1 DISPATCHED PROVINCIAL fV.TT I provincial ki::-' vicror.B, s . c. Daily NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VDeliy irery t?a?ia' Mo,f Strctegie Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greet Northwe.t" HKINCE KUFERT , Rf , THURSDAY. , NnvKMHKH. 23 . IHFM r.icr. rivr. umvia Phone 81 in . n n nil mimj mm Missing Naas Vessel Safe Worst Railway Disaster In Years on Long Island Thanksgiving Holidaymakers Amid Victims . Of Tragic Crash Last Night NEW YORK (CP) The worst American rail- r way disaster in years, a rear - end collision between - - i !two Long Island passenger trains, jammed with tapt. William Stewart Had Been in Shelter from Storm-Had Engine Trouble Capt. William Stewart and two companions, who had been reported missing since Novem-oer 15 on a log gathering trip in nearby Portland Canal, were :afe back In their native village it the mouth of the Naas River, north of here, last evening. Word jf their safety reached the Indian Superintendent's office iere today with the explanation that the boat, Portland Breeze, had suffered engine trouble and it was necessary to take shelter about 12 miles from 'the village. Finally, they were able to get in under their own power. Search, which had been started by the Royal Canadian counted Police boat P.M.L. 15, -as thereupon called off. Na-tie vessels from Kincollth had already been searching. The Portland Breeze is expect Thanksgiving Eve commuters, killed 78( persons, the police estimated today. . ' Estimate of the dead came from Police Inspector i DEATH TRAP Rescuers watch as car in which four persons unowned is pulled from the Ottawa River at Bryson, Que. Mr. and Mrs. Hormisdas Asselm, and. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lance, all of Campbell's Bay, Que., drowned when their car plunged intd ed in Prince Rupert, as soon as . a current storm ameliorates,! LONDON f) Great Brit? In with Chief Councillor William has formally assured China that Barton and other members of United Nations forces in Korea the village council who 'are to have no aggressive intentions have a conference with Assist- towards China, the Foreign Of-ant Indian Superintendent W. B. fee announced today. Bailey. I A message to this effect by No hardship was evidently ' Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin suffered hv rant. Stewart nr hu was delivered to the Chinese Urge Parents Assert Rights WASHINGTON (CP) A sharp challenge to parents to reassert their primary rights in educating their children is made in a statement just issued by the Catholic Bishops of the United States. Their declaration, entitled The Child: Citizen of Two Worlds," carries a warning that parents have abdicated many of their duties and privileges to the school, the state and popular entertainment forms. "In recent decades striking ad vances have been made In meeting the child's physical,, emo tional and social needs, but his moral and religious needs have not been met with the same solicitude and understanding," sayo the statement. "As a result many of our children today betray confusion and Insecurity. The child must be seen whole companions. , Capt. Stewart Is well known as a competent sea-, man and navigator. The Port land Breeze was well found. She is radio-equipped but it Is thought her engine trouble rendered her incommunicoda, thus raising the alarm as to her safety. The Dolice Datrol boat under Capt. R. Good has been ordered and entire,", they emphasize, j in the of the pennsvl-"He must be seen as a citizen of vanas congressional Limited in iU return ui routine work, ine "Portland .Breeze" having been MirwirtttW oaf ex Dnl ina r a 4 r nun tacted the patrol boat this morning. Canadians; At Ft. Lewis FORT LEWIS (CP) First elements of the Korea-b o u n d Rpnnnri Battalion of Canada's r, . i - - - o . D.irMo'. r-anoHion More Train V recks I INr?o1?eIjaneiro At least ! five persons were killed and 50 injured today when a fast Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro express was wrecked near Morro Agudo, 30 miles from here. Four cars jumped the tracks due to spreading rails. IN SPAIN ... MADRID Corunna mail train was derailed today, injuring 22 persons, two seriously. Four coaches left the rails. Ocean Falls, Bella Coola Run Improved Uniqn Steamships Ltd. has ad vised E. T. Applewhaite, M.P., of speeding up of the weekly service between Vancouver, Ocean Falls and Bella Coola under a new schedule change. I The steamer Catala, sailing from Vancouver Saturday, will call at Ocean Falls before going on to Bella Coola and will again call at Ocean Falls on the way out of Bella Coola. The new arrangement will have advantage in allowing Ocean Falls people to travel back and forth H both; i j"v"2'rr;c Mvw Ocean Falls and Bella Coola as