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24
PRINCE
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MONDAY,
JANUARY
29,
1951
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Westview
Pier
Is
Destroyed
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Further
Indication
Of
Speeding
Project
VANCOUVER
(CP)-Work
will
start
"almost
immediately"
on
the
construction
of
a
10-mile
road
into
the
site
of
the
$500,000,000
aluminum
development
in
northern
British
Columbia.
Word
reached
Vancouver
Sunday
that
the
Aluminum
Co.
of
Canada
lias
awarded
a
ro'ad-building
contract
to
a
Toronto
Fighting
To
BULLETINS
Stop
First
ee7fe
Program
L
)NI)ON
(CP)
Prime
Minister
Clement
Attlee
j
ued
today
that
Britain
will
call
up
235,000
V
reserves
for
15
clays'
training
this
summer.
At
ne
time
the
Royal
Air
Force
will
recall
10,000
i
t-
and
men
from
its
own
i-eserves.
WESTVIEW.
A
$400,000
fire,
which
raged
for
several
hours
Saturday
afternoon,
destroyed
the
government
wharf,
freight
LAKE
SUCCESS
The
Asian-
Arab
bloc
today
modified
Its
Kor
shed
at
this
residential
suburo
of
Powell
River.'
Fire
fighters
construction
firm.
ean
peace
plan
formula
once
more
ln
an
effort
to
head
off
United
Nations
approval
of
American
demands
for
indictment
of
Communist
China
as
an
prevented
the
spread
to
nearby
oil
storage
tanks.
The
Westview
fire
department
The
report
said
that
British
Columbia
equipment
and
British
Columbia
workers
will
be
used
"as
much
as
possible."
The
road
will
run
Inland
from
Kemano
Bay
to
the
Kemano
powerhouse
site
in
from
was
aided
by
that
from
nearby
:iee
save
this
informa-lie
start
of
a
statement
1
iuso
ot
Commons
out-leat
Britain's
plans
lor
rnt
against
Communist
in.
He'said
Britain's
to-
Cranberry
Lake.
A
firetug
was
MacArthur
At
Korean
Front
1
TOKYO.
After
returning
yesterday
from
a
flight
to
the
front
fighting
line
in
Korea,
General
Douglas
MacArthur
said
'
that
The
revised
plan,
submitted
shortly
after
the
general
assembly's
60-nation
political
-
committee
imt
this
morning,
calls
for
-
an
immediate
seven-power
conference
on
the
China-Korea
r.ce
lorces
wm
iiumuci
April.
Found
Dead
In
His
Cabin
Richard
Miller,
05,
was
found,
apparently
dead,
In
his
cabin
in
the
300
block,
Eleventh
Avenue
East,
about
noon
yesterday.
An
old
friend,
William
Lund,
found
1)0.000
compares
with
April
1930.
problem
but
adds
this
important
imp
Minister
said
the
sent
down
from
Powell
River.
Origin
of
the
fire
is
undeter-!
mined.
The
ruins
were
still
smouldering
today
and
It
was
feared
a
stiff
westerly
wind
might
cause
it
to
spread.
Firemen
guarded
against
further
outbreak.
The
wharf
was
built
ln
1946.
It
wa?
400
feet
long.
A
shift
ln
the
wind
came
just
a
the
fire
was
threatening
the
gas
storage
tanks.
This
enabled
fiiemen
to
eet
within
fiehtine
!it
docs
not
believe
war
"The
stake
we
fight
for
now
is
more
than
Korea.
It's
a
free
Asia."
1;
It
was
General
MacArthur'
provision:
"Representatives
will
,at
then-
feble
but
it
believes
Communists
Fight
Again
first
meeting,
agree
upon
an
ap
I.
not
be
ensured
unless
of
the
free
world
are
WANT
ATOMIC
PLEDGE
WASHINGTON
Premier
Fiavin
of
France
arrived
in
Washinfton
today
to
seek
assurances
from
President
Truman
that
the
I'nited
Slates
will
retaliate
immediately
with
an
atomic
bomb
in
the
event
that
Russian
armies
invade
France.
