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BRITIflH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
at
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prine
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XUI,
No.
81
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.C..
TUESDAY.
APRIL
7.
1953
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Official
Prisoner-Exchange
Agreement
Reached
By
The
Canadian
Prew
PANMUNJOM,
Korea
An
agreement
for
erf-change
of
sick
and
wounded
prisoners-of-war
between
United
Nations
forces
and
Chinese
Communists
was
agreed
to
in
principle
at
the
truce
meeting
last,
nio-ht.
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i
i
m
i
i
i
r-
",
l
r
lit
1
1
Army
Wives
Overseas
!K
tl
F
CASAIM
AN
OFFICERS
nd
NCC's
have
Joined
their
husband
who
arc
on
ri:;j
,
West
Germany.
The
wives
say
tin
y
like
it
fine
although
the
Canadian
govcru-:!n
.!
policy
l
"t
K
"encourage"
then
to
so
abroad
Here
Is
a
group
of
wives
at
lunch
.fEarV-n.
Hannover.
By
Ti
Cidin
Pres.
MOSCOW.
-The
Run-nians
have
fired
a
key
Communist
party
official
for
failing
to
detect
the
falsity
of
the
"doctors'
plot"
charges,
I'ravda
an-
r
ert
Socreds
To
Nominate
to
I
3!
2rtiJ
I
l'vvV
-"'jN'
if,.
.
'
'
I'
"
i
J.
-
-
ndidate
Here
Next
Monday
Inounced
today.
I
He
Is
Somynn
iKnatiev,
niein-i
her
of
the
party's
five-man
sec-
Rj"l
Sjfiul
Credit
j
A
Social
Credit
candidate
in
enter
the
race
this
year.
j
retartat.
hold
iu
nominating
lsut
year
cifclion
campaign
A
likely
randidale
rumored
to
'
The
official
party
newspaper
h.rt
net
Monday,
U
during
whkh
lie
gained
his
way
be
nominated,
however,
I
Bill
ald
Innatlcv,
who
was
given
the
fs--
Almost
immediately
after
the
business-like
truce
talks
broke
up,
the
first
wounded
UN
prisoner
was
released
to
his
unit.
A
badly-wounded
marine
was
escued
from
no-man's
land
after
Chinese
Communist
soldiers
carried
him
part
of
the
way
to
UN
lines
and
called
for
U.S.
marines
to
come
and
get
him.
Four
marines
and
a
chaplain
nicked
up
the
wounded
Puerto
Rican
while
a
squad
of
Communist
soldiers
stood
nearby.
While
the
UN
terms
of
the
brisoner
exchange
were
agreed
to
In
principle
by
the
Communists,
the
actual
mechanics
still
must
be
worked
out.
But
these
are
only
minor
disagreements
and
allied
officers
said
they
anticipated
no
trouble
in
reaching
a
quick
settlement.
The
Reds
said
they
would
port
within
the
next
day
or
so
!o,iay
by
Art
Ui
popularity
by
unorthodox-
Murray,
well-known
city
hotel
secrcianai
post
only
last
month,
proprietor.
no
relation
to
Art
i0
oren
released
irom
his
for
type
met)ng&
and
outdoor
raliie,
Mr.
Murray
aaid
he
would
not
?)-'
ori'nUer
rrt
U.rt
Whether
the
Koiial
Credit
will
'
d"les.
name
a
candidate
for
the
Atlin
prvda
dlsclo.sed
Monday
that
riding
is
riot
certain,
althouKh
ha,i
"4
the
security
min-the
oartv
has
Indicated
it
will
i
l"try
1"""B
the
time
when
the
eharges
against
15
doctors
were
being
prepared.
Western
observers
speculated
that
the
attack
on
such
a
rank-
contest
every
seat
In
the
June
9
provincial
election.
Art
Murray
said
at
least
two
Social
Credit
minister
lnelud-
.....
T
A
'
TI
.......
t
trrtui
l
llllKllb
1IIUK
HlC
,
T.
KENNEY
.
.
.
retiring
fflMCT
LET
FOR
WORK
DODGE
COVE
WHARF
AAA
.'.!,
trwt
fur
repalr.i
to
the
wharf
at
IXxlye
i
Kstc
Rujji
rt.
has
been,
let
Ui
the
Oland
LoKglr.R
i.tMt.:-.g
Coii.pany,
ft
la
announced
by
Uie
federal
-it.
of
yuU'.'.c
auiks
.
.