well, as encouraging business be tween the two points Including the .delivery of produce from Bellaf dqola valley to the paper town. 1 ; i , '. ' ; ; Tj Storms Sweep ''. ' British Isles LONDON Heavy gales and rains have been visiting . the British Isles. Some roads are under two feet of water. Street Sanding Is Major Job "We'll beat it," said City Engineer Stewart this morning as public works crews started sanding slippery streets all over the city. One garbage truck was taken off route to help the works foreman, George Geddes, who with another crew had a city truck out by 6 this morning. Police 'phoned to the city de partment at 5:30 this morning saying that there was a traffic Jam-up on Sixth Avenue East near Hays Cove Circle, where at 8 o'clock this morning one car was in the ditch on its side. "We have sand stored, but if this keeps up we'll be running short of sand," the city engineer said. Section Two Is the most hazardous. "Twenty-eight miles of roads to be worked on in the city," re marked Mr. Stewart. "If it freezes tonight, it will be worse." A taxi operator said only main thoroughfares were being serv iced. This morning the front end of one cab slid off the road east of town. Columbia Cellulose office and labor staff remained In town this morning. Their lorries are now operating again this afternoon. Watson Island stage did not make the usual run tq Ter race tnis morning. Arrow Bus Lines suspended their Port Edward run this morning but resumed this afternoon. Listed for Vancouver on the Prince George tonight are: Mr. Thureault, Mrs. S. Stewart, C. Carlsen, J. Good, George Faulkner, E. Johnston, N. Barett. Mr. and Mrs. Wye, J. V. Boys, Mr, McTaggart. E. J. Boyd, W. Wel-lens, P. Stephens, Mr. Rodgero B. J. Donnelly, Mr. Bodnar, J. Bodewill, JT. Kulchiskl, Mrs. E. C. Wallace, Mrs. Roy Thorlegson H. Hurrlson, Mrs.. G. Kek.ey. Light Infantry have reached Fort: and is substantially dominated Lewis, last staging post before and controlled by the govern-embarklng for the Far East. ment and the Communist party ran:is J. suinvan, Toronto lawyer and ir for the Ontorlo fr.irests Department, lean in ms uuawa last Saturday. (CP PHOTO J 41 1 K V J 4 1 ! I . T ! Marlon Gough 0, has been charged murder of her hus-wing !Mrs. the finding of body in a hotel room, i was not reported to nearly 12 hours. Mrs. 'as apprehended itiad left with her son pine in Toronto. i CP PHOTO) Gets No Tanks ft SHpment of six type British tanks f'vr" was postpone! following protests Labor and Conservii- I f's of parliament f h:"l protected that an Other Rrit.i-.h fiiffht he used by Fgvut ?"i)t to drive Britain's f f the Suez Canal ace :tle tic In Near, iy,soncrs "'ithdrawine 3 KY0 (CP) Peace f'd quiet on the fiatcd settlpmpnt. Jnese Communists American, prisoners. nei Communists, North,.... ' i ,, K-orea, con- mrsw without a 58 troops Knot i fnrtfr 0Ver aban , TTfwW had not ad Joseph A. Curry, commanding rescue work at the scene, tie said that 33 bodies had been removed with many more still buried in the wreckage. , More than 333 oassengers wer? injured as two trains came together with a roar in eastern New York City on Long Island. Twenty-two of the injured are in critical condition. The estimate of 78 killed would make lt the worst railway disaster in the United States since the 1943 disaster at Frankfort Junc tion, Philadelphia, killed 79. Police said the death toll might go even higher. , The trains crashed with .. a blinding flash, telescoping two smoking cars into a twisted mass of steel and mangled bodies. Seventy-five of the dead are (tentatively identified One body, that of a pretty dark-haired girl wearing a green sweater, lay unclaimed in a T.& ' tv, .,t f U York Bta4eg raUroad hi.. nrv anrt th ,WOTst in th nat!ol. ,. 1ft4, wh.n .,. npriKhnd iihlladelpnia.' - i '- - " Not untu 3.30 a.m. today- .nme hours after the tragic ctl- 'lislon were the last bodies removed from the wreckage. Most of the dead were wedged In the smashed smokine cars. Cause of the collision is put down to one frain stopoing on account of jammed brakes nd the Other plunging into it. A .searching investigation will be held. fulfill their duties in this matter, the bishops stated: "False mod- esty should not deter them from doing their duty." About the trend toward exten sion of state care for orphans and foster children, the bishops acknowledged that it is proper for government authorities to enforce legitimate minimum standards of care for the dependent child, but said that the responsibility for his care should not be entirely assumed by them. The bishops , reminded that Catholic parents are acting within their competence when they set up their own school system, because "it Is they, and not the state, who possess the primary right to educate." : 1 Johnston Co. Ltd.) Aumaque .28(, Beattie 56 Bevcourt .41 - Bobjo .15 Buffalo Canadian 31 Consol. Smelters 127.00 Conwest 2.02 Eldona 25 East Sullivan 7.80 Giant Yellowknife 6.45 God's Lake .42 Hardrock 21 Harricana 08 Heva .10 Hosco 06 Jacknife 05 '.4 Joliet Quebec 102 Lake Rowan .08 Lapaska . .04i Little Long Lac 53 Lynx .10 Madsen Red Lake 2.22 McKenzie Red Lake .... .45 McLeod Cockshutt 2.20 Moneta 46 Negus ' 83 Noranda 73.50 Louvicourt -IT Pickie Crow 163 San Antonio 2.50 Senator Rouya , .20 Sherrit Gordon 2.87 Steep Rock 6.75 Silver Miller 86 Upper Canada ... 