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Canada's
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Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
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the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XLII,
No.
302
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER
30,
1953
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VANCOUVER.
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persons
aboard
?,
crippled
RCAF
North
Star
transport
miracularly
escaped
death
or
serious
injury
today
when
the
four-engined
plane
crash-landed
at
Vancouver
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Is
not.
the
only
use
to
which
m
in
can
devote
the
atom.
Pictured
Is
a
scale
:p;
uf
the
world
s
first
atomic
power
station,
n
iw
under
construction
In
Cumberland,
England,
jtmut
18
months'
time
the
British
expect
the
completed
plant
to
have
an
output
of
enough
wity
for
a
fair-sized
town.
Top
left
Is
the
low
turbine
house,
flanked
on
either
side
by
reactors
whore
heat
will
be
generated
In
moderated
urnanium
piles
to
make
steam.
The
iiri
will
drive
four
turbo-alternator
sets
In
t
ie
turbine
house.
-
i
The
plane
was
bound
for
Edmonton
from
Vancouver
wrier
It
was
forced
to
tarn
back
after
45
minutes
flying
time
beca'is,-of
engine
trouble.
Aboard
were
43
passengers;
Including
two
women
and
two
children,
and
a
crew
of
elfjht.1
The
piano,
riding
on
thw
engines,
flipped
over
on
th?
runway
and
skidded
off
into
t
field
alongside.
A
wing
was
torn
off
and
fire
broke
out
but
was
ciulckly
extinguished
by
airport
firefighters.
An
RCAF
official
said
most
of
the
passengers
suffered
minor
cuts
and
bruises
and
were
shaken
up
but
none
was
seriously
hurt.
Wreckage
was
scattered
ovi.-r
ire
Missing
After
Oil
Tankers
tash
in
Fog-Cloacked
Delaware
S
''"'By
The
Associated
Press
'
-"4
HANOI,
Indo-China.
Vietminh
rebels
tightened
their
pressure
today
on
Dien
Bien
Phu,
the
last
"French
fortress
in
northwest
Indo-China.
French
sources
speculated
that
it
is
the
major
objective
in
the
current
Communist
winter
campaign,
perhaps
in
preparation
for
another
push
into
the
invaded
kingdom
bf
Laos.
'
The
Red-led
1
Invaders'
who
knifed
across
southern
Laos
to
Thakhek
on
the
Thailand
border
last
week,
cutting
the
peninsula
in
two,
have
made
no
apparent
move
in
four
days.
But
at
Dien
Bien
Phu,
300
air-
3IINGTON.
Del.
m
An
recovered
and
five
men
have
headquarters
In
Philadelphia
an-ic
Refining
Company
been
listed
as
missing.
i
nounced.
6
wide
area.
Flames
burst
from
one
of
the
engines
In
the
torn-
THIS
TINY
NEW
YORKER
gets
a
close
look
at
one
of
the
granite
lions
in
front
of
the
New
York
Public
Library,
after
the
annual
Christm
is
wreaths
were
placed
on
the
majestic
statues.
Since
1950
the
big
cats
have
been
decorated
so
t.iat
they
may
extend
Yuletide
greetings
to
passersby
in
style.
-
seeking
safe
anchorage
in
i
Eleven
of
the
41
aboard
the
!
Company
officials
said
all
46
!
off
wing,
but
there
was
no
fire
in
the
main
fuselage
tg-cloaked
Delaware
river
10.600-ton
Atlantic
Dealer
wcre;r?rew
members
of
the
19,000-ton
d
into
a
sister
ship
early
thrown
into
the
river
or
Jumped
("super-tanker'''
Atlantic
Engin-sHting
off
fires
on
both
to
escape
the
flames.'
Hours
later
j
eer
are
safe.
;
'
-
"We
landed
down
on
one
side,
and
the
next
thing
I
knew
a
wing
crumpled
and
the
wall
of
the
fuselage
shot
in
towards
Four
bodies
have
been
two
had
been
rescued,'
Atlantic
Fires
aboard
"both
ships
were
controlled
quickly
by
the
crews.
Preliminary
reports
indicated
no
me,"
said
ordinary
seaman
Gary
serious
damage
to
either
vessel
Mclvor,
one
of
four
sailors
go-and
said
no
one
was
burned.
I
Ing
on
leave
from
Victoria.
by
Six
Points
"
Dukes;
v
$2
C:::ion
tty
Jro-Metallurgical
Scheme
footed
in
North
B.C.