This
was
reported
today.
Flavin
will
be
here
until
Wednesday
when
h?
wil!
proceed
to
Ottawa.
"The
great
purpose"
of
his
visit
"is
to
make
co-operation
between
United
States
and
France
even
closer
than
it
is
in
every
field
within
the
Atlantic
pact."
TO
ROLL
BACK
PRICES
WASHINGTON.
DC.
(CP)-Price
Chief
Mischacl
Disalle
said
last
nieht
that
"substantial
rollbacks"
in
prices
of
a
arondrtofitt"mS
T&erea
as
soon
M
his
aPncy
can
et
FATAL
Sl'DBL'RY
FIRE
Sl'DBl'BY,
Ont.
Three
children
were
burned
to
death
yesterday
when
fire,
apparently
caused
by
an
exploding
oil
stove,
destroyed
their
three-room
home
on
the
outskirts
of
Sudbury.
The
three
victims
were
Jules
Mathieu,
aged
5;
Gerald,
3.
and
Rita.
two.
The
bodies
found
were
in
the
bed
in
which
they
were
sleeping
when
the
fire
broke
out.
Jean
Guy
Maythieu,
the
father,
suffered
burns
on
more
than
fifty
percent
of
his
body.
His
wife
Therese,
suffered
shock
and
minor
burns.
SHIfs
ii
DISTRESS
NEW
YORK
At
least
three
ships
are
reported
in
distress
today
off
the
Spanish
coast
after
encountering
storms
and
heavy
seas.
The
Panamanian
tanker
Janko
and
the
British
freighters
Castledore
and
Hartlepool
are
damaged.
The
British
tanker
Talisman
has
broken
in
two.
MANNERHEIM
DEAD
y
lAI.'S.WNP,JBwirJnd.-Fejd
Marshal
Karon
Cart
CmUi.
Mannerheim,
83,
Finland's
national
hero,
former
Premier
and
leader
against
Russia
in
two
wars,
died
Saturday
night
in
hospital.
The
old
soldier,
one
known
as
the
"uncrowned
King
Of
Finland,"
succumbed
to
heart
failure
after
an
emergency
operation.
propriate
cease
fire
arrangement
in
Korea
and,
after
It
has
been
put
ln
effect,
they
will
proceed
l
Iciently
strong
to
de
pressor.
-54
Great
Britain
will
with
their
further
deliberations."
ninth
flying
visit
to
the
war"
front
in
Korea.
Enthusiastic
and
full
of
banter,
he
landed
at
Su-won
airport
which
had
been
reri
captured
from
the
Chinese
Corrr
munists
only
a
few
days
before
MacArthur
was
met
by
Gen;
Matthew
Ridgeway
who
told
tha
commander-in-chief
that
since
I
irupled
her
output
of
'This
provision
was
inserted
distance
of
the
flames.
TOKYO
Chinese
Communists
are
fighting
back
again
in
Korea
United
Nations
forces
had
reached
within
ten
miles
of
Seoul
in
after
numerous
delegates
objec
Two
hundred
spectators,
stand
ing
on
the
dock,
cringed
when
flames
and
smoke
broke
through
ted
strongly
to
any
Far
Eastern
discussions
while
fighting
was
In
progress
in
Korea.
United
States,
still
seeking
to
condemn
Communist
China
western
Korea
today
when
the
counter-attack
started.
It
was
behind
them.
Some
groped
their
January
1
no
less
than
120,000
Chinese
Communists
had
been
way
out
of
dense
smoke
while
others
waded
to
safety.
described
as
the
heaviest
enemy
offensive
in
the
current
phase
of
casualties
with
44.000
dead.
Cold
I
aircraft,
Mr.
Attlee
J.
pandfd
program
will
0.000,000
i
$14,
100,000,-
the
next
three
years,
!
ares
with
the
govcrn-imate
of
3,600,000,000
A
September
for
the
t
.il
Navy
will
call
up
enlisted
men
and
600
r
48
months'
service,
!
