QMES r - k. ri ii t&y i ctoria . b. c. "DRUGS r r -r r r DAILY DELIVERY v. y NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER STAR V CABS Phone 01 k mo nisrA K nn Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XL. No. 303 PRINCE RUPERT, B C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951 PRICE FiVE CENTS r ft m Offer msm n lUAiivv vs. t a New For Tr Soviet Stockpiling at Japanese Ship Loading K Capt. Iwatsuka Ik enthusiastic j i about Japanese shipbuilding and Second Grain Vessel at Elevator Sailing Monday Pvnaiico rit fi3iiiifoc Food Scarce in Middle Europe Romania Short of Oil WASHINGTON, D.C. (CP) Stanislaw Poland's exiled pifciulei', ay that Ruia if 4 V,y. fT f ) hoi increasing trade with Can-: Grain loading began this morn-jata Ing on the second of several Jap- -flight now we arc only in a' anese ships scheduled to call here ; position Ui buy food, but our, this winter. Arriving here yes-jmain probem in japan is hous-terclay direct from Nagoya.j jnB - j Japan, failing tlw northern He is looking forward, he says, i ioutt, Uie oltik new fieigiuei to the dav when he will be able! Compromise Proposed by United Nations To Bring Peace in Korea PANMUNJON (CP) United Nations command today offerad a new compromise proposal for supervision of a Korean truce. Armistice negotiators said they would abandon their demand for aerial inspection over North Korea if the Reds accept the proposal in its entirety. Fit!! c!"rtt!s of h? new proposal are not immediately avail-Hole but the Allies agreed for the first time to negotiate the question of troop rotation. The plan provides at "such rotations of military personnel as within limits agreed upon by botli sides shall be reported to the military armistice commission. , It also proposes that ' both sides undertake not to Introduce t the expense of her Yamateru Maru makes th's her;to )oad iumber in B.C. ports, a sneedinir war preparations second voyage since launching, j product scarce and much needed 1 - . Her maiden trip was made to n country. mid-hUl'Opc satellite.-;, 'i Vancouver. November 6. where His ship belongs to the Yama Team Delayed He told a press conference vesterdav that, durinsr the last she watted 17 days for her cargo i. shits line. The name. Yamateru, , i ' tie " i of grain, says Capt. T. Iwatsuka Week-end Hoop means "the sun shines through sjx months, he had learned from tire mountains." Maru means the Iron curtain underground "s"iP-" ithat there Is an unexplained The Yamateru Maru, of 7.152 gross tons, was launched in Oc The 55-year-old skipper who i food shortage in luicluie Europe tober, In a shipyard 150 mile west of Kobe. Japan. It is one of i fi series of "AV" class freighters I had two ships sink under him whereas ail these nations except Czechoslovakia normally produce food surpluses. ' into Korea any reinforcing military personnel" after an armti-clce is signed. now under construction, says! , Capt. Iwatsuka. i j And unlike the former Japan- e vcK"wl loading grain here, she: will take on oil at Prince Rupert f : nnri proceed directly to Japan f during the Second World War and narrowly escaped death when a piece of shell entered his skull, is married and has a family of three children at home. Two are daughters, one a widow whose husband was killed during the war. "i, ior. is taking a course in economics in the Tokyo University and hopes to extend his education in an American or Canadian university. Gasoline Is scarce in Romania, an oil piuuueer. ; "Unnecessary" people, that isM those cool to communism, arc being moved out of larger cities ' Mikolajczyk said he suspects that gasoline, meat and grain are being stored for use by the Red Army. I. ate this afternoon it was agn'unoed that Vancouver Kil'jTt, scheduled to meet Prince Rupert Challengers in a basketball series this week-end, had abandtneri their flight after being grounded at Ocean Falls and will arrive here Monday morning aboard the steamer Princess Louise. The games will probably be played Tues- , day and Wednesday nights. This bulletin supercedes sports page announcements of games tonight and tomorrow. Record Time On Atlantic f"m here upon completion of ; loading. Slit will move from the . elevator to an oil dock tomorrow j and sail Monday. Her speed is i seventeen and a half knots, pow-1 ered by twin diesel engines. NtW HOPE FOR LEPERS New wonder drug Diar-onc h;s brought fresh hope to lonely .ullerrrs at lep.