VICTORIA
(CP)
Work
may
erican
interests
are
contemplat-:
port,
would
probably
be
valued
start
next
year
on
a
proposed
ing
construction
of
a
pulp
mill
;
at
$15,000,000.
$25,000,000
hydro-electric
project
in
the
north-central
section
of
He
declined
to
give
the
exat
in
northern
British
Columbia,
British
Columbia.
location
ef
the
:
mill
nor
the
native
E.
G.
Rowebottom,
deputy
min-1
The
deputy
said
the
mill,
which
'of
the
company
interested
in
its
ister
of
trade
and
industry
for
.
would
manufacture
pulp
for
ex-
I
construction.
Both
shin
were
hnunri
for
"I
saw
a
gaping
hole,
SO
I
Philadelphia
from
Texas,
the;
dived
through
it
and
ran
fo
Atlantic
Engineer
with
218,000,
mv
life-
We
thought
it
was
go
i
line
miles
to
the
northwest,
1
Wwps
-of
the
Vietminh
"iron
barrels
of
crude
oil
and
the
'"
to
u'"w
Y
Another
sailor
was
found
cov
;
division"
today
drew
within
!
four
miles
of
the
fortressed
1
plain
bristling
with
French
j
Union
troops
and
U.S.-3upplled
Atlantic
Dealer
with
9,000
barrels
of
gasoline
and
114,000
barrels
of
other
refined
products.
SOIGIIT
ANCHORAGE
ts.u.,
said
ruesaay.
ered
with
mud
from
head
to
toe
but
otherwise
unharmed.
He
couid
remember
nothinS
!,bout
the
crash
except
that
he
We
'II
Really
Drive
"-
Bo-Me-Hi
:
A
wm
by
six
points,"
is
the
prediction
of
Duke
of
Con-isht
coach
Bob
Hlndmarsh
for
the
third
meeting
of
the
New
otminster
high
school
team
with
Bo-Me-Hl
cagers
at
the
if
Centre
tonight.
"We've
got
a
real
offensive
game
nnpd."
said
Hlndmarsh,
"and
we're
going
to
win.?
.
Undaunted
by
this
confidence.
Jack
Evans,
pilot
of,
the
th
Memorial
Rainmakers
has
changed
his
taotics
accord-y
"I
was
planning
on
using
my
second
string,"
he-
said
afternoon,
"but
in
view
of
the
Dukes'
strategy
we'll
use
first-liners
and
really
drive."
In
the
first
two
previous
encounters
Monday
and
Tuesday,
Me-HI
downed
the
Dukes
52-48
and
61-48.
See
story
of
last
M
s
game
on
Page
4.1
Secret
German
Invention
Electrocutes
Ocean
Fish
A
company
spokesman
gave
j
was
running
furiously
from
the
this
version
of
what
happened:
wreckage.
The
Atlantic
Engineer
had
an-1
Weather
was
bad,
with
rain
chored
because
of
the
fog
about
pouring
down
and
visibility
at
i
miles
south
of
Wilmington1
minimum
at
the
time
of
the
and
25
miles
south
of
Philadel-
I
crash.
HAM3UKG
(Reuters)
A
se-
Peglow,
and
the
German
eh
arms.
;
PATROLS
CLASH
,
A
French
army
spokesman
said
strong
French
Union
patrols
clashed
twice
with
Vietminh
troops
northwest
and
southwest
of
Dien
Bien.
Phu.
There
was
a
strong
Indication
that
the
Vietminh
might
be
trying
to
move
striking
forces
Into
encircling
positions
before
launching
an
attack.
The
rebels
were
reported
within
four
to
six
miles
of
the
j
phla.
The
Atlantic
Dealer
was
!
cret
German
invention
for
the
trical
firm
of
Siesmen-Schliek-
mass
electrocution
of
salt
water
j
ert.
fish
will
undergo
extensive
tests'
In
Britain,
the
Weekly
Fish
I
proceeding
slowly
upstream,
j
hunting
for
anchorage
space.
I
Several
other
ships
were
at
an
The
hydro
development
would
be
the
first
step
in
a
$2,000,000,-000
metallurgical
-
chemical
development
planned
in
northern
B.C.
and
the
Yukon
by
.Vqntures
Ltd.,
parent
body
of
the
world-'
wide
Froblsher
organization.
,
Mr.
