LI33ATT,f , QRMES i t 1 PRCVU3IAL 113 DftUGS iVICTO?.IA, 2. C. r.: I DAILY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'8 NEWSPAPER V CABS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" I Phone DISPATf HKI : VOL. XLI, No. 17 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTS DELIVERY 81 j VI t H- t . .. . IP; r Ministers Take Over Vacancies Forty-Five American Soldiers Perish ' IAf f tag km m ;i : . ii f? t v t iT'A'i Lose Lives vvmie on Their Way home to bee O wn Sick and Dying 1 emmw i ' - - ? - In Crashes VICTORIA Premier Byron Johnson has assigned governmental departments. Conservative ministers of wbich resigned last week, to remaining Liberal members of the cabinet. The premier is retaining tne title coalition for his government. Pending the election, the cabinet now consists of only seven members. The Premier himself takes over the ministry of finance; Hon. J ; H. Cates, minister of labor, also VANCOUVER (CP) - Forty-! We M I They persona perished Saturday Valiant Work of Rescuers at Sandspit Saved Some Lives liodies Being Recovered By LARRY STANWOOD . . ft -, V- ,; . three ulane eraMie.i.nn the wen' Prayed Crash ccist. Thirty six persons, includ-i 1 f i ins a stewardess, were lost wher i J a United States bound Korean ' airlift plane crashed into the Pacific ocean near Sandspit off the Queen Charlotte Islands. Seven were rescued. Srenes of Poignancy in Wintry Sea SEATTLE (CP) At McChord Air Force base here today seven survivors of the Sandspit DC4 crash told il praying in unison A tragic story unfolded today at an isolated landing field on the Queen Charlotte Islands while dying relatives at home will not see their sons, husbands, and fathers who were coming home from Korea and Japan on compassionate leave. Seven survived. Ten bodies, have been found and dragging, j would land at about one thirty beachcombing and diving oper-A.M. Saturday. It overshot the ations are still under way to , Sandspit airfield, landing a mile Three were killed when a B-17 i bomber, returning home after 1 1. becomes minister of mines; Hon. H!xrry Bow man, minister of agriculture, also assumes railways and fisheries; Hon. A. D. Turn-bull, minister of health and welfare, takes on municipal affairs and trade and commerce, and Hon. E. T. Kenney, minister of lands, also becomes minister of public works. Hon. Gordon Wispier, attorney general, away when the crisis came last week, returned to Victoria today. Hon. W. T. Straith, minister of education, is' due searching for the plane down in as they watched their comoan ;the Queen Charlottes, clipped j (0))s ept from tfte wing'one f TOWN Stone ruins of a once-thriving centre near the southwestern Ontario hamlet by one to their deaths in icy seas 'tain (Mount Tyler) in Northern ii near Kitchener now are a popular tourist attraction. They once housed Breweries, tunn-'ry, shoe factory and Wher buildings In a village founded in 1845. The village was rein re for 20 years but then gradually began to die. The nearby hamlet of Salem ipart Wa.sh ngtcm during a snowstorm U Hjn West , It catapu tea over a peak and f sk.dded to the five thousand pedBbeli8th : al e WBM. foot level where It burst '"to:. tii is ftiown in the oacKgroundi nas a popuiauon or tuo. (CP fhutui Six airmen were burned to ! ff J!? "ff ,?.e f nee Rupert Hoopsters Ghost Town death at the Mather Air Force : u u,u,','',l "'" - 'c "' laler' ulcs ba.se near Sacramento, Califor-; Lieut. Donald E. Baker of niR whon .i disabled hnmher i locate 26 more bodies of a crew ! further in a shallow bay. and U.S. Army personnel pas-, Everett Thompson was the sengers of a DC4 Northwest i operator on duty when the plane Airlines plane which crashed ; approached the runway from the near the shore here early Sat- J nortn Xne operator had been in urday morning. j ' contact with the pilot "every few Today an American Air Force minutes. But, when he came in helicopter was scheduled to ar- j to land, I knew he was going rive aboard a "Flying Boxcar" ; to overshoot," said Thompson, from McChord Airbase to con- j "He hit the runway once about tinue search for bodies while a third way in then skimmed RCAF divers will attempt to dis- the surface