1.7'i 60 feet of water, Two other (CP PHOTO) Climb Mountain In Plane Quest MORAN. Wyoming (CP) Rescue units headed yesterday for the heights of Mount Moran after reports had been received t" "re having been spotted high on the mountainside following 'the apparent crash and burning of a missionary plane. The mis sing plane was bound from Chi-co, California, to Billings, Montana. a Owned by the New Tribes Missions, a religious organization, it was on the first leg of a flight to South America. Would Be Assassins "Two Puerto Ricans , Arrested as Plotters , In Truman Killing I 'NEW YORK CPt Two Puerto Rican radical leaders, suspected of being chief plotters iniUie at tempt' to assassinate President Truman, were , arrested 'late Wednesday and held In separate jails here today under heavy guard. The men are Julio Pinto Gan- i dia, aged 42, veteran terrorist and president of the New York Puerto Rican Nationalist party, and Juan Bernardo Lebron, 28, past president of the New York unit. More arrests are believed to be in the offing. ' . Frederick H. Block, assistant United States attorney, said the federal grand jury has evidence of "possible existence of a plot to kill the President."' Attempt was made on the life of President Truman November 1 during a Washington gun battle. THE WEATHER Synopsis Gales of up to sixty miles an hour have been buffeting the northern coast during the night but are now slowly subsiding as the active storm causing them moves across the northern mainland. The storm moved across the southern section of the coast during the day and gales are expected to spread to all exposed southern coastal waters by this evening. Snow is beginning to fall in the central Interior as the storm moves Inland and will spread to most of the Cariboo and Prince George areas by afternoon. Forecast North coast region Intermittent rain this morning. Cloudy with showers this afternoon and tonight. A few showers Friday, Little change In temperature. Winds, southerly (35) this morn ing, decreasing ,to 25 Friday Lows tonight and highs Friday at Port Hardy, 36 and 42; Sand spit, 34 and 42; Prince Rupert, 3U and 38. Friday, November 24, 1950 I High 1:13 18 8 feet ' 12-S2 21 i fet "' low g.gj 35 jee 19 33 3 4 feet passengers escaped. . No Aggression From Britain Foreign Ministry at Pelping yes- terday. Russia Runs Commie Party Charge Made by United States Department of Justice WASHINGTON. D.C. W The Department of Justice today formally charged the Communist party in the United States with being run by the , government of Soviet Russia. ' I Since the party has refused to take advantage of1 the $ppcH-tunity to register voluntarily under the 1950 security law, it has .been freely said that It will tight the action before the security control board. Department of Justice omciais chnrtp that the party nas neen oi me ouvjo, t.uui,. AIR PASSENGERS From Sandsplt (Wednesday) D. Larsen, D. T. Kelly, J. Burgess, B. McKay From Vancouver (Wednesday) h. Ayling, W. C. MoKenzle, M. Wiggins, H. Buddin, MrsH. Bud din, R. Oerrard, J. Connolly, H. Southwell. To Vancouver (today) J. Bourne, Mrs. J. Anton, M. McCal-lum, M. May, A. Welsh, S. J. Watson. C. Harding, R. McBaln, M. Moorehouse J. Johnson, , T. Ml.ss V l ore a negotiations In progress at this level." In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson indicated that discussions with friendly foreign governments were taking place but said: "no agreement has been reached." Despite denials of an Immediate peace move, the Chinese Communists were withdrawing everywhere. There was no more explanation of the withdrawals than of the unprecedented .re- lease of twenty-seven prisoners, i Th. AmpTlMin nrlsoners were driven in trucks sixty miles southward from a prison camp fit Pyoktong near the Manchur-ian border. , They were hidden by night to avoid United Nations planes and were released about a mile from the United States First Cavalry Division lines. The prisoners said they had been well fed, well treated and cared for by two captured American ducoois. REDS WERE MASSING Yesterday Allied Intelligence 3odies Found . Train Crash Yields Dead EDMONTON The bodies of . three of four railwavmen miss- lng since