.me
Minister
said
the
i-up
nili
include
men
With
the
destruction
of
the
him
and
reported
the
matter
to
the
police.
The
city
ambulance
was
dispatched
to
the
scene
and
the
inhalator
applied
for
about
a
half-hour
until
the
arrival
of
a
doctor.
He
was
then
pronounced
dead.
Born
ln
Scotland,
Mr.
Miller
was
first
a
blacksmith.
During
World
War
II,
he
served
as
a
guard
here
with
the
Canadian
Army.
Being
of
a
sociable
and
friendly
nature,
he
made
many
friends
here
and
was
well
liked
by
his
neighbors.
,
He
was
seen
Saturday
afternoon
by
Mr.
Lund,
who
said
he
seemed
to
be
In
good
health.
The
cabin
was
cold
when
he
was
found
Sunday.
A
bachelor,
he
is
believed
to
be
survived
by
a
sister
In
forthwith
as
the
aggressor,
has
been
particularly
emphatic
on
this
point.
Westview
wharf,
It
is
expected
the
fighting.
However,
official
coastal
liners
will
be
diverted
to
reports
said
tnat
the
attacks
were
weather
and
disease
had
also
taken
toll
of
the
enemy.
MacArthur
went
by
jeep
to
within
one
mile
of
the
fighting
line
south
of
Seoul
and
ilew
Powell
River
docks.
being
repulsed
or
contained
by
the
Eighth
Army
which
reported
advances
-of
up
"to"
three
inllca
along
the
40-mile
western
front.
rcralt
command.
lmr
uut
rttu-'nt'TCi
city;
'
Before
returning
to
Tokyo,
the
general
tried,
with
his
unarmed
transport
plane,
to
join
in
a
B29
bomb
run
over
Seoul
but
he
was
just
too
late
to
get
in
the
formation
before
the
bombs
fell.
Old
Session
Prorogues
i
Opening
of
New
to
Take
Place
at
Ottawa
Tomorrow
And
Fires
The
counter-offensive
came
after
several
days
of
slow
and
cautious
advance
for
the
United
Nations
across
the
entire
Korean
line.
The
U.N.
gains
had
been
carefully
consolidated
against
the
posibility
of
the
counter-attack.
DEATH
IN
FOX
HOLES
Today
Chinese
Communists
died
fighting
in
their
fox-holes
ln
the
mountains.
They
resisted
to
the
bitter
end
the
wary
but
seemingly
relentless
Allied
e
Deaths
OTTAWA
0
Parliament
met
HCfl'O
9
-Week-end
fires
Apartment
We
On
Park
Avenue
Considerable
damage
was
caused
in
a
series
of
apartments
at
1113
Park
Avenue
about
1:15
p.m.
yesterday
by
a
fire
started
by
thawing
pipes
with
burning
paper.
The
fire
department
got
to
the
scene
before
the
fire
had
too
great
a
hold.
Some
firemen
said
this
morinng
that
had
they
been
later
or
if
there
had
been
a
wind
there
might
have
been
much
more
extensive
damage.
'
Two
minor
calls
were
answered
by
the
department
Saturday.
One
was
to
a
chimney
fire
at
1045
Sixth
Avenue
east,
a
dwelling
owned
by
D.
Gable;
the
other,
a
flooded
oil
burner
in
a
dwelling
at
525
Sixth
Avenue
west.
No
damage
resulted
in
either
case.
Red
Envoys;
Restricted
i
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
I
The
'aiiadiims
nrl
rnnsprl
Rescue
From
Ski
Ground
A
six-hour
rescue
effort
yesterday
got
William
(Monk)
Sun-
OVERCOME
BY
GAS
Waterfront
Workmen
Partially
Suffocated
Kenneth
G.
Bosworth,
foreman
for
the
Western
Plywoods
at
Prince
Rupert,
and
two
employees
of
the
company
Herb
Chandler
of
Prince
Rupert
and
Walter
Solnik
of
Vancouver
are
in
Prince
Rupert
Associated
Press
Correspondent
r
iamage
estimated
at
f
$1,300,000.