and took off again." lodge .bodies from the sunken 1 John Davey, customs officer, and aircraft. i Bill Mitchell, airport mainten- Three dead are crew, includ-! ance man, were in the radio ing a woman stewardess. Other room standing by. dead are American soldiers re-I Mitchell was on hand with the pancaked atop a crowded guardhouse and exploded ten minutes later. king Senior A Plunge n Ontario iiict' Iiupcit Co-operative Challengers, , Prince. i RAl.FM Orit Ahnut n Cln- back this week. FINAL BLOW -IP Coalition was formed in 1941. Stresses and strains on it during last year blew the union Friday when Premier Johnson asked for the resignation of the finance ' minister, Herbsrt Anscomb, Progressive Conservative leader. Mr. Anscomb resigned and so did his three Progressive Conservative cabinet colleagues. Anscomb announced at the same time Progressive Conservative members of the 48 seat legislature would move to the Opposition benches. I On Friday this left the Liberals The Northwest Airlines D C-4 Glendale, California, said survivors on 'he wing "siowly fell away.", About three minutes before the rescue boat came there were ten. "We were numbed with cold and they kept slipping away from us." s senior rep nasKeioaiiers, nave decided to ,,. ' h' a,lri wmsiM trying for an emergency Senior B company, in which they have been future seemed in store for this ''"b J Sa"dsp'tHAir,J"rt1fl .1 , northeast I l"e Charlotte islands , A ; community 16 miles of peni ior me iui lew year.-, una jo oemur j Kitehene. . Us 500 residents found when it ran out of the runway and smacked into water three- Decision means Prinri Rilnprt nmnlrutupni in lun hrpwprlfn n turning home from Tokyo and ; airport firewagon because of the Korea. warning that one engine of the STEWARDESS "WONDEKFIX" ; One survivor said the stewardess, Jean Cheadle, Seattle, Ail passengers were going i piane was out Both saw the Slides to Pentlcton in March ' 1u"ners of ? ml'e oltt shore- goes early tannery, a shoe factory, a grist 1 . for provincial semi-finaLs there.! mill, a sawmill and a pot-barley j Jen,were"led ln tne fmasn- The winners will meet Lower ; mill. I Th?, oU'" 33 c,raled ?.ut. on ,a Mainland vs. Vancouver Island ! a'f subn?"Sd wm8 but my Totlav crumblinc ' ruins of sU.ne e (fraoung "f 7 able to until were hang on ,,, fllal ,nr ,h ....nvinz-ipt semi-final for the piovlnclal buildings are the. on v tancib e ... ... home on "emergency leave, sam , aDOrtive landing and take-off. was "Just wonderlul. ( an investigating U.S. Army of On nf them shnntprt t. thp!w",h 23 seats and the combined i "She helped us all and we were j tlclal here Tneir relatives at all praying for her but she slip- nome wcre either dangerously ili ped off, crying: -Help mcf or near death. operator: "What is he banking opposition with 22 The balance so steep for at such a low alti-1 01 Power was held b lnree mem" title. . - ' : itinue cuuie in nic luiin ui two reminder u th 100 r so re- I , i -i,if .,., i i.... tude?" Later thev told the Dailv.ocrs wno were enrwu m-t ish All thU leads to interprovin-, maininE rcsldenU that their I 41. ""l" , ' -, Id Trains Tr.ifflr Aitain Tied Une man swam auer ner out Wrntlinr and a watphf.il Sanri- News reporter i that the plane --- iinniiLk wuu w, ,u jt-o,a v,. w nnmtwr iuc viuftTnri Mint an unr nriT rparn nrr hp nurt'iv .. ,. , i championship finals. Uhe bu.iest in the northern part :riv xri(irs,prp hrn,.ht .emim, to crawl hark on the 3" a"io-. " e "e?iu,cu?! appeared no more than fitly Practices of the locals will now of Welltnelon county. Only the ' hv , ,IS ,,.,, 0arri hPlieontnr. winr himself 1 'ne, on Li , tu V" . '..,' from the edge of the run lili fiiiitrly. by Snow rtimtwrire m real- ean.eiit and i grist null is still m use. ; saving the lust seven men who way wnen it banked sharply to iclung with only their nerves to .hp , ft ' as straight coalitionists. These three votes were swung to the Liberals Saturday. One of the Coalitionfhts, Labor Minister John Cates. showed his acceptance of the Liberal banner by taking on the new portfolio of mines. Another. Herbert Welch, mem- a protruding wing of the party . ' VK, , they will get outside competi-j Except