Tuesday's train crash m the Rocky Mountains have oeen recovered, the Canadian National Railways announced today. The bodies are identified as those of Engineer J. J. Stinson and Fireman Adam Oleschuk, both of Jasper, and Fireman P. D. Prosinuk of Edmonton. Still missing is the body of Engineer Harvey Church of Jasper. The death toll still stands at 20, including 16. soldiers. The last statement on Injured, set the figure at 58. The. death .toll threatened to climb today as at least six of the injured fought for theirl lives in hospital here. "j Meanwhile Canadian National Railways, resumed formal traffic ;on itsimaia line after' wreck-1 age Was cleaned list highl.i' ! Ari; explosion i and ' fire irl ' tm Wreckage lyesterday J practically demolished.' what' 'remained of two locomotives and two broken coaches. . Chinese Appeal Is Sidetracked LAKE SUCCESS TO American and Middle Eastern votes today sent to the United Nations Little Assembly the Nationalist China appeal for United Nations inves tigation of Russias role in China. It had been charged that. the Russians aided the Chinese Communists and are a threat to peace in the Far East. Elections for Junior Citizens aldermen and mayor are being held today in Booth-Memorial School. Miss Iona Hardy has been elected junior citizens city clerk. The "Junior Citizens Day," which is being sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Com merce, will be December 12. w ar said that the Communists were massing troops and equipment on both sides of the border in the areas of Musan and Tumen. These are in the war northeast panhandle of the Korean peninsula. Should the Reds break out of this area they could cut off the United States Seventh Division' armored spearhead which this week planted the United Na tions flag on the south bank of the Yalu River at Hysnsanjin. The build-up of Communist Chinese and Korean forces in the Musan staging areas might be primarily to block the United Nations' march toward the Soviet-Siberian border, lt was thought. South Korean capital division units have pushed up tne easi . cohki, 1.0 emni. niu- ui 1,11 t nonfrnn. .ir miles irom ine . - sj - vlet border where the Reds are preparing to mak a stand. The units, first from a special' force committed to a foreign theatre of operations, left Waln-wriRht, Albert, Sunday. Four trains carried the unit of 1207 men. Lt. Col. J. R. Stone, commanding officer of the unit from Salmon Arm, arrived with other battalion officers on the first train The troops are expected to embark for the Far East shortly. Froser River Fishing Ends 7 a MffMTVFR All salmon net I fishing on the Fraser River will j rtw wurnis. -hr beio.ig U wona sureiy, dui nis nrsc ana highest'., allegiance is to God. From his earliest years he must be taught that he is destined for life with God in eternity.". The 180 members of the Cath olic hierarchy who' drew up the statement at the annual meeting at the Catholic University here took issue with advocates of ssx: instruction In schools and with those who want government agencies to take over the field of orphan care. PROTEST PUBLIC COURSES "We protest in the strongest possible terms against the Introduction of sex Instruction in the schools," the bishops declared. "To be of benefit such instruction must be far broader than the imparting of information, and must be given individually. Sex is more than a biological function. It Is bound up with tlv sacredness and uniquesness of the human personality. It can be fully and properly appreciated only within a religious and moral context. If treated otherwise, the child will see it apart from the controlling purpose of his life, which Is service to God." Urging fathers and mothers to it if JAY n (Courtesy 8. D. Vancouver Bayonne .01 3 Bralorne .". 6.00 B. R. Con .02 B. R. X 04 Cariboo Quartz 1.00 Medley Mascot 48 Pacific Eastern 05 Pend Oreille 8.20 Pioneer 1.85 Privateer 07 'i Peeves McDonald 3.95 Reno 02 Sheep Creek 1.39 Silbak Premier 31 Taku River 08 Vananda 11 Salmon Gold .02Vi Silver Standard 2.18 Western Uranium 1.10 Oils- Anglo Canadian 4.80 A. P. Con 36 Atlantic 2.40 Calmont .87 Central Leduc 2.50 Home OH 14.50 Mercury 12 Okalta 2.00 Pacific Pete 7.30 Princess 162 Royal Canadian 10 Royalite '. 13.50 Toronto Attiima 0Vi close at eight a.m. tomorrow Hooga. -morning, the Department of I To Sandspit (today) Fisheries announced today. Falrbalrn. In Move Conditions Meantime Released Communists U.N. Holds Positions moves appeared suddenly Korean battlefronts. Talk of wpre touched off bv: suddenly . releasing 27 with an estimated 100,000 vanced, a spokesman at General MacArthur's headquarters said. He would not say what the reason weuj. Col. M. P. Echols, head-ouarters information officer, dented reports there Is any peace