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Rupert
Li
Understood
and
Ust
Unappreciated
Port
Chief
of
Railway
Development
Points
to
Advantages
as
Gateway
to
Alaska
TORONTO.
"The
northern
Pacific
coast
o
Canada,
with
its
great
harbor
and
port
at
the
gateway
to
southeastern
Alaska
js,
perhaps,
with
the
exception
of
the
Arctic
regions,
the
least
understood
and
most
incompletely
appreciated
area
of
the
continent,"
M.
W.
Maxwell,
chief
of
development,
Cana
lh
and
dian
National
Railways,
told
the
truction
Casualty
List-
;
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rj
Missing,
i
:r
injured
.N.
Line
Would
Probe
Red
Actions
Hot
Words
Over
Russia's
Participation
in
Chinese
Civil
War
Failure
to
Deliver
Order
Was
Cause
of
Train
Wreck
VANCOUVER
(CP)
-Failure
to
deliver
an
order
caused
the
head-on
collision
of
a
Canadian
National
Railways
passenger
train
and
a
troop
tram
near
Canoe
River
yesterday.
An
official
statement
issued
here
today
by
J.
R.
McMillan,
Canadian
National
"ice-president
of
the
.
Brlt;sn
Coiumbla
Division,
said:
Cross
for
use
in
treating
injured
i
"It
has
teen
established
that
at
the
Royal
Inland
Hospital
at,
the
accident
wa
the
-result
of
Jer
on
Mountain
l-Trooper
EDMONTON
(CP)
Following
is
the
list
of
casualties
among
railway
crew
members
involved
in
the
train
wreck
at
Juris
Orders?
LAKE
SUCCESS
B
John
Foster
Dulles
of
the
United
States
agreed
yesterday
with'
Nationalist
China's
T.
F.
Tsiang
that
London,
Ont.,
branch
of
the
Engineering
Institute
of
Canada
last
evening.
Mr.
Maxwell
spoke
on
the
subject
"The
North
Pacific
Region
of
the
North
American
Continent."
"This
vast
territory
has
potentialities
of
national
and
continental
significance,''
Mr.
Maxwell
continued,
"which
have
been
obscured
partly
by
lack
of
popular
understanding.
Late
developments
In
Industry,
in
world
affairs
and
in
international
relations
point
to
the
increasing
advantages
that
have
come
from
the
establishment
of
Prince
Rupert
as
a
Pacific
rail
terminus
and
ocean
port
the
only
deep
water,
year-round
Pacific
port
reached
by
continental
rail
on
the
continent
north
of
Vancouver."
The
speaker
pointed
out
that
under
peacetime
no
less
than
there
should
be
an
investigation
failure
to
deliver
to
the
passen
Kamloops
If
necessary.
l
L
ger
extra
troop
rain
instructions
Temperature
was
about
death
toll
I
of
the
collision
of
rain
and
passenger
SJTON'-The
inoe
River
rose
to
n
two
of
the
injur-died
on
their
way
i
here.
Twenty-two
t
injured
are
in
ser-Ition
and
a
doctor
with
an
overnleht
low
of
five
I
t0
mee'
Trail,
i-.o.
2
at
Cedarside
below.
This
made
rescue
work
phere
It
was
intention
trains
difficult.
Lleht
snow
was
falllne
should
meet.
The
instructions
of
Soviet
Russia's
activities
in
Communist
China,
particularly
in
regard
to
the
civil
war.
This
was
something
to
which
the
western
world,
in
its
own
interests,
could
not
be
Indifferent,
Dulles
declared.
A
British
delegate
doubted
the
wisdom
of
such
an
investigation
and
doubted
it
any
useful
pur
had
been
delivered
to
Train
No.
2
as
troops
pitched
In
to
help
the
LITTLE
GIRL,
BIG
JUMPER
Vicky,
7,
may
be
diminutive
but
that
didn't
stop
her
from
capturing
the
hearts
of
the
crowd
attending
the
Royal
Winter
Fair
horse
show
Tuesday
afternoon
when
she
won
the
Junior
Jumping
Stake.