.
.
'
::.
tl.o
contract
is
coiLtruction
of
a
six
by
10-foot
t.-cvhun.of
a
ioo-pound
capacity
steel
derrick
or
the
CADETS
FROM
SIX
El
ROPEAN
NATIONS
study,
drill,
play
and
fly
alongside
members
of
the
RCAF
at
the
cosmopolitan
air
aavigatlon
school
on
Winnipeg's.
Stevenson
field.
Boarding
a
plane
are,
left
to
right:
J.
Roussic,
Candeda,
France;
Louis
Lybaert,
Prasbourg,
Belgium,
and
Alving
Cecil
Ross,
Cobden,
Ont.
CadeU
from
England,
Italy,
Norway
and
Holland
also
attend.
.ik
herVg
ttorii"
Krem.
Con
campaign.
j
KuwrnawM
announced
t
AMPAlc.N
ACTIVITIES
i
last
Friday
thut
the
doctors
had
Ca.mmiim
activilips
a
m
a
n
u
i
been
released
aftw
investlga-
!
how
many
disabled
prisoners
E.
T;
Kenney
they
would
deliver
to
Panmun-
ilom
for
exchange,
which
could
1
start
within
a
week
after
the
other
parlies
here
are
pending
j
Provide
charges,.
against
plans
were
completed.
Civilian
Russia
Asks
U.S.
Drop
provlnaaluwnMiiUona
in
Van-
j
ul?
Thfy
eJj
h-id
TJf
-efn
neriwed)
touver.
war
internees
will
be
Included.
The
Communists
agreed
to.
The
Liberal
meet
here
April
Announces
Retirement
E.
T.
Kenney,
lands
and
forest
minister
in
the
previous
Liberal
government,
is
retiring
after
20
years
in
the
B.C.
Legislature.
killing
two
Soviet
leaders
and
plotting
to
murder
several
others
by
faulty
treatment.
Exchange
of
all
sick
and
Mine
Welcome
Sight
Germ
Warfare
Probe
UNITED
NATIONS,
N.Y.
C8
as
Russia
was
concerned.
Russia
appealed
to
the
United
'
He
expressed
"surprise
tinged
States
today
to
drop
its
impar-
i
with
regret"
that
the
U.S.
re-
wounded
prisoners
including
those
with
minor
disabilities.
This
means
direct
repatriation
15
to
name
their
candidate
fol-i
lowing
their
caucus
which
opens
i
tomorrow
to
select
a
provincial
leader
and
form
party
platform.
!
The
(XT
are
sponsoring
a
pub-'
lie
meeting
at
the
Civic
Centre
Anrll
10
Iji
hour
Hnroi.
Hills
to
homelands
of
all
prisoners.
kwing
'Dull'
March
including
those
who,
under
the
Duke
Available
For
Any
Post
tiai
investigation
of
Communist
acted
so
vigorously
against
the.'opnpva
Mr.
Kenney
said
in
Vancouver
today
that
he
has
wired
the
Liberal
Association
in
the
nor
Convention
of
1949,
charges
that
American
troops
charges,
briefly
reviewed
Red
ouiA
otherwise
be
sent
to
neu.
h;h
fioodid
the
skies
In
the
north
coast
region,
j,ila
following
his
return
from
waged
germ
warfare
in
Korea.
-rt
nr.
today
was
'little
change
In
temperature,
th
ijmiature
and
Frldav's
Dro-
thern
constituency
of
Skeena
that
he
will
not
run
this
year.-
NEW
YORK
(CP)
The
Duke
har'ju.e-r
of
H'rlng
and
winds
northwest
20
off
the
vlncial
convention..
He
has
represented
'
Skeena
ch
:i
nutwithstand-
mainlund
roast,
otherwise
light.
tral
countries.
Both
sides
will
report
the
number
of
sick
and
wounded
to
be
traded,
and
break
the
figure
down
by
nationality.
Communistjt
madp
nnlv
one
since
1933
in
24
sessions
of
the
legislature.
y
CCF
also
will
seek
a
new
leader
if
rerent
resignation
by
Harold
Winch
is
accepted.
Low
Uinlght
and
high
Wed-:
nesday
for
Prince
Rupert
arci
30
and
45.
"evidence"
supporting
the
charges
in
one
of
the
shortest
speeches
the
Soviet
Union
ever
made
on
a
major
international
issue,
and
then
called
for
an
end
of
committee
discussion
on
the
subject.