Eight
of
s
were
children.
!
r
u
c
k
at
scattered
's
tne
country
dur-
United
States
today
forbade
the
diplomatic
representative
t!-
briefly
today
and
prorogued
the
special
session
which
had
been
adjourned
from
last
September
after
the
general
rail
strike
had
been
settled
and
after
the
government
had
been
authorized
to
recruit
a
special
army
force
for
use
in
Korea
or
elsewhere.
The
prorogation
will
be
followed
ln
twenty-four
hours
tomorrow
by
formal
opening
of
a
new
session
a
session
thai
Is
expected
to
be
lengthy
because
of
the
international
situation
and
many
complex
problems
will
be
stemming
from
It.
ifiRht
of
a
general
mid-
Hungary
to
travel
beyond
an
12-mile
zone
around
the
Whit!
House
except
by
special
permission.
Jim
Becker
reported
130
Reds
killed
on
one
hill
alone.
Only
eight
were
captured.
Air
strikes
and
artillery
raked
enemy
positions
but
United
Nations
infantrymen
finally
scrambled
up
the
frozen
hillsides
to
blast
out
the
Reds
with
hand
grenades
and
rifle
fire.
'
cfd
wae.
a
Canadian
berg
to
hospital
with
a
fractured
ankle
Xrom
the
skiing
grounds
on
Mount
Oldfield.
Sunberg
was
with
a
party
of
skiers
at
the
top
of
Mount
Old-field
when
he
had
an
accident
which
caused
the
injury.
Andy
Marshall
led
the
rescue.
He
'
shoftrd
today.
The
order
is
the
second
ofthHt
General
Hospital
this
afternoon
suffering
from
the
sort
issued
recently
against
the
Soviet
bloc
states
in
retaliation
effects
of
partial
suffocation.
They
were
overcome
by
bilge
Weather
I
Floods
1
.
Contract
For
The
government's
program
for
the
new
session
will
remain
a
secret
until
the
Governor-Gen
gas
in
a
log
-carrying
barge
the
GriffsOn
which
was
loading
TODAY'S
STOCKS
sklied
to
a
cabin
near
the
sum-
j
mlt
and
brought
back
a
toboggan
on
which
the
Injured
man
was
taken
to
the
cabin.
Stan
Comwell
then
proceeded
to
town
to
pick
up
a
stretcher
from
the
fire
department.
He
met
the
for
restrictions
January
2
on
movements
of
American
representatives
in
Hungary.
For
the
same
reason
travel
In
the
United
States
by
diplomats
of
Communist
Romania
has
been
restricted
for
the
last
fcifiht
months.
.
.
at
the
Prince
Rupert
dry
dock
eral,
Viscount
Alexander,
reads
.ere;
T"-(fnnrtsy
8.
n.
Johnston
Co.
Ltd.)
,L
,
"
',
Sandspit
Job
with
cottonwood
logs
from
Terrace
for
delivery
to
the
company's
mill
at
New
Westminster.
T
,u'
southern
Van-
party
about
halfway
up
the
hill
and
transferred
Sunberg
to
the
VANCOUVER
American
Standard
37
the
Speech
from
the
Throne
at
the
opening
which
Is
scheduled
for
3
p.m.
Eastern
Standard
Time
(12
noon
Pacific
Standard
Time)
Tuesday.
T""'u
Highways
and
f
evacuation
of
several
God's
Lake
Hardrock
Harricana
Heva
Hosco
stretcher
from
the
toboggan.
Bralorne
7-50
Contract
has
been
awarded
to
the
Hanson
Company
of
Vancou
.50
.35
H'j,
.14
.07
.
1.04
ver
for
construction
at,
uust
of
Joliet
Quebec
Lake
Rowan
11
;
f'bsided
at
the
week-"'Perniures
dropped.
r;
Unuous
days
of
heavy
!
pHin
snow
and
hlDh
f';s
backed
up
into
(
f
Koksiiah
and
Cow-f
which
drain
out
-I
lowlands
near
their
'
f
st,
trouble
spot
was
Hockey
Scores
SATURDAY
Pacific
Coast
Tacoma
4,
Vancouver
2.