She
is
the
daughter
of
Col.
Umberto
Mariles,
captain
of
the
Mexican
Jumping
team,
shown
holding
the
President
of
Mexico
trophy
Vicky
will
present
t(j
one
of
the
international
teams
at
the
conclusion
of
the
horse
show.
(CP
PHOTO)
Neath
toll
might
be
i
"Further
investigation
Is
continuing
but
lull
details
establishing
the
responsibility
must
await
official
inquiry."
Cedarside
Is
approximately
five
miles
east
of
when.
,he
collision
Canoo
River
yesterday:
MISSING
.I
Harvey
Cnurch,
Jasper,
en-
:
gineer.
P.
D.
Prosinuk,
Edmonton,
fireman.
J.
J.
Stimson,
Jasper,
engineer.
,
Adam
Olesckuk,
Jasper,
fireman.
INJURED
W.
Walsh,
Winnipeg,
porter.
W.
W.
Worrall,
Winnipeg,
porter.
P.
Godein,
Winnipeg,
pantryman.
C.
Clozeau,
Winnipeg,
news
agent
Patrick
J.
McEvoy,
Edmonton,
brakeman.
"
JL
A.
Campbell,
Vancouver,
baggageman.
NTON
(CP)
pose
could
be
served
thereby
in
wartime
conditions
the
route
(Continued
on
page
5)
!
persons
14
sol-
occurred.
Canadian
National
employees
dig
out
the
bodies,
extricate
survivors
and
help
to
clear
the
track.
i
The
troop
train
was
the
last
of
20
which
had
gone
through
during
the
past
fnw
days
to
the
coast.
Jasper
hospital,
although
put
in
readiness,
was
net
able
to
handle
all
the
injured
so
most
were
sent
on
to
Edmonton.
Some
EARLIER
STATEMENT
a
situation
in
the
Far
East
which
was
already
tense
and
fraught
with
danger
Tsiang
told
the
United
Nations
that
45,000
Russian
agents
com
four
railroad-believed
dead
An
official
of
the
Canadian
Regrets
oi
National
Railways
at
Jasper
said
last
night
that
the
ommisslon
are
injured
101-
ACL
OUT
TONIGHT
Pfince
Rupert
To
Have
Skating
Rink
By
.Week-end
at
Gyro
Park
Mr.
Claxton
pletely
dominated
political,
economic
and
cultural
Ule
of
Communist
China.
He
said
that
the
of
three
words
from
a
train
ordet
he
head-on
colli-
was
responsible
for
the
collision
Chinese
civil
war
had
been
en
n
yesterday
between
'were
placed
temporarily
in
the
The
official
said
that
the
school
auditorium
at
Jasper
be
gineered
by
Russia-
and
declared
ing
troop
train
and
-.'.inental
"
passenger
word
.
"a.t
.
Canoe
Elver"
were
dropped
from
the
message
given
VANCOUVER
Hon.
Brookt
Claxton,
minister
of
national
defence,
expressed
sorrow
Inst
night
over
yesterday's
train
wreck
in
which
14
soldiers
were
that
the
PeipinK
reaime
was
tne
stooge
and
tool
of
Moscow.
He
told
the
General
Assembly's
pol
Cold
weather
continuing
and
co-operation
at
a
volunteer
working
bee
called
for
tonight
materializ
the
conductor
of
the
troop
train.
The
full
order
should
have
called
for
the
troop
train
to
wait
itical
committee
that
Russian
fore
being:"
transferred
to
Edmonton
University
Hospital.
There
were
42
stretcher
cases.
Brigadier
Rockingham,
commander
of
Canada's
special
brigade,
dispatched
Capt.
J.
O.
West
and
Major
R.
M.
Hether-
at
Canoe
River.
A
few
minutes
Rocky
Mountain
hlll-I
312
miles
west
of
land
83
miles
west
of
if
the
injured,
some
isly
hurt.