Rowebottom
said
Ventures
Ltd.
still
had
to
complete
water
rights
agreements
with
the
provincial
and
federal
governments
before
completing
plans
for
the
project.
Talks
between
the
company,
which
has
completed
a
survey
of
the
area,
and
B.C.
officials
are
expected
to4
get
underway
in
January.
The
hydro-electric
project
would
be
used
to
supply
power
for
a
metallurgical
plant
planned
at
Tulsequa,
near
the
head
of
soon
in
the
United
States
Long
Bank
Holiday
There
will
be
no
late
banking
hours
In
Prince
Rupert
this
week.
The
usual
Friday
late
hours
will
be
skipped
due
to
the
New
Year's
holiday.
Banks
will
close
at
3
p.m.
tomorrow,
not
to
open
ing
News
.-aid
the
German
invention
calls
for
the
use
of
live
electrlcpl
poles
fitted
to
the
the
lines
of
a
trawler's
gesr.
The-poles
would
send
out
"impulse
electricity"
which
stuns
the
fwh
and
sends
them
tumbling
help-
dice
Hold
Man
After
Fire
board
CNR
Westbound
Train
fortress,
which
was
taken
bv
the
French
last
Nov.
20
and
steadily
reinforced
by
airlift
Dr.
Paul
Frederich
"Meyer-Waarden,
head
of
the
federal
fish
research
institute
here,
said
Tuesday
night
a
converted
German
minesweeper,
the
R-96,
has
left
for
two
years
of
tests
in
American
waters
under
the
auspices
of
unidentified
U.S.
interests.
He
said
the
"revolutionary
development"
will
permit
huge
catches
of
ocean
fish
suitable
again
until
Monday
morning.
lessly
into
the
nets.
chor
in
the
area.
Residents
along
the
shore
of
the
two-mile-wide
river
were
awakened
about
5:30
a.m.
by
the
screech
of
warning
whistles.
They
heard
the
thump
of
a
collision,
then
a
roar
as
both
ships
caught
fire.
The
flash
of
flames
was
seen
two
miles
from
the
river.
Emergency
units
and
ambulances
throughout
the
area
went
into
action
Immediately.
Ship
since
then.
The
French
have
been
expect
Ht
-art
(iAIlVGHUt
i
for
northern
Ontario.
The
madiiiii
Pr
correspondent
!
transcontinental
starting
point
MHRi
)KIi,
Ont.
(CP)
-The
is
Montreal.
ing
an
attack
there
by
troops
of
Vietminh
division
Nn
31fi
Man
Improves
Alfred
Cloutier,
Butedale
fish
the
"Iron
Division
"
snuinneri
I
Taku
Inlet.
Mr.
Rowebottom
also
said
Am-
ni
inian
car
on
umti
-
u.
erman
who
was
found
uncon
with
some
of
the
best
and
1
heaviest
materiel
from
China.
Mayor-Elect,
Aldermen
.
Take
Oath
started
at
the
front
of
the
coi'ch,
Is
unknown.
However,
a
mnn
whose
name
was
not
re
scious
in
the
CNR
depot
waiting
room
yesterday
afternoon
and
Icy
Weather
French
army
sources
said
if
collisions
are
a
familiar
story
in
for
the
dinner
table
by
merely!
twisting
electric
dials.
Previ-!
ously,
he
said,
such
methods'
could
be
used
only
in
fresh
i
mental
train
No.
1,
""nil,
burst
Into
flumes
8
minutes
after
leaving
the
'"l
junction
at
2:05
a.m.
mrl
one
unidentified
mun
life
when
trapped
in
leased,
but
who
Is
believed
to
the
area.
have
occupied
a
compartment.
A
lifeboat
with
taken
to
Prince
Rupert
General
hospital
in
"fairly
good
condition"
it
was
reported
today.
an
attack
comes
on
Dien
Bien
Phu,
the
battle
will
be
hard
and
heavy.
a
crew
of
five
Hits
Ontario,
Ms
being
heid
Tor
questioning
Dy
Innllr-P
.Mi
'nmg
coach.
TORONTO
(CP)
Ontario
was
water.
Details
of
the
equipment
are
being
kept
a
strict
secret,
at
least
for
the
time
being,
he
said.
The
patent-holders
are
two
the
coldest
province
in
Canada
today
with
temperatures
sliding
to
60
below
zero
in
some
of
its
Mayor-elect
Georee
E.