-r colony on Bentlnck Island, wh h l..s off Vancouver Island in sight of Victoria. The drug c ompletely arrests pain and disease and many are able to return home. Four victims H Han -ens disease now at the colony include two new cases recently discovered in Vancouver, j , li 14-year-old Chinese boy. A second leper colony is at Tracadle, N.B. iCP PHOTOi ' M'st modern in design with n In Japan, living conditions are flarins bow. the new freighter is I LONDON A Kale, With j winds blowing a hundred aiiles an hour "speed, blew a trans-i world airliner Constellation across t he Atlantic acean in near j record time. I The airliner completed the crossing to Shannon, Ireland, from St. John's, Nfld., in five hours, eight minutes," which is five minutes longer than the ! record set in 1948. Leper Boy's, lonely Life j equipped with the latest In radar, j returning to normal, food, which automatic steering and gyro 'as scarce at first after the war, compass navigational aids. is rnore available now, says Capt. Crew's quarters as well as those ! Iwatsuka, but housing Is at a of Uie officers are modern and premium. Cotton mills and ship-comfortable. A crew of 56 In- building are in full swing, he eludes several boy seamen and says. a"d constitute the 'major young officers in training. j portion of industry in the coun- The captain himself has visit-itry. cii the B.C. coast many times in what about silk? his 35 years of shipping. 20 years' "Not much silk Is manufactures fkipper. but this is his first ed today. American and Cana-liip to Prince Rupert. He is a dian women wear your own V'ry friendly man and speaks manufactured nylon which is Fierce Gale Hits Europe Sinking Ships Reported From Spain to Denmark LONDON 0 Howling hurricane winds washed mountainous seas over sinking ships along Europe's Atlantic coast today and set off a series of frantic distress calls. At least seven threatened ves- Levis Blames Mine Company For Explosion Conservatives Give up' Fight Anti Price-Fix Bill Finally Approved OTTAWA (CP) The House of Commons night adopted the government's contentious contentious ;;ntinck island, b.c. o - I war ami y't so far from the; :hi Ir hts of Victoria, the oy II call Jimmy leads a lonely lor a fun-loving youngster; BENTON, Illinois t- John L.' Lewis Friday blamed the mine Rood English, which he has stu- much cheaper than silk," he No Man s Land Set in Suez management for the blast which died himself. 1 laughed. anti-price-fixing bill after defeating the one last, 14. see?, including two American (,0,1K 111 lives in No. 2 mine near ; Mr i.v separated from his Jam-1 attempt by Progressive Conservatives Conservatives to have the freighters, raidioed SOS signals. west Frankfort last Friday. One ship was driven aground. I Lewis' romnu ni, followed -.: .l.mmviHn victim nfteu-! legislation SllCIVCf Over Million Casualties Chinese and Korean Coihmunists Suffer Heavily Others were taking water rapid-! preliminary rcoort from the! CAIRO (CP) British and Egypt -ly, and-lH serious danger, . . united. Slate. Bureau, trf. Mines i r.in .couunandcrs have rccd on The 6.711-ton United States wliich said electricity set off the ! a six-mile-wide no-man's lanu Booting - of - Land Deal Shortly before adjournment, George Dtew, Progressive Conservative leader, announced his party was calling a halt to its seven-day battle against the meusurp as It. wns evident his , nne ui two new caws of V.' ('liilcd Hansen's' dis-c iIim ovdvd iii Vancouver la nut months. C'iiikf the lepers of the past, n up to a few years ago, SEOUL (CP) Chinese and North Korean armies have suffered 1,515,688 casualties in country's worst coal mine disas- i between their respective troops tor in twenty-three years. . along the Cairo-Suez road, it was The United Mine Workers' j announced today, president, in an interview, said j General Saad El Din Sabotir, that the Chicago," Wilmington j Egyptian .army liaison officer, and Franklin Coal Co. knew three said the arrangement was made freighter F 1 y In g Enterprise, carrying a crew of forty and ten passengers out of Hamburg, said she was listing 45 degrees and "still taking water." She was wallowing eff the southwest tip of England. Help was standing party would have to bow t0 the the Korean war, a United