Zorin
added:
"If
the
VS.
pressed
the
proposal,
the
Soviet
Union
cannot
agree
to
an
impartial
Investigation
since
the
Mr.
Kenney,
65,
was
leader
of
Soviet
delegate
Valerian
Zorin
told
the
60-nation
UN
Political
Committee
there
Is
'"no
need
for
the
committee
to
consider
details"
of
the
charges
now.
v
He
urged
Instead
that
the
U.S.
ratify
the
Geneva.
Convention
against
bacteriological
warfare
and
indicated
such
action
would
close
the
incident
as
far
The
Progressive
Conservatives!
f
reservation:
Uie
six-member
Liberal
group
In
the
last
legislature-
have
not
decided
whether
or
not
they
will
contest
the
Prince
Rupert
riding.
Meanwhile,
possibility
was
seen
today
of
an
independent
candidate
entering
the
race
in
opio-sltlon
lo
Mr.
Hills,
CCF
MI.A.
of
Windsor
said
today
he
Is
still
available
as
always
for
a
post
in
the
British
government,
but
no
Such
assignment
is
in
sight.
"I
was
always
available
and
I
am
stili
available,"
the
Duke
said
In
on
interview
on
his
return
from
England
where
he
attended
the
funeral
of
his
mother,
Queen
Mary.
Since
her
death
there
has
been
speculation
he
might
return
to
England
to
live
or
to
take
a
government
Job.
However,
he
said
there
has
been
no
change
in
his
plans.
m
hisiUnt
In
mak-
tth-r
(wo
d.ivj
of
huii
Iwrast
(i,r
ihc
'
ri'tiun.
Ust
month's
al
w,n
be
forgot-
4
tlx-
weatherman
sl.!i-!irs
ol
March
'fUi
hours
ui
sun-
hmh
limixrHlure.
:
moan.
327.
There
of
II
HI
Inrhes
of
I"
Inches
ol
snow
;'r":p.inli(,ii
ol
12
97
r.n.'d
on
29
of
tlie
West
to
Speak
At
Gun
Club
Meet
Tonight
jU.S.
has-opposed
the
presence
!
at
the
UN
of
Communist
Chl-j
nese
and
North
Korean
authori-!
ties
to
present
their
side
of
the
I
case."
,
"We
reserve
the
right
to
ask
for
accommodaUon
In
a
neutral
country
of
those
prisoners-of-war
In
custody
of
your
side
who
will
not
be
directly
repatriated."
This
puzzled
allied
negotiators,
since
It
already
had
been
agreed
to
by-pass
Article
110
of
the
Geneva
ConvenUon,
which
assigns
to
a
neutral,
country
prisoners
with
minor
wounds
who
might
be
able
to
fight
again
within
a
year.
Sinclair
Won't
Seek
1953
Estimates
Over
$4
Billion
!
i
OTTAWA
O
The
Conitnons.
Speaker
at
the
Rupert
Rod
Si
Oun
Club
monthly
meeting
tonight
will
be
O.
A.
West,
supervisor
of
predatory
animal
con
1
B.C.
Post
VANCOUVER
Last
minute
a
trol
ot
the
Briti-sh
Columbia
The
UN
holds
132.000
Red
oOM-rvatloiis
la.-.t
'
fresh
from
a
brief
Faster
holiday
iwent
back
back
to
to
w0,k
work
i
today
faced
25
Attend
Meet
to
Form
Flying
Club
Special
lo
Toe
Dwlly
News
SMITHERS
Formation
of
the
Smithers
Flying
Club
was
pom-pleted
over
the
Easter
week-end
with
25
enthusiasts
in
attendance
at
a
meeting
in
the
Municipal
Hall.
H.
P.
(Dick)
Heggie
was
elected
president.
Other
officers
elected
were
A.
R.
Leach,
vice-president
;
J.
A.
Thomas,
secretary-treasurer;
R.
H.
Dunlop,
M.
L.
Bannister,
G.
L.
Williams,
T.
J.
Col-lison
and
G.
V.
Murray
directors.
Membership
committee
headed
?wn!
:;'::,
,
prisoners.
About
51,000
have
said
they
don't
want
to
go
back
with
an
imminent
rendezvous
I-,...
1.
,
.
n
lout
i.f
I
itM
1
1
1
inifil
uritu
move
to
draft
Fisheries
Minister
James
Sinclair
as
provincial
home.