The
injured
1
hospitalized
at
Ed-lere
they
arrived
to-
imperialism
was
resoonsible
for
killed.
Their
dependents
would
the
most
of
Asia's
unrest.
receive
the
same
benefits
as
after
the
train
passed
Canoe
River
the
collision
occurred.
ing,
Prince
Rupert
should
have
an
outdoor
skating
rink
in
operation
withiri
the
next
day
or
so.
,
;
Local
clubs
and
business,
men,
over
matutinal
Jacob
Malik,
chief
Russian
i
",uu5"
""c
"u
front
line.
delegate,
asserted
that
Tsiang'sj
Mr.
Claxton
was
here
after
in
fabrica-
charges
were
lies
and
coffee'eups,
conceived.
the
idea!
of
speedy
adaptation
tions.
12
soldiers
have
been
of
Gyro
Ball
Park
at
Sixth
Ave
I
Two
others
and
the
ots
of
the
engine
Canadian
Arms
ington,
R.C.A.M.C.,
to
the
scene
of
the
disaster.
NONE
FROM
B.C.
Names
of
the
dead
soldiers
were
released
last
night.
None
were
from
British
Columbia.
Five
were
from
Newfoundland
and
others
were
from
Nova
Scotia,
Ontario,
Saskatchewan
and
Alberta.
The
area
surrounding
the
still
missing.
specting
the
Royal
Canadian
Engineers
training
depot
at
Chilli-wack
and
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
base
at
Abbotsford.
The
minister
goes
from
1;
-e
to
Fort
Lewis,
Washington,
Canada's
special
brigade
Is
t
J
concentrated
for
di"?tc"
ti
Korea.
-
,
k
occurred
near
No
Evening
v
Slore
Hours
There
will
be
no
change
in
the
closing
hours
of
local
retail
stores,
Prince
Rupert
Retail
Merchants'
Association
decided
last
evening.
The
Association
had
a
meeting
to
consider
a
proposal
to
provide
.
evening
hours
for
.certain
categories.
After
considerable
discussion,
decision
was
made
by
majority
vote
to
make
no
change.
h
after
a
collision
on
Ian
National
Railways
Spany
officials
in
Ed-Jported.
No
fire
follow
-(pact,
officials
said.
lar
trooper
had
left
Way
night
bound
for
Boat
Missing
Search
Is
Under
Way
Portland
Breeze
of
Kincolith
Unreported
For
Week
Three
or
more
men
In
the
"Portland
Breeze,
a
45-foot
Kincolith
fishing
boat,
are
reported
missing
in
Portland
Canal
area.
The
boat,
under
Captain
William
Stewart,
25
years
old,
left
Kincolith
November
15
for
a
winter
supply
of
logs
in
the
Portland
Canal.
Search
parties
from
the
village
have
been
turned
back
by
strong
storms,
assistant
Indian
Superintendent
W.
B.
Bailey
reports.
The
police
patrol
boat,
the
PML-15,
left
last
night
to
join
the
search,
the
Indian
agent
said.
Two
other
Kincolith
fishing
boats,
working
in
Prince
Rupert
district,
left
to
look
for
the
missing
men.
Solomon
Doolan
is
scene
of
the
collision
has
but
little
settlement
and
such
roads
as
there
are
in
the
immediate
territory
at
this
season
are
hard
to
travel
over,
if
not
blocked
by
New
He:
!
Labor
Boirii
Taken
Ofi
Reds
OTTAWA
(CP)
A
report
from
Tokyo
says
that
Canadian
weapons
have
been
seizezd
from
Chinese
Communist
troops
in
Korea.
The
United
States
officers
did
not
know
how
the
Reds
:
had
come
by
the
weapons.
A
spokesman
here,
however,
recalled
that
Canada
had
sent
Nationalist
China
machine
guns
and
other
arms
under
mutual
aid
which
lapsed
in
1948.