States Eighth Army brief-WAf: nnIZt'trrt ing officer reported today. The officer said that the m.1v luis hope. Thanks to new' bl,,,n A Wpm tthi,h has a;., he feels no physical Pa'''' booted around to three levels of to five days before the explosion ! to prevent possible clashes be u s'line uay il is iiKt-iy nc win government will rest at the door- tween the two forces. by the Flying Enterprise and was that the mine was dangerous. jbie io leave the lonely world r, , ,K i.,i fiou.se 10 reject wnai ne aescrio- uniietl ivauons troops mulcted 110, 1 oailie casuai- IM.Hnek Island and return to. , -f - . . . nvnrnmn, a an ni-conS,o. re0 meas- ;! life. ties on the Reds since truce talks started at Kaesong last July 20. ....... - -- mr, mi. Drew moved the legis- hrus asked the city to pay buc . .. . .... , at hand or on the way to oiner threatened ships. Winds as high as 89 miles an hour whipped up the worst eastern Atlantic storm in many years. Ports and airports are closed en Jimmy and three jVe lots half of the properly Retaliation on Hungary mouili." hence. This is a techni- r lepers on this clover leaf on which the Civic Centre build- m Mm u .,. ;.. legislation. Thursday turned the conlenious K " mutter back to llic associatujii. Ouposslion Leader's mo- Awarded Air I Fj"a, ites For iiiiii was (leieaien oy a voie oi 111 to 27 with the Progressive 1 '.'!-(l island, only 20 miles from iMpital of British Columbia. Riven i eeeiii ly by the man in of. their welfare. It. was iViinisllr report. D R B Jenkins told, for in-i". of the progress made by .. a jolly, pot -bellied man. Weather wm A ! rJ. VI tflUtf WASHINGTON, D.C. United States has set midnight Monday as the deadline for Hungary to close its consulates in Cleveland and New York Cit y. Thus is taken one of. two Conservatives winning support in many places. I Coastal towns from Spain to Denmark have been battered. . Hundreds of small boats sank ! at anchor on the French and English coasts. Tidal floods hit river mouths i all along the shore. Council advised the deputy land commissioner to communicate directly with the association as it saw no reason why the I city should be held ic.spon.s.ole. torce Lross only from J. L. Gibson ilndepen ilenl. Comox-Albcrnii. Liberals, Synopsis Cold polar air covers the cen With many friends attending Hi.; rite, funeral service for the late Mrs. Jennie BrenUcn of Pert Simpson took place this afternoon ten at the Grenville Court CCFers and Social Credit mem-j bers vole,! against the motion. OTTAWA --Wing Coinman- tral and northern portions of i K,.e.,.l hvisl,.i. una eMllerf hu 1 Her - J. - V. - M11CI1CU Ol loronwi, ,s , ,,! u uj : , major steps in retaliation for Hungarian treatment of four United Stales airmen who were forced down in Hungary. the Conservatives on third lead-i'" '"r Chapel of B.C. Undertakers. Rev British Columbia today and will ; move southward to cover the j j remainder of the province by to- j oiu' m i, , negative test and he It all began this way: When y he permit led to return to the former YMC'A War Services ' home and family. He has building was turned over to the 'i a negative test each month War. AaseU Deparlment of the i 'lie last 11 months. , federal government, the latter TV onlv visible trace of dis- expropriated the lands 10 lots, nil o ie mil. t,- j Canon Basil S. Procktcr, rector ! of St. Andrew's Cathedral, off i- Students Criticize College Training Thj other is a ban on Amei! ! morrow. RruelUiig and most daring of The measure, which now goes ! to l he Senate for three readings 1 UWita In the Arctic, has been followed in Snow will occur over the ! can travel in Hungary. ..,.U,n.n llnl lnr! nnrl f,l- I ciatvd. Interment Fairvicw cemetery. awaracci me Air rorce vross ior ' 11 Jimniv is a slight discoi- nan oi wiucn ouongi u tai.n anrt Roval awenl, was also adop-iii"ii or the left hand of the me city and to the provincial ion by a vote of 111 to 27. ii!ii",ii-Ciii.adian youngster. i government. , Kneedy passage through the between United States and So Mrs. J. C. Gilker presided at ' TORONTO (CP) University of morrow with snow flurries along Hie organ to accompany the Toronto students gave their 'he south coast. The north coast will be sliming of the hymns "Unto the opinion of today's universities in and northern interior Senate Is expected with Royal assent following immediately. viet satellites to a bare minimum although a complete diplomatic break has bc.m ordered out. The oilier two patients have 't bei'ii as fortunate. The dis- bravery, fortitude and devotion to duty. The Air Force, in announcing the award Friday, told of how the 35-year-cld Second World War pilot, fighting northern gales, extreme fatigue and peril clear and cold through Sunday. Gale Warning ' had gone too far before an itivi- treatment was disrov- North Coast Region Gale TIIK KI-I KASli continued. Cloudy with . warning h united states air Hill.