The
Reds
said
last
De
irn
imerliir
as
I
-
'm,
th
and
demaiidina
ac
Candy
Company
Fire
Claims
Veteran
Fireman
;
"-any
localities
in
Oilier
guest
is
Bill
.Mali
news,
t"
,
"
president
of
the
Terrace
Rod
&
:U,uiiUince--esll.naUs.
...
.
Thi
Pitlmales
traditionally
leader
of
the
Liberal
Party
failed
Monday.
cember
18
they
hold
3,198
Americans,
about
1,000
British
and
Commonwealth
soldiers,
and
clear
r
mostly
Business
on
the
agenda
in-1
Pdc
themelves
In
a
big
bluej
A
leader
to
succeed
former
some
9,000
South
Koreans.
Premier
Byron
Johnson
will
be
irman
chosen
at
the
party
convention
eludes
reixirU
of
.
rommltU-es
i
book
wiilcll
snows
wie
oisjmuo,,
imd
election
of
a
delegate
to
i
to
Ket
bigger
yearly.
BRANDON
O
-A
smoke-filled
the
BC.
Fish
.and
Game
Coun-1
This
year
they
reflect
the
cab-1
basement
claimed
tlie
life
of
a
.ii
tJ,x
.,iH,,r
miii,n
nie
.
!
met
s
deci.sion
tliutit
will
takc
prgndon
fireman
Monday
as
here
Wednesday.
No."
said
Mr
Sinclair
when
S4
400,000.000
to
run
the
affairs
of
flumes
gutted
one
of
the
city's
ght
For
ge
Talks
the
country
during
the
llscai
major
business
blocks.
asked
If
he
would
be
a
candidate
j
for
leadership.
"My
field
is
not
provincial
politics.
i
lures,
"Vulley
of
the
Ijikelse"
and
"Northern
Tacklebusters,"
will
be
shown.
Meeting
begins
at
8
pm.
at
the
Moose
Hall.
began
the
first
of
veur
which
this
month
-
"I
am
happy
In
the
federal
C.
Frederick
J.
Brown,
58,
veteran
of
the
brigade,
entered
the
building
shortly
after
the
blaze
was
discovered
and
was
apparently
overcome
by
smoke,
police
said.
Preliminary
estimates
placed
Relations
Bonrd
""d
m
to
settle
the
tT
At
Washington.
President
Eisenhower
said
today
that
even
if
peace
comes
In
Korea
"our
men
and
those
of
our
allies
will
have
to
stay
in
that
region
quite
a
while."
Eisenhower
made
the
statement
in
a
brief
informal
talk
at
the
annual
meeting
of
the
United
Defence
Fund,
Inc.
His
suggestion
that
peace
seems
a
possibility
came
atop
an
earlier
White
House
description
of
the
United
Nations-Communist
agreement
on
re-patrlaUon
of
sick
and
wounded
prisoners
as
"encouraging."
The
President
added
at
the
meeting
that
the
post-armistice
period
would
be
a
"trying
damage
to
the
building
owned
by
'the
Olympia
Candy
Company
at
by
A.
R.
Leach
and
a
finance
committee
headed
by
R.
H.
Dua-lop
were
appointed.
The
club
will
now
make
application
for
a
charter.
The
club's
intention
Is
to
hin
an
Instructor
and
aircraft
engineer
for
Initial
training
purposes.
T.
J.
Collison
and
G.
L
Williams
may
take
refresh?;
courses
jto
serve
as
Instructs
and
engineer
respectively
In
Uv
future.
Purchase
of
two
training
aircraft
will
be
made
as.
soon
a
possible.
$250,000.
i
'
eruurninn
of
a
'b"m
Ui
setup
the
"
here
b,
tw,.,
n
the
15
Union
and
the
'JN
the
now
part-'"
Hin
its
sitting
"'"ellmtoM
appoint.
7
Klllot
tor
the
Sent
m,.i
BRIG.
J.
V.
ALLARD
left
Vancouver
by
air
for
Tokyo
Sunday
to
take
over
command
of
the
Canadian
25th
Infantry
Brigade
In
Korea.
Brig.
Allard,
replacing
Brig.
M.
P.
(Pat)
Boaer,
was
scheduled
to
arrive
In
Tokyo.
He
will
inspect
the
brigade
re-lnforcement
centres
In
Japan
before
going
to
the
Korean
battlefront.
field,
not
that
I
am
uninterested
In
the
provincial
field."
Mr.
Sinclair
represents
Coast-Capllano
riding
in
parliament.