He
said
It
was
likely
that
Chinese
Com
nue
and
McBrlde
Street
to
this
winter
purpose..
.
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j
Co-operation
came
speedily
from
the
city
after
a
call
.
on
Mayor
George
Rudderham
and
necessary
lumber
to
build
up
the
sides
of
a
100
by
200-foot
space
was
to
be
delivered
to
the
site
today.
Next
the
appeal
-was
issued
to
volunteer
workers
to
turn
out
tonight
and
do
the
necessary
carpentry.
"We
know
there
will
be
plenty
of
people
present
out
when
the
rink
is
ready,"
said
one
of
the
prime
movers
this
morning.
"We
hope
they'll
come
out
tonight
when
there's
work
to
be
done.
The
more
hands
the
merrier."
Immediately
the
structural
work
is
carried
out,
the
ground
will
be
flooded
by
the
fire
de
p.
Washington,
with
iof
the
Second
Regl-jal
Canadian
Horse
I
of
Canada's
special
winter
conditions.
MIGHT
HAVE
BEEN
WORSE
Difference
of
half
a
mile
saved
the
death
toll
in
the
mountain
""Anient
i
H
C-
W'H
for
Korea.
They
N
out
from
Shilo
Initoba.
VICTORIA
V
made
of
the
t
D'Arcy
Bald
n'(
chairman
of
I
j
bla
Labor
t
'
"
j
ceeding
3:
who
died
i
Lis
i
train
crash
from
reaching
into
the
hundreds,
men
of
Canada's
special
force
said
here
today.
Their
westbound
troop
train
pr
Continental
Limit
-
3
f
g
ior
Montreal,
was
Principal
argument
against
the
idea
was
based
on
consideration
of
the
staffs
who
would
have
to
be
called
back
to
work
extra
hours.
J.
D.
McRae,
president
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Retail
Merchants'
Association,
was
in
the
chair.
f
Edmonton
from
Van
munists
had
captured
some
of
this
material.
-it-
had
crossed
a
bridge
straddling
a
500-foot
canyon
and
travelled
another
half
mile
before
it
rammed
head-on
into
the
transcontinental
passenger
train
on
the
curve.
"If
wo
had
met
on
that
bridge
21
DIE
IN
CRASH
MORAN,
WYOMING
A
mission
plane,
with
2
Ion
board,
eight
of
them
fchildren,
apparently
crashed
and
burned
last
night
in
swirling
clouds
on
Mount
Moran.
The
plane
was
on
the
way
to
California.
All
aboard
are
feared
to
have
perished.
U.N.
ADVANCING
SEOUL
United
Nations
forces
made
a
cautious
advance
along
the
west
of
the
North
Korean
fronts
today
while
American
Superforts
pounded
Communist
bases
and
troop
concentrations
in
the
northeast.
South
Korean
capital
division
units
have
pushed
up
the
east
coast
to
eight
miles
s-outh
of
Chogjih.
FLYING
SAUCER
PASCO,
Wash.
Pasco
people
speculated
last
night
on
a
glistening
cigar-shaped
object
which
they
saw
hover
last
evening
In
the
sky
near
the
atomic
plant
here.
Two
newspapermen
were
among
those
who
saw
it.
TODAY'S
SfGCZS
:
Ki)i:ns
.
I
said
the
trains
were
P
to
pass
at
the
siding
iR'wr,
a
whistle
stop
in
I
and
sparsely
inhabit-f
British
Columbia.
The
111.
It
Is
hpHovoH
foiled
partment
and,
the
way
the
Weather
man
is
acting,
it
should
be
no
time
before
the
ice.
Is
ready.
Various
offers
Of
assistance
Mrs
Ernest
Fisher,
wit
hi
captain
of
one
of
the
two
fish
TVmna-Mav
Linda-May.
and
packers
Joining
the
search
been
asked
to
Aircraft
have
t
(Ciiurtcsj
8.
V.