-." and "Sweet Hour of Pray- a series of articles in a special ei ." which were favorites of de- ' year-end issue of The Varsity, ( ,'aseil. i student newspaper. Old friends of the family 1 They were not Impressed. David Drane, Charles Barker, j Modem students are more Barry Wilson, John Flewin, Wil- concerned with earning than liam Flewin and William Bacon , learning and arc too concerned acted as pallbearers. i w'lb studies to bother about edu' There were numerous and cation, a number of senior stu- Victoria Launching snow flurries in southern section, clear remainder of region today. Clear and cold over region tonight and tomorrow. Wind northerly 25. occasionally men, who had been hold by Hungary for forty days, crossed the Austrian frontier at Nickelsdorf back to freedom at 5;01 Austrian time. Lust night. When the Civic Centre Association purchased the building from the federal government, an agreement was made that would I ree the senior government from all responsibility if the province decided it would want back the property. Recrntly the department of lands has requested reimburse-; incut for the lands and the latest move has been to suggest that the city otter similar properties in return. Meanwhile,' . tnu association executive are negotiating for a grant of the properly. I In crossing uncharted Arctic areas, succeeded in bringing out i a weather station official who j was dangerously ill from blood poisoning. The heroic 5.844-mile trip, longest in the history of Royal Canadian Air Force mercy flights. Sink has been on Bentinck alimisl 15 years. The disease H blinder! htm. Ling Is thin ! 1,1 wasted, the fingers of one '"I 'iff and gnarled. IV' Dr. Jenkins said new drugs 'I' (liason,. have made a "dra-I'ic change" in the picture in Walter J, Donnelly, United : Jents concluded. Ralph Wintrob said this attitude was defeating I the meaning and purpose of a university. beautiful floral tributes. British Private Winner of VC was made in September lH!u from Edmonton to Eureka Sound, R00 miles north of the Arctic Circle and about 500 nautical miles from the North Pole. reaching 40 in mainland inlets, j Lows tonight and highs tomor-; row Port Hardy, 25 and 33; ; ; Sandspit, 25 and 35; Prince Rupert. 20 and 30. Prince George, Bulkley Valley, Northern B.C. Clear and cold today and tomorrow. Wind north 30, becoming north 15 this afternoon, light tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow Prince George, 15 below and 5 above; Smlthers, 15 below and 5 above; Telegraph Rev. R. S. K. Seeley, provost ot Trinity College, said that a university has three functions: lo raise the general level of education; to train experts in a wide professional field; to provide community leadership. No one knows if tlie university can ""' HI, years. ! H'' said the drugs arrest the ' 1 '' .' so completely that some in,i'Ts are, abl.' to return to 'lll'i'' homes. Others, he said, '""M remain in their homes j '''l'' undergoing treatment but : 'lie public's horror and mis-; "iiileivlaiuliiig of the disease. ! ')n.sy is one of the most; ' illiciill, rli.spiiKPX tn cnnlract. he: VICTORIA First naval vessel to be launched here since tic, end of World War II, HMCS Porte de la Heine, slid down the ways Friday. The ship is a 125-foot gate vessel built on the exact pattern of AUanllc. trawlers, II, is vxpectcd she will serve off the Atlantic coast, probably in Newfoundland waters. Getting Colder Here Today SEOUL. Korea P'-A British private was Friday awarded the Expects Big Labor Demand Stales ambassador at Vienna, went lo the Austrian fronlier to greet the men. The United Stales government hail agreed In pay $120,000 in fines levied against the men on rhnrgrs of violating the Hungarian border provided they were promptly released. The fliers