Kills
took
the
oath
of
office
just
before
noon
today
when
he
was
sworn
in
by
City
Clerk
R.
W.
Long.
In
taking
the
oath
Mayor-elect
w
""n
other
passengers
In
r
'"raped
In
night
nttirc
'''king
the
windows
aikl
hi!
ii
sub-zero
weather
Hie
train
stopped
one
r't
of
the
station.
Their
-hies
were
lost.
"'
sufferec
cuts
and
physicist
Konradin
Normal
it
would
be
having
I
Germans,
(
.
.w
Kreutner
and
engineer
Heibert
10
Hills,
who
becomes
mayor
Janu-
temperatures
a
few
degrees
on
either
side
of
zero
at
this
time
was
launched
almost
immediately
from
the
Dealer.
Some
time
later
the
Chilean
freighter
Co-piapo,
bound
for
Baltimore
from
Philadelphia,
picked
up
the
lifeboat
crew
and
two
men
who
hud
been
rescued
from
the
river.
Wreck
Toll
Drops
As
10
Found
Safe
WELLINGTON,
N.Z.
iReuters)
The
known
death
toll
of
New
Zealand's
worst
train
wreck
was
revised
downward
today
to
136.
Keith
Holyoake,
deputy
premier,
said
10
more
passengers
It
is
believed
the
victim
boarded
the
train
at
Ottawa
and
was
travelling
to
Hailey-bury,
ont.
With
escape
to
the
car
ahead
rut
off,
those
trapped
In
the
burning
coach
fought
their
way
to
the
rear,
where
a
woman
passenger
used
her
travelling
case
to
break
a
window,
through
which
all
13
Jumped.
The
body
of
the
dead
man,
burned
beyond
recognition,
was
found
in
the
rear
vjsllbule
of
the
coach,
where
he
apparently
had
suf
of
year.
"lit
none
was
severely
Meteorologists
in
Toronto
said
WFATMFS
I
ary
succeeding
Mayor
Harold
l,tMln"
Whalen,
said
he
would
faith-
Forecast
I
fully
perform
the
duties
of
his
North
coast
region:
Cloudy
and
office
and
will
not
allow
any
mild.
Nearly
continuous
rain
private
interest
to
Influence
hi
id.
4t
was
the
coldest
spell
to
hit
P's-engers
were
bound
Ontario
for
a
number
of
years.
Ten
below
was
forecast
for
!
along
the
mainland
today
with
conduct
in
public
matters.
H
diversity
Wessor
areas
around
Toronto
Thursday
showers
elsewhere.
)
also
swore
allegiance
to
He
with
temperatures
moderating
I
Scattered-
showers
Thursday.
I
Majesty
Queen
Elizabeth
II
am
for
a
short
time
Friday.
Normal
j
Wind
southerly
20
except
in
ex-
all
her
heirs,
in
the
Toronto
area
and
southern
posed
parts
frequently
30.
j
Also
sworn
In
earlier
this
wee
parts
of
the
province
at
this
j
Low
tonight
and
high
Thurs-
1
were
Aldermen-elect
Normal
time
of
year
is
a
high
of
32
and
a
day
at
Port
Hardy,
Sandsplt
and
!
Bellis
and
Phil
Lyons
and
Alder-low
of
20
above.
j
Prince
Rupert,
38
and
44.
man
Mike
Krueger.
who
had
been
presumed
dead
now
are
known
to
be
safe.
He
Comics
gave
the
total
number
of
pas
focated
while
waiting
his
turn
ut
the
window.
Pembroke
firemen
fought
the
blaze
more
than
two
hours
before
it
was
extinguished.
When
the
train
crew
noticed
the
fiie,
the
10-car
train
was
brought
to
a
jolting
stop
and
the
burning
coach
uncoupled.
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sengers
on
the
death
train
as
278,
of
which
142
are
known
to
h
safe.
The
bodies
of
119
have
'been
recovered.
Russian
Santa
Gets
Orders
As
Soviet
Prepares
For
1954
Menuhin
Defends
Decision
Not
To
Travel
by
Plane
By
RICHARD
KASISt
I1KE
)
quality
goods.
MOSCOW
l
Old
Grandfather
Premier
Malenkovs
govern-Frost
is
getting
some
pretty
strict
j
ment
has
promised
more
and
orders
in
Russia
these
days.
He's
;
better
consumer
goods.
Letter
being
told
to
pack,
mama
dolls
'ITlNGllAM.
fcng.