for artists who visit' tion in a series to be played this lnc community for subject mat-', week-end here with Ketchikan : Ui.. i.;w know the picturesque; submerged tour-engined aircraft, ' . Operator Thompson said he in and out of Prince ip indefinitely tied up 'lay by snowslides and in the lower Skeena he train, which was to ie out tonight, will not a quarter mile from shore. called the aircraft several times all-stars. Greatest Peacetime Budget at Washington WASHINGTON. President Truman sent Con- j No names of passengers sur- vivors or lost were released 1 pending notification of next-of-! kin. i beauty of the deep gorge of the Irvine River which was harnessed ' ; to operate its mills in the last ; j century. i A man named Sam Wlssler, who i Names of lost crew arc Capt. Russia's Puck Bid Reiected (Continued on page 2t Seiner Sinks At Cow Bay ber for. Comox, said he would j suport Johnson and political ob-i servers took it for granted a third, B. Mclntyre, member for Mackenzie, would follow suit. I The shuffle added no new I members to the cabinet but simp-jly distributed tlv portfolios held j by Progressive Conservatives to 'tl,n nM T Ihnral pnhinpf mpmhpr came with his brothers from Clay ress today an $85,440,000,000 budget for 1952-5J5 John Pfaffinger, First Officer county. Pennsylvania, founded ' . , , . , . , choombc and Stewaress June the village in i45. He was the which is an unprecedented figure for the United &.npulc uU of Seattle. lore tomorrow afternoon aig. Tlie next inbound Tuesday niglt. ir, four miles west of Is a r -nlly large one -leim and 25 feet deep. it slide, five miles east ii.su. is llio feet, long and 'vt deep. "Hal trouble is caused U.S. ,Army official said the i guiding gennis of the industrial e) laU t tXC f.cci)t ill 111 ail illl-(r?lt a" mi War ' ZURICH Russia's uppllen- development Ihal followed his i ' The President said it was a ' forty soldier passengers were all Hon t' participate ln the Oiym- urst clearing of the land. His pic hockey tournament was turn- influence grew until he was able d down Sunday by the Interna- to nrnmge that a railway Ihinul lire Hockey Federation. I ranched miles out. of its way to, Dr Fritz Drautz, president of, p-arby Fergus instead. Those! "heavy burden" the price of going home on emergency leave, peace. It would amount to $550 Officers who interviewed the for every man, woman and child , men said some had fathers and In the United States. Mr. Tru-! mothers dangerously ill. A young man warned there is grim evl-; lieutenant had a daughter tly-dence that "the Kremlin would ' Ing. Yesterday it was reported not stop at resorting to war In she had died. Two brothers were order to gum ivs ends." among those saved. They said , (that, if one had been drowned, nt; .snow live to ten feel the way between Kwln-Terrace. Is no railwny trouble Terrace. ihe HHf, told a meeting of the two blows marked the beginning edi ration's executive committee Qf the end Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd. big n ,eft lne povprnmcnt. with a hsh . Ace sunk packer Western lay sovrn man cabm(,t 0Cln or tn(, at the entrance of Cow this Bay . smallcst t recf llt B c. hisU)rv. morning, only mast and the tip Premlcr johnson . announced of the bow showing, and salvage tne next sessjon o parliament ls operations were being essayed set to start February 19 and will this afternoon- by Armour Sal- non sch(,tUlc A provincial vat..- Co. with a view to raising ,ncra, cccUon is rorcrast for the vessel and taking her to Mc- ,iy or junc Lean boat yard at Seal Cove. Thlx , Ktrait!ht coalitionist in Last evening, the vessel start- ' t.,c Legislature have gone Over ed to tilt while on the Prince Ru- t,0 the government and the divi-pert Fishermen's Co-opvrativc sjon of scuts is thus: mat inn application arrived 100 As tiu, .surrounding land was lato fiv consideration as the Oslo Conr.ivss nc-xt month will take piece Just before the games I'.art. rn Down the other would have drowned I too trying to save him. Their j father was dying in San Francisco. Tlie survivors, seven of them, ways. Fearing that damage would Liberals 26 I .ill tt nf th-hprnUm nf the cleared for farming, the tannery closed