New
Westminster
8,
Portland
3.
Mainline-Okanagan
$70,000
of
the
new
administration
building
at
Sandspit
airport,
Queen
Charlotte
Islands,
according
to
an
announcement
by
thi
Department
of
Transport.
The
Work
Is
to
be
finished
by
June.
The
building
will
accomodate
the
D.C.T.'s
radio
range
and
Atom
Blasts
Disturbing
Chandler
and
Solnik
had
gone
into
the
bilge
to
check
the
tanks
for
water.
When
they
were
uver-come,
Bosworth
went
ln
to
start
a
rescue
and
himself
was
overcome.
City
fire
department
and
ambulance
sped
to
the
scene
with
inhalators
as
the
men
were
hauled
up
to
the
pier
by
other
workers.
Doctors
also
were
soon
on
the
scene
and
proceeded
to
the
hospital
with
the
patients.
According
to
early
reports,
Chandler
was
ln
the
most
serious
It
was
tough
slugging
down
the
mountainside
which
had
a
trail
only
wl'de
enough
for
one
person.
It
was
dark
before
the
party
reached
the
bottom
of
the
hill
and
new
trail
had
to
be
broken
nearly
all
the
way
down.
Thev
were
met
at
Wantage
Road
by
the
city
ambulance.
The
accident
occurred
about
2
p.m.
and
the
party
met
the
ambulance
about
8
p.m.
Sunberg
was
taken
by
ambulance
to
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital.
,
B.
R.
X
04V4
Cariboo
Quartz
,
1.20
Congress
.08
Hedley
Mascot
.02
Yz
Pacific
Eastern
05
Pend
Oreille
9.00
Pioneer
2.10
Premier
Border
08
Privateer
10
Reeves
McDonald
4
60
Sheep
Creek
1-65
Silbak
Premier
29
Taku
River
06
Vanada
:
12
Salmon
Gold
-
03
Vi
Silver
Standard
2.65
Western
Uranium
148
Oils-Anelo
Canadian
5.40
communication
equipment
as
'"
1
miles
north
nf
Little
Long
Lac
87
Madsen
Red
Lake
2.70
McLeod
Cockshutt
3.15
Moneta
42
Negus
1.18
Noranda
78.00
Louvicourt
..:
26
Regicourt
05
San
Antonio
3.05
Senator
Rouyn
.23
Sherrltt
Gordon
4.35
f'P
SPVPPuT
Df.
,
well
as
weather
reporting
service
and
.commercial
airlines
and
customs
and
Immigration
LAS
VEGAS
0)
The
third
atomic
blast
in
four
days
jolted
this
desert
gambling
town
early
yesterday
and
everybody
who
felt
it
agreed
it
was
by
far
the
Hooded.
aters
covering
the
'.various
points
bo-na
and
Duncan
fror.e
iNanaimo
iz,
vernon
o.
MO-WIL
Interleague
Kamloops
5,
Spokane
1.
,
SUNDAY
'
Pacific
Coast
New
Westminster
2,
Portland
6.
t
Victoria.
2,
Seattle
1.
MO-WIL
Interleague
Kamloops
3,
Spokane
6.
'
Other
members
of
the
party
"'"
Mrs.
Ness
Marshall.
Miss
"8
stretches
of
ice-
Edith
Jordan,
Don
and
Brick
Weather
Steep
Rock
10.12
'a
Silver
Miller
1.15
Golden
Manltou
6.45
cement.
Eby,
Harold
Marshall,
Alan
Fred-heim,
Sandy
Hamilton,
George
'deeded
in
rrnnlrirrr
Synopsis
Cold,
freezing
weather
contln
ln
the
Canadian
Na-'ays
transcontinental
Fraser
Caiw,
nn
Smith,
Nell
Forman
.
and
one
other.
All
helped
ln
getting
the
t
J
injured
man
to
safety.
'
Vancouver.