(Reuters)
""iveisity
professor
went
to
itrurm
of
a
teachers'
con-w
here
Tuesday
night
and
wmelhlng
new
about
the
:s
children
are
so
fond
of
''B-he
defends
them.
Michael
Lewis,
director
of
'Sham
University's
instl-ul
education,
told
delegates
""me
strips
can
help
chlld-ICa'n
to
read
and
extend
Pabulary,
's
r,-kons"to
be
the
biggest
1
f
the
comics
In
Britain.
uiree
years
he
has
waded
Jh
120
of
them
a
week.
H'"'cy
ur
the
five
most
"ir
comics
taken
by
seven-olds
in
Glasgow
showed
74
ent
of
the
words
in
them
already
known
by
the
!ei;
six
per
cant
were
slang
'is-spelleii
onrt
ho
Amiiiu
".
.
.
Instead
of
saying
'mania
it
only
made
hoarse
sounds."
Moscow
newspapers
complained
also
about
the
cost
of
thi
toys.
A
doll's
chair
cost
22
rubles
as
much
as
a
chair
for
grownups.
The
Moscow
research
institute
on
toys
come
up
with
it
toy
kitchen
with
a
real
sink
water
in
the
tap,
washing
machine,
meat
grinder,
pots
ano
pans.
But
the
cost
was
1,500
rubles,
nearly
as
much
as
a
real
kitchen
for
a
real
family
would
cost.
'
The
ruble
is
quoted'
officially
at
four
to
the
United
States
dollar,
but
1,500
rubles
woul-J
amount
to
more
than
two
months'
salary
for
an
ordinary
In
his
letter
to
The
Times,
Menuhin
recalled
the
deaths
In
separate
crashes
of
French
violinists
Thibaud
and
Ginette
Neveu,
and
American
pianist
William
Kapcll.
He
was
confident
he
would
fly
again,
but
would
wait
until
plane
designers
have
eliminated
the
danger
of
crashing
on
mountain
slopes
the
type
of
accident
which
killed
his
friends.
His
motive
was
dictated
"not
by
fright
but
by
a
compelling
impulse
besetting
a
surviving
violinist."
columns
01
soviet
newspapers
disclose
that
the
Russian
consumer
wants
to
see
this
reflected
in
better-made
gifts
now
that
holiday
buying
is
in
full
swing.
A
parent
who
bought
a
doll
for
his
daughter
had
this
indignant
comment:
"The
Instructions
said
that'
this
doll
could
walk,
roll
Its
eyes
and
say
'mama.
The
doll
looks
very
nice
if
you
ignore
the
fact
that
its
wig
is
made
of
rags
and
cotton
waste
glued
to
the
head,
instead
of
hair.
Neither
we
nor
our
child
could
make
the
doll
walk.
LONDON
!
Violinist
Ye-hudi
Menuhin
today
defended
his
recent
decision
not
to
travel
by
plane.
He
wrote
the
Times
of
London
that
mountain
crashes
have
claimed
three
of
his
colleagues,
all
prominent
musicians,
and
he
doesn't
want
to
be
a
fourth.
.
Last
month
Menuhin
cancelled
an
engagement
in
Israel
because
he
would
have
had
to
travel
by
plane
to
get
there
in
time.
Several
British
newspapers
chlded
the
violinist
for
grounding
himself."
that
really
say
mama
and
boys'
games
that
won't
fall
apart
when
he
makes
his
gift-bearing
rounds
on
New
Year's
Day.
Grandfather
Frost
is
the
Soviet
version
of
Santa
Claus.
He
arrives
a
week
before
Christmas
in
the
Soviet
Union,
which
is
observed
Jan.
7
in
accord
with
the
old
Julian
calendar
used
by
the
Russian
orthodox
church.
Friday,
millions
of
Soviet
children
will
gather
around
fir
trees
to
receive
gifts
and
sweets.
The
grown-ups
exchange
gifts,
too,
and
this
year
the
cry
is
for
SANTA
CLAUS
takes
one
of
the
first
shipments
ot
Christmas
presents
into
his
new
post
office,
high
on
the
slopes
of
Whiteface
Mountain
in
the
Adirondacks
In
New
York
State.
Yep!
The
U.S.
Government
finally
authorized
a
fourth-class
post
office
at
North
Pole,
N.Y.,
and
Santa's
mighty
proud
of
It.
to
Oer
,
'fill'HuU.
'
I
factory
worker.