for lack of tanbark and thi- sawmill for lack of timber. The fhoc factory closed becau.se there was no leather from the tannery. Farmers began to feed their grain to livestock and there was none for the barley mill and the bieweries. People moved away. Now, even the stone ruins uir sinking and crumbling, a ghost town's last monument to high hopes. i stewardess who died trying to , b do"e ,thpre. ?he wf ken off l ... .. ...... I ii' with t.h a a view Vlpw to n hpuph beaching ntr in In shal nnal. ncouver Pioneer City Woman Passes I save soldiers thrown mio me Coalition Break Not Unexpected Was Bound To funic, Says Mcltac Boss" Did Right Thin A Progressive Conservatives 11 C.C.F 8 Independents 2 Labor .' 1 - T i D eT- 'tion lor Admission "(hall I nimi Itejectrd low water. Before that could be done, she sank. No one was injured Capt. Geofrey White of Massct was skipper of the vessel. I h..llA (PrllP Wpstem In- ;l.fnwtienal Football Union Sun- waters. Survivors said about 30 of the pj-ssengers got out of the aircraft through the emergency door. All of them tried to get onto the protruding wing but incoming tide swells would wash them off into the sea. Then others, swimming around the aircraft, would try for the wing. Mrs. Duniel Sclierk, pioneer Prince Rupert woman, died Sunday aflfmoon In Victoria at ft private nursing home. Seventy-eight years of age, she had been fi'iM'd to admit the Vau lAt.'K 1MCIUK . . . Says "Boys" nt ry for tlv 1952 season. Did Right ;i described by the Van I Tuesday, January 22, 11)52 Hubert Ward returned to the High 8:41 , 19.5 feet city on the Camosun last night 22:21 15.7 feet from a business trip to Vancou- Low .. 2:00 10 0 feet ver. I 15:54 6.0 feet End of the coalition between Liberals and Progressive 8on- representatives as the 1,1 l,,,or ,,Jr yeuia. i breach of faith in thc!clob(,r sllc lrft rHncc Ilui'l'rt of sport. f"r Victoria. . fl ' h.. s. Several men struck out for the .servallvcs in British Columbia's slorc Kwimming. initial convention rejvet-! fxi till l-reoeceased oy ner nusouuu u few years ago, Mrs. tacherk is survived by five sons-Russell, Mpuhpii RvmmiH nnrl Vemoll. a.sl league' application 1 TODAY'S STOCKS '" llriinelil.se Weather Syllepsis ley Arctic air is rushing sout h-vard tlvotigh the interior on the hrels of a bitter north wind. Temperatures tumbled sharply ln the Caribou last niglTt with ninlmums of 20 below reported Cuesnel and Prince George. Egyptians Murder Nun ISMAILIA & British troops oday sj-oured Arab quaj ters here in the wake of the slaying of a ew York-born nun. A British Army announcement 'list, night said "it has been es r r k the discussion in Re- nit nf Prtnpp Rimprf ur.d Rex (Courtesv H. 11. Jtilint'iii C'. 1.1(1. )a delegates threatened to in vietorla' mid one dauL'hter. government was not aitoginerj n ls estimated 13 of the bodies unexpected by J. D. McRac, MLA are slill ln Ule aircraft. Sur- for Prince Rupert, even if it vlvors sai(i: Many were knocked did, In the end, come suddenly. uucn.sclou.s . . ." Mr. McRae returned to the HKSCl'K OPKRATIONS city at the end of the week Operations of recovering bod- from the south where hp aUnd- les was started Saturday with ed final sessions of the special dragging and surface searching, inauirv board of the Legislature Seven bodies were found Sut- iiimtirij A 111 witlitlrawlng from the Mrs Rena Bvesley in Kamloops. ! Many old friends will regret to the iippliculion had been.'.ipar of Mrs. Scherk's demise. the Calgary delegates i The remains are being brought prepared statement, say-i homo Wednesday aboard the Progress of this cold wave to llfU('l VANCOl'VDR American Standard .27 Bralorne 5.90 Congrless '. .06 Ctonin Bablnc 57 Giunt "Mascot .98 Indian Mines 23 Pernio Oreille 8.4D Pioneer 1.90 ward the south coast is expected on the Industrial Conciliation urday, three more Sunday, to be rather slow although the j Act. He was ln the south when RCAF divers from Pat Bay m 'ii tablished" that Sister Anthony. v would refer the question 'steamer Prince George by Ver ' v.it,cirawinK to the full Cul arrived early Sunday but could the not get a boat until high winds eeutive 52. was killed by one group of Fraser Valley will