Arthur
Lalng,
another
Federal
MP
whose
name
has
been
prominently
mentioned
as
a
possible
provincial
leader
has
been
silent.
The
member
of
parliament
for
Vancouver
South,
frequently
mentioned
as
a
candidate
for
the
B.C.
liberal
leadership,
returned
from
Ottawa
last
Saturday.
But
he
declined
to
say
whether
he
would
stand
for
the
post.
TV,,
iivh
ior
have
bppn
un.
Rail
Workers
Wages
Cut
'
WASHINGTON
ff
Falling
retail
prices
clipped
three
cents
an
hour
from
the
pay
cheques
of
1.300.000
rail
workers.
The
government
announced
on
February
15
its
old
style
consum
x
-iTnto
-mm;
-m;''
.
P
i-a
m,.
Vigil
For
Son
Reported
Lost
During
War
Proves
Fruitless
''eci
their
chalr-
'p-
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wve
ap-
Wisharl.
presl-;
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We.siminst.pr
Fliihter,'
Un-Pnl
ttleir
brief
nl
3-
r'ty
enniptroller.
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rlt5,'
brief.
W-Per-cent
;.
,
,s-.
i-v--
y
-
J
er
price
Index
stood
at
188.8
per
cent
of
the
1935-1939
average,
uugnt
by
the
VJ
f
(
t
l'H
i
rfi
-
.
-
f
Si
a
iu
.
j,
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h'"
followed
Swedish
Ship
Captain
Jailed
CANAKKALE.
Turkey
B
A
Swedish
ship
captain
has
een
Jailed
on
charges
of
"at
least
partial"
responsibility
in
connection
with
the
sinking
of
the
Turkish
submarine
Dunilupinar
which
went
down
with
the
loss
of
99
lives
after
a
collision
Saturday
in
Uie
Dardenelles.
The
captain
Is
Oscar
Lorentzon,
skipper
of
the
Swedish
steamer
Haboland,
which
collided
with
the
Dunilupinar,
a
pollcv
enough
of
a
drop
In
the
cost
of
living
from
last
November
to
assure
a
three-cent
hourly
wage
reduction.
Rail
wages
arc
adjusted
each
three
months
to
correspond
to
the
rising
or
falling
of
living
costs.
The
three
cent
pay
cut
means
a
payroll
saving
for
carriers
estimated
at
$7,500,000
a
month-Rail
wages
averaged
around
$1.90
an
hour
before
the
he
saw
his
lost
son
Fit.
Sgt.
Wilfred
Sutherland,
reported
missing,
presumed
dead,
when
his
Stirling
bomber
was
shot
down
over
the
Netherlands
in
1943.
"He
was
only
six
feet
away,"
the
faliutr
Mid.
"II
looked
at
me
but
clearly
did
not
recognize
me
and
hurried
off
towards
the
ticket
office.
I
was
so
startled
I
could
not
move.
And
when
I
went
after
him
he
had
gone."
In
the
hope
that
his
on
will
return
to
tills
spot,
Sutherland
comes
over
every
year
from
Canada
for
a
month's
stay
and
spends
hours
at
the
station.-
"I
know
my
son
Is
alive."
he
said.
"I
think
he
Is
suffcrtns
from
loss
of
memory.
But
one
day
I
know
I'll
find
him.
Hs-would
be
35
now.
"I'll
come
back:
next
y.;
and
the
year
after
tin'
,
,
.
IU
never
give
no"
LONDON
(Reuters)
A
70-ycar-old
Canadiun
stood
under
the
clock
at
King's
Cross
station
on
Easter
Sunday
for
several
hours.
v
As
darkness
fell,
he
took
one,
last
look
around,
then
walked
sadly
away.
Grey-haired
John
Sutherland,
a
cement
manufacturer
from
Vancouver,
has
done
this
every
Easter
for
five
years.
For
on
Easter
Sunday,
1948,
at
2:15
p.m.,
standing
on
this
same
spot,
Sutherland
believes
Zl
01
!'.'r
"Krec-
ivic
u.'
!
Wea-
those
orkerf
('''s
the
the
,lrpmen
FISHERMEN
IN
NOVA
SCOTIA'S
Halifax
county
are
awaiting
the
opening
of
the
lobster
season.
This
Is
a
typical
coastal
scene
fish
house.
A
spring
surf
breaks
with
lobster
traps
alongside
a
over
a
rooky
shore
'""-mem
on
one