vancouver
ex-f'l
into
a
Nickel
Belt
Jacknife
.5a
Joliet
Quebec
95
VANCOUVER
American
Standard
33
Bralorne
8-55
B
R
X
05
Cariboo
Quartz
1.05
Congress
08
Hedley
Mascot
74
'
Pend
Oreille
9.00
Pioneer
.'
2.15
Premier
Border
14
Privateer
15
Reeves
McDonald
07
Reno
1.70
Sheep
Creek
38
Sllbak
Premier
6VS"
Taku
River
11
Va
Vananda
.3V4
Salmon
Gold
04
Spud
Valley
2.92
Silver
Standard
1.87
Oils-Anglo
Canadian
6.55
A
P
Con
43
Atlantic
3.10
,
Calmont
1.17
3
&
E
12.25
Central
Leduc
2.75
Home
Oil
18.00
Mercury
HV3
Okalata
2.95
Pacific
Pet
10.00
Princess
1,65
Royal
Canadian
12
Royalite
15.00
TORONTO
Athona
08
.
.07
Lake
Rowfcn
port
at
the
week-end
after
hav-
yesterday
the
polar
air
mass
-lalr.
Ba.
ATCM.
Enid
Is
a
prac
ing
tiken
some
of
the
gear
from
completed
its
hold
on
Canadian
wsing
barnrte:-
herself
with
her
the
shattered,
misshappen
hulk
weather
and
now
covers
the
father's
firm
of
Williams
and
which
lies
on
the
exposed
shore
country
from
the
Atlantic
to
thejR3JV
of
the
island
where
she
was
Pacific.
All
sections
reported
!
The
Wmiams
jamily
resided
driven
by
high
winds
and
heavy
feezing
temperatures
this
morn-
"J
"
B1or-
ofw
th
trrf,.,
ine
with
stations
in
central
Rrlt.-'
den
Street,
Mr.
Williams
having
aSSt'iMjeri
a
city
of
7000
which
was
55
per
Recovered
were
such
items
of
,
lsn
uoiumoia
and
throughout
the
"
'
cenl
nunaaiea.
nouse
now
occupied
oy
Mr.
and
Jack
Moran.
31-vear-old
Chil
prairies
reporting
temperatures
equipment
as
echo
sounder,
direc
fvx
todayD.S
nlop,w.
C.R.Jones
Mrs.
J.
R.
Carr.
Their
home
in
iiwack
taxi-driver,,
described
the
Vancouver
Is
at
3738
Cypress
!
floods
this
wav:
well
below
zero.
It
was
28
below
at.
Rmtt.VlPPC
rfllflvifT
ihta
nlfrhf
I
ve
never
seen
so
much
water
strect
This
cold
speU
will
continue
,
HOCKEY
scores
tion
finder
and
some
fishing
gear.
The
gear
was
removed
by
row-boats
to
the
salvage
vessels.
The
Takla
was
equipped
with
a
100
h.p.
Enterprise
diesel
Lapaska
5'4
Little
Long
Lac
80
Lynx
16
Madscn
Red
Lake
2.65
McLeod
Cockshutt
3.65
Moncta
.
.38
'a
Negus
1.04
Noranda
80.50
Louvicourt
27
Pickle
Crow
1.75
San
Antonio
2.75
Sherrlt
Gordon
4.20
Steep
Rock
9.00
Sturgeon
River
13
Silver
Miller
,
1.50
Upper
Canada
2.00
Golden
Manitou
7.05
I
in
Chilliwack.
not
even
during
through
tomorrow
in
all
districts.
Forecast
North
coast
region
Clear
and
TIDES
-
-
the
Fraser
River's
flood
In
1943.
Then,
dykes
held
the
water
back.
iThis
time
It
came
straight
outj
jof
the
sky."
fn.
R.
Clerlhue,
J.
f
-
Doswell,
Mrs.
L.
fierd,
j.
Wllloek,
Mr.
louver
(Saturday)-lD;
w-
Rogers,
c.
L.
Murray.
D.
Payne.
Pspit
'Saturdayi-R.
Pf.
B.
H.
Craft,
R.
jP-
McMillan.
cold
today
and
tomorrow.
Wind
Tuesday,
February
13,
1951
light.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
High
5:55
18.4
feet
ueam
iou
rose
to
tnree
yes
NATIONAL
LEAGUE
(Sunday)
Canadiens
1,
New
York
3
Toronto
5,
Chicago
3
(Saturday)
Detroit
2,
Toronto
1
Montreal
C.
Boston
6
tomorrow
Port
Hardv
25
and'
18:47
14.6
feetiterday
near
Abbotsford,
east
of
The
federal
government
employs
some
12-5.O0O
permanent
and
temporary
civil
servants
plus
about
40,000
"non-enumerated'-'
or
"casual"
employees.
40;
Sandsplt
28
and
38;
Prince
Low
feet
j
Vancouver,
when
an
automobile
Rupert
25
and
35.
'
12:45
7.7
feet
'slipped
into
a
ditch
filled
with