feel its effects I the coalition break came. Egyptian "thugs'V who invaded a "jvernlght Pressures in the Yu-j Mr McRac, speaking to convent garden td throw a bomb kon are extremely high and -' Da.ily natlv News News noted noted that that over over two prevented uivmg. runner ai at Britons. ls expected that this cold spell vcars a,,0 Liberals and Con- tempts will be made today. non Scherk. who flew south yesterday, and the funeral will be held Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Scherk was one of the founders of the Pentecostal Mission here and continued active in its work through the years. .33 .08 y-t .04 Premier Border .... ... Privateer Reno will be or several days duration I quest Into The nun was killed during a four-hour buttle between British ! roups and Kgyptlan snipers. ocrvatives had passed resolutions Also scheduled to arrive today to end coalition "at an appro- a ".'"''Be classified army trnns- prititc time in the future." Then port." ,i,p P,,for.ihiP hinli.i. leLsiu- One problem in ii:overing I GALE WARNING North Coast Region Gale warning Issued. Mostly clear Tragedy I'oeg the mainland. Cloudy with! tl011 was passed as "another dlcs arc the sea lice which Bevcoutt 73 Buffalo Canadian 10 Vi Consul. Smelters 196.00 Conwest 3.70 Donalda - 46 Eldona .19 East Sullivan 9.15 Giant Yellowknife 12.00 God's Lake 37 Hardrock lit', Hurricana IVX Heva .10'is Jolief. Quebec 4R I.ltle Long Lac i Lynx 13 Malscn Red Lake 1.56 McKenzie Red Lake .... 44 McLeod Cockshut 2.84 Moneta 35 Negus 6 Noranda 80.75 Louvieourt 28 Fickle Crow 1.80 San Ahtonio 2.59 Senator Rouyn 11 Shcrrit Gordon 4.30 Steep Rock 7.00 Silver Miller 1.52 Upper Canada 1.71 Golden Manitou 6.95 have started their ravages on the Kleiv scattered snow flurries. ' siem)llll, .s.nnn." These moves bodies. elsewhere clearing late this eve-; iau lcll tnc puDiic with Hie United KIiiI.pk Armv Rescuers of the survivors, who ning. Colder. Wind-north 15 feeling that the coalition was Truce Settlement Between Britain and Egypt Reached only Serving on a temporary .,1,!?, day, were Robert Glass and ,rf"finel and American flying 'til jwere involved, a Cunadian ,nu,t must he lielrl ini.i tin. except northeast (35) down mainland inlets. Lows tonight j and highs tomorrow at Port to break status and was "goin Jack Fra.ser, Department of Truns- nnrl. nnprntors. whn rpm'hpd the sooner or later. Slash trained v nt. Hini unit. Sheep Creek 1.70 Silvak Premier 66 Vananda 19 Salmon Gold 04 Spud Valley 20 t-'llver Standard " 2.-50 Western Uranium 3.00 Oils A P Con 60 Calmont 2.40 Central Leduc 3.15 Home OU .. 17.00 Mercury 28 Okalta 4.30 Pacific Pete 10 25 Royal Canadian .27 TORONTO Aumaque .21 Vi Beattie .19 'Hid. Sandtpil 20 and 20. Prince Rupert, 10 and 20,. "It would have been a diffi- scene or the crash m a f0urteen- Charlotte 'islands, which' "" 8 lwli.,.i . , l.fllKU W - r.gypiltlll liew. papeis eiainieu iuu.ij Mini, ninn ivn cult session anvwav." comment foot outboard motor boat at Rlil.ht rtimuiro iu.. ,l,mo In n cu "II . 111 ugaiu lu Hie aU0llt tlliee A.M.. all llOUr aild wall by a short circuit Ln wiring ! forthcoming sitting of the Legis- a naU after thc cl.ash. starting fire at 11:55 this morn- ,ature- I'IKST TltOl'BLE ' ing at Chandler's Studio on! "Premier Johnson did the Bound for Tacoma air base. Fourth Street. The fire depart- right thing," Mr. McRae agreed, the DC4 airliner reported engine sx lives lll"'ly" I Saud of Arabia lias worked out a truce settlement -for Britain and A Sroroner on th - I-l-m ' KJ'Pt following ; "secret correspondence" with President Truman. leejiiy oprm,c ' a he-uiiiV so! Tllc 1lan P'ov'1' for evacuation of British troops from the the bodies of survivors! Bucz Callul zone recoBiiltlon of the unity of Egypt und the Sudan, niigat be identified and released i United States to arm an Egyptian armored unit of 30,000 men .j?t'Uver.V to their homes. 1 Iree of charge and Egypt to Join the Middle East command in a t tUlence will be taken later, j light against Communism. ment was promptly on hand to "He showed himself more of a trouble shortly before midnight i iexUiiuili the incipient blaze, (leader than ever." and advtsed Sandspit radio UJ