Johnston
'l,
have
already
been
maoe
keep
a
look-out.
our
whole
train
would
have
plung-od
into
the
canyon
and
not
very
many
of
us
would
have
sur-uivnri
"
said
Lieut.
Paul
Cullen
Norman,
returned
on
tms
morning's
boat
from
a
holiday
at
Steveston.
Mrs.
Fisher
visited
with
her
son-in-law
and
daughter,
Mr.,
and
Mrs.
George
Engle.
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covered
the
entire
province
of,
British
Columbia
this
morning.
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stop
and
kept
go-Polllslon
took
place
as
f
were
rounding
a
long
as
not
snowing
as
at
(fted.
Nines
were
practically
P
and
two
coaches
KUcally
destroyed.
The
I
toe
two
two-man
en-ps
are
believed
to
have
u"der
the
mass
of
9r
the
engineers
and
F'Sht
have
Jumped.
P
said
at
least
the
din-f13
three
sleepers
of
the
fl!1
were
of
steel.
One
Hedley
MasCot
M.V
peratures
dropped
to
36
below
at-Prince
George
to
establish
a
new
Pacific
Eastern
record
for
November
cold.
Cloud
cover
hi
the
southern
interior
of
Montreal.
Cullen
was
sitting
in
the
rear
of
the
third
passenger
coach
from
the
front
of
the
troop
train.
The
coach
ahead
telescoped
and
landed
on
top
of
the
front
section
of
the
third
coach.
"The
trooper's
engine
shot
into
the
air
and
landed
on
top
of
the
second
coach,
crushing
it
to
the
rails.
Almost
all
the
dead
and
Injured
were
in
the
second
and
third
coaches.
"Most
of
them
never
knew
what
.hit
them,"
said
Cullen.
the
mountainside,
some
lodging
high
up
in
the
trees.
The
troops
were
In
an
angry
mood
when
they
arrived
here
aboard
the
hospital
train
from
the
wreck.
"We
can't
tolerate
any
interference
with
this
unloading,"
one
officer
said.
"There
are
some
guys
in
there
who
may
not
mak
it
alive
to
hospital."
The
hospital
train,
consisting
nf
some
of
the
coaches
from
the
8.13
t:
.a
-.'Vi,
c
kept
temperatures
in
the
thirties.
There
is
still
considerable
cloud
.r
.euii:-
Cmdr.
Beard,
MLA
Dies
In
Victoria
VICTORIA
(CP)
Cmdr.
Charles
T.
Beard,
59-year-old
Member
of
the
British
Columbia
Legislature
for
Esquimalt,
died
in
hospital
here
last
night
after
a
long
Illness.
'
1
Born
in
Ottawa,
Cmdr.
Beard
died
in
a
Victoria
veterans'
hospital
after
having
been
seriously
111
for
some
time.
Cmdr.
Beard
was
serving
his
second
term
in
office
as
a
Coalition
member.
Hewas
skipper
of
the
auxiliary
cruiser
Prince
Robert
during
the
Second
World
War.
Qiant
Y
iness
over
the
southern
regions
RIC
R
Ood's
I
of
the
province
'
put
gradual
Pend
Oreille
Pioneer
Premier
Bortfer
Privateer
Reever
t!,l-.i
Reno
.
..
p-.ec
p
Cretk
f-Ibak
Trmier
T&iu
r'
r
.
,
.
'
Vananc'.
.
e
:
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c,-:
.
Hardr
d
icar
and
three
sleepers
Med
Th
i
Record
Cold
In
November
wrecked
trooper,
was
coated
with
i
JUOR
.30
.06
.9Vi
.0?
-
'rs
ripped
rinwn
mm.
Ice.
Some
of
the
windows
were
Our
coaches,
all
of
wooden
con
!fl
lines
nlrmn
V.a
-lo-hf.
struction.
just
disintegrated.
The
broken
clearing
is
expected
to
follow
during
the
day.
It
will
he
much
colder
tonight.