A
rock
BASKE
TBALL
Red
Crab
Banned
Produced
By
Slave
Labor
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
(C?i
Re-ports
of
slave
labor
In
Russia
have
caused
the
first
United
Some
members
of
the
party
nearly
reached
the
point
of
ex
ued
over
British
Columbia
this
morning
with
only
Cape
St.
James
reporting
a
temperature
above
freezing.
In
the
central
interior
Prince
George,
by
early
K
,uat
carried
away
strongest
of
the
three.
The
Atomic
Energy
Commission
again
shrouded
its
experiments
ln
silence
but
residents
of
Las
Vegas
and
the
vicinity
heard
plenty.
Some
were
rather
irked
about
the
whole
business.
Yesterday's
explosion,
occurring
about
6
a.m.,
was
described
as
resembling
two
great
thunder
claps.
Hundreds
of
witnesses
beheld
a
tremendous
white
flash
in
the
sky,
closely
followed
by
another
flash,
orange
in
color
and
not
as
bright.
The
first
test
came
last
Wednesday
night.
it
1,1
'eet
deep.
WRANGELL
HIGH
WOLVES
Tonight
'"-
s
receded
after
rtnlann
i-
,
A.
P.
Con
:
.38
Atlantic
-
2.60
Calmont
90
C.
&
E
-
11.75
Central
Leduc
2.30
Home
Oil
-
-
16-25
Mercury
t.
1
Okalta
2.63
Pacific
Pete
8.25
Princess
165
Royal
Canadian
09
&
TORONTO
Aumaque
.30
Beattie
.70
Bevcourt
-50
haustion
during
the
incident,.
TideS
r
i
li..
"
w,e
tower
f
J
and
about
3D
mii
I
of
morning,
had
fallen
to
36
below
zero,
while
in
the
southern
Interior
Princeton
reported
a
temperature
of
27
below
the
lowest
in
this
area.
In
the
coastal
areas
temperatures
ranged
from
11
above
at
Abbotsford
to
the
low
couver.
States
import
ban
against
Soviet
products
since
the
two
countries
'
Tuesday,
January
30.
1951
High
6:02
19.7
feet
18:49
15.9
feet
Low.
12:46
6.8
feet
20s
along
the
northern
coast
I
I
t
;
I
The
second
occurred
Saturday
Coming
Going
No
change
ln
present
weather
Prince
Rupert
RAINMAKERS
2nd
game
of
series
tnmnrrnm
night,
.
.
(Tuesday).
.
.
.
Same
time!
Same
place!
CIVIC
CENTRE
8:30
p.m.
Tickets
50c
and
75c
Bobjo
.16Vi
1
Two
new
members
were
In
at
about
the
same
time
as
today's.
It
felt
as
if
the
first
two
were
simply
build-ups
for
the
Sunday
punch.
h
-Tho
m,.
established
diplomatic
relations
in
1933.
Department,
of
the
Treasury
yesterday
prohibited
imports
of
Russian
crab
meat
on
the
grounds
that
It
is
processed
by
"forced
convict
and
indentured
labor."
United
States
tariff
law
forbids
the
import
r.f
anything
produced
by
such
means.
itiated
into
the
Moose
Legion
at
In
n
.
.
.
-""-HI
(II
"J
D
t
ch
r
,
.
.
.
.
"
ii
conditions
is
expected
during
the
next
48
hours.
Forecast
North
Coast
Region
Clear
and
cold.
Winds
light.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
Tuesday
At
Port
Hardy
and
Prince
Rupert,
20
and
35;
Sandspit,
25
and
35.
Buffalo
Canadian
t
27
C.
M.
&
S
-
134.00
Conwest
2.35
Donalda
60
Eldona
-31
East
Sullivan
9.15
Giant
Yellowknife
......
7.40
-iumMa
their
night.
They
narv
f
meeting
Friday
total
,
LXXeeded
thj
were
Earl
Bar
and
Harold
Windows
were
broken
in
one
other
Parts
of.
Can-
H.
discussed
at
the
meeting.
part
of
this
city
and
burglar
alarms
set
off.
left.
Walker
was
iu
the
chair.