are: Captain John J. Swift, pilot. i Caotain David H Henderson, j co-pilot. ; Technical Sergeant Jesse A. Duff, mechanic. j Sergeant James A, Dlam, radio man. ...... i The four fliers were forced down by Soviet fighters Novem- Creek, 25 below and 10 below. Westview Hotel Swept by Fire WESTVIEW Thirty occupants escaped without serious injury Friday when a $35,000 fire damaged the Marine Hotel here. Guests were awakened by Mrs. Victoria Cross-Britain's highest pcriorm an three mines, ire said, decoration for gallantry by I A number of students criticlz-reading a series of hand grenade ! "I Uie system of examinations charges through withering Com-! ahd competition with fellow munist fire I students. The only competition ' The second Victoria Cross to "'l l"c competition of j be awarded in the Korean war Ideas, said Horace Krever. "(i H. jvas much easier to be-j OTTAWA (I" -Canada will haw " "'"c i (, --t.i-tl with tuberculosis, fi.rt)n(, demand lor labor in 11)52 aM''' though there may be "spotty" ''iniadii lias one other leper iiiirniplyment through the year, h"'lital. at Tracadle. N.B. It Labor Minister Gregg predicted Dr. Charhonneau Joins Qrs. Large goes to Pte. William Speakman i Molly Thomas, cook in the li-inf the Aro-vll nnri Sutherland k A isii.iiiy bus around 11 patients. ; yesterday. In his annual New Year state-1 Winter's breath was again felt room hotels cafe, after the fire j Highlanders, attached to the. fTy MOOf broken out below the at-hud kit- ;""ie seicncR works, cvery-'m possihlo is dune to case the """'ly life of the ncoulc of Bent- London Scottish Borderers. ( H, mliilnlnr uM it. IK IHSl lllgnL IIS UfllipC! UtU I US ,,..,..',, , L,ikii,. ,,f Diabv Island slid down to 13 chert. Dr. L. P. Charbonneau. a 1946 bt'r 19 011 Hungarian territory, graduate of Laval University in The United States protested Quebec, who has 'been associated that the unarmed cargo plane with tlie Department of Indian 'wa on a routine mission to carry Major General A. J. H. Cassels, s: j Reaches Tokyo of 12 to Cause of the fire was not im- Jimmy gets his schoolinguhe jn51 inbor-picture, will carry ove. Temperatures 14; commander of the First Com iwere recorded on various house- mediately determined. i I'.sponcience. The Islands;, .,, ,t ., Hf.,nep iniins niomveallh Division, will pin the ribbon on Speakman Sunday. .,,,.. ilUU III AU JVC! o , K'-'-en-trlmmed cot-i tries speed up. s ''oiild puss for summer cot-1 Hf's. , I Another Prince Rupert soldier j Affairs in Piince Rupert for the supplies from Germany to the has landed in Japan enroute to past three years, will be joining United States embassy at Bcl-tlie Korean battlefront. I the practice of the Large Clinic grade but the Hungarians said it hold thermometers throughout I Firemen from here and Powell ! the city. j River fought the b'aze for 2'2 j Colder temperatures are gen- j hours before bringing it under jCial in the city, said the Digby f control. ; Island weatherman, mainly be- cause of higher altitude and LEAD HOBBY LONDON (CP) Four nrettvl Cpl. Larry Moore, son of Mr. iDr:; R. G. and A. W. Large), on was a spy mission and fined the The - T iDES - patients are cared for by! dress models will fly to Australia and Mrs. R. E. Moore reached January 1. " I four $30,000 each on charges of -1 rosirljiMl , i i I In January to help popularize losyo loaay aooara tne trans- jjr. unarDonneau. previous to viuiaumg uie ooraer. Dccoinber 30, 1351 port General Gordon. coming to Prince Rupert, spent The United States offered in ; 2:48 . 20 7 feet more exposure. it nas Deen esumaieu mat British styles in preparation ior u 97 93 3 feet. I Snow on the ground is meas- stamp collectors outnumber the! the Australian tour by Princess The locally born boy is serving ! two years In the Ottawa General note Christmas Day to pay the .... .ii, uuiae who liei uua- ";u"1 Once a week Dr. Jenkins Sunday, !'"mes to the island. Along with High professional duties, he brings lwm their only contact with the Low uiije world. j 8:29 6.9 feet ! ured at 12 inches to date at sea followers of any other hobby in Elizabeth and the Duke of Edln- with the 66th Field Army of the Hospital and six months In St. : fines and the Hungarian govern- 21 :08 0.9 feet I level, , the world. i burgh. I unitea aiaies Army. j Michael s Hospital m Toronto. I mer.t accepted the offer.