Forecast
North
coast
region
Clear
alort
j
the
mainland
andloudy
over
the
Queen
Char1"
s
and
nor:
thern
Vancouver
,nd,
.tecom
lng
cloudy
ovf-"
-
tr.:'.e
t'ti
tonight.
Intef
ent
snow
on
The
wounded
were
taken
out
2."
f
""
r
.dard
r-
ciings
to
a
wooded
wreckage
was
piled
a
good
miy
of
time-saving
and
a
Cranium
.
Z
L'
"
injured
suffered
3urn
j
oim
ft
are
re-
uua
VUUUIMUII
dPfTfAA
k.
m
through
the
windows
and
rushed
to
hospital
In
all
available
city
ambulances
which
were
waiting
at
the
station.
Mrs.
J.
C.
Richardson,
R.N.,
a
Vancouver
nurse,
who
was
on
the
passenger
train,
did
noble
service
in
assisting
to
minister
to
the
injured.
Tt.
was
two
hours
after
the
Cmdr.
Beard
was
well
known
in
Prince
Rupert
through
visits
here
during
his
naval
career,
particularly
before
World
War
Two.
others
sustained
Serious
MGnaiiiM
Thursday.
NcJL.
v.rsi:
Winds
light.
highs
Thursd(
't
32
and
38;
Sf
Prince
Rupei.
...
.
The
Daily
News
checked
back
on
its
weather
reports
today
and
could
not
find
a
lower
November
cold
temperature
mark
than
that
which
was
recorded
here
during
last
night.
Early
this
morning
the
official
thermometer
at
Digby
Island
dronped
to
17.6
above
Back
!n
1940
one
chilly
November
day
23.5
above
was
recorded
in
Prince
Rupert.
,
The
official
Weather
Man
had
little
comfort
to
offer.
"There
is
no
sign
of
a
break,"
he
said.
And
steely,
clear
blue
skies
confirmed
his
words.
C
,uving
advantages
Anulo
Canadian...
AtlanH
C?.n
.-tnt
Stor-A-Door
.
Meat
Drawer
...
-
r
..y
aroroge
Bin
Butter
Conditioner
Sliding
Shelves
Frozen
Food
Compartment
Fruit
and
Vegetable
Drawers
'
9K2
cubic
feet
429,00,
Now
NORTHERN
B.C.
POWER
CO.
iln-
Passengers
on
the
feet
high.
It
wasn't
recogmzaDie
as
anything
but
a
jumble
of
twisted
steel
and
splintered
wood."
SCENES
OF
HORROR
"There
were
twenty-six
of
us
in
that
coach
and
only
five
of
us
came
out
of
it,"
he
said.
The
rest
were
either
killed
or
injured.
We
could
see
some
of
our
boys
buried
underneath
it
but
we
couldn't
get
at
them."
One
soldier
was
cut
in
two.
Only
the
hand
of
another
was
found.
The
leg
of
one
of
the
engine
crew
members
was
found
outside
the
wreckage.
Debris
was
scattered
Hll
ove.-
wain
rstanpH
wiiii
up.
wreck
before
relief
trains
started
I
FORT
WORTH,
Texas
(CP)
arriving.
)
A
B-36
bomber
crashed
today
trains
were
HisnntchPrt
'er
snH
v
LOdl
K
Thursday,.
High
A....
t
ar
.f
rr
!
if
A
I
3
6
,
.
i
Cnt;nursesand
LPlane
was
dispatched
Passengers
said
that
the
first
)
about
ten
mues
norm
or
we-reactlon
of
the
soldiers,,
even
burne
.
in
north
central
Texus.
many
of
the
injured,
was
to
hi-)
There
are
unconfirmed
reports
quire
as
to
the
welfare
of
women
j
that
ten
men
balled
out.
Ordin-and
children
on
the
passenger
arily
a
B-36
carries
a
crew
of
train.
.
.
J
fifteen.
LOW
A
.
STEWART,
B.C.
PRINCE
RUPERT
i-uver
to
Kamloops
I
Hni.iina
trnin
(1,.
PHONE
210