OKMtb DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER V 1 C X Z V CABS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 J HI I) HsPH VOL. XLI. No. 48 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, February 23, 1952 TEN CENTS (ir.oluding comic section i CONSERVATIVES JOIN LIBERALS AND DEFEAT WITH CCF OF CONFIDENCE Heavy Title Bout June 18 MIAMI, Florid (P Promoter Herman Taylor of Philadelphia said Friday night that tentative arrangements had been made for the champion, Jersey Jo Walcott, and Ezzard . Charles to meet for the heavyweight title in Philadelphia , Municipal Stadium about June ; 18. Smithers Man Injured; Truck-Train Collide "-'" c . i j . I' V x . I ' ) " FA V ... , . j-w. ' -r ' ; . . - - I ' . -' '' , : ; Montreal Ksdtldpping f '- ' - . '' XT i MONTREAL (T A lone kidnapper stole three-year -old Bar-1 bara Nmeroff from her home j Friday night and left a note with ! a hysterical maid demanding de- i nveiy of $50,000 ransom today to the shoe department of a Montreal department store. The ; child was recovered unharmed , by police today. They found her on the street with a man wno was arrested. ! The child's parents, Mr. and j Mrs. Moe Nemeroff, were away j from home when the man anter- i ed their home. Officers began a search for the ; child and her abductor. Barbara is an only child. Nemeroff is president of the i Paramount Leather Co. here. ! ' ; I J - "mi in m i 1 - r wwrwi' MtmnfH ttn".m Vwfc& w awMW mhhm J ! u BY i AMILY - Rt Hon. Vincent Ma ;k , Canada s governor -ucnwal designate. Is lib sun and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Massey, on his arrival at Tren-:rnni Em-land, Sunday. Press reports say M.s, Ma.ss"y may be official hostess for her hnn lie niovos into R'.deau II ul a". Ottawa. .I'A' WA M Interior Mill Operator Hurt j TELKWA. -- Oeorge Sharpe, lumber mill operator In the Driftwood district atxut 13 railes north of here, was seriously injured when struck on the head by a plank which it is presumed i flew off the saw. Sharpe was immediately taken to Smithers Hospital where an operation ! was performed. Predicts Big Liberal Win ! VICTORIA. Tom King, vet- cran Liberal member for Golden, i predicted in the Legislature : yesterday that there would tw 36 Liberal members after the coining election with six Progressive Conservatives and six CCF. Liberal members cheered loudly. Archbishop Sees Queen LONDON There is no official confirmation about the corona- : tion of Queen Elizabeth being held August .7 although the Archbishop of Canterbury, who would lead the rites, met the Queen wilh thi Privy Council yesterday. -Manitoba Keeps-Margarine Ban WINNIPEG Manitoba Legislature yesterday voted down a move to remove the ban on colored margarine. The vote was 32 to 22 across party lines. Eleven Liberals, seven CCF and four Conservatives voted for lifting the ban. The arrested man was not one was absent voted with Identified but It is believed he24 Liberals. Tom Uphill I Labor, had worked for the child's father, i Fernie), W. A. C. Bennett Und, j South Okanaganl and Mrs. , KLMSLEY SCHOLAR Grant Roberts, 29-year-old reporter on the Toronto Olobe and Mall, has been awarded the sixth Kemsley scholarship in Journalism. He will spend a year in Britain gaining experience in the various offices f Kemsley newspapers. Object of the annual scholarship, also given in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, is to encourage an exchange of ideas and experience among Journalists and to strengthen Commonwealth ties. Mr. Roberts, born in Montreal and a graduate of McGill University, is a son of Leslie Roberts, well-known writer. (CP Photoi CNR Going Into ' Trucking Business ! MONTREAL Canadian Na- i tional Railways is thinking of going into the trucking business! on a large scale, according to reports here. "At present," fallwaymen" say, ; trucks are taking the cream of ; the freight business leaving the ; railways with the more unprofitable hauls. Canadian Pacific Railway ls already in the trucking business on a large scale. -TIDES- ' Sunday, February 24 High 0:48 20 2 feet i Island Has i Third Quake VICTORIA (CP) The third earthquake in as many days j awakened residents and rattled glassware in this Vancouver Is- land city early Friday. It was sharper and of longer duration than the tremors lelt Wednes- ternoon. There were no reports of damage. It lasted about half a minute, 1 Arrested at Edmonton in Hazeiton Case A Hazeiton miner has been arrested In Edmonton and will be returned to stand trial on a charge of theft and conversion of a check last December, RCMP divisional headquarters here said today. Accused is George Wilson, 40, Ami-tJ VOTE Of Amendments Calls Grits and Tories "Political Prostitutes" VICTORIA (CP) The Progressive Conservative opposition and Liberals yesterudy vestprdav combined tomuinta in in th; ui- British Columbia Legislature to defeat the CCI-! want-of -confidence m o - .ition in the Liberal gov ernment by a vote of 31 'to 11. Terl Progressive Conservative"! Tilly Rolston (Ind., Vancouver-Point Grey) voted with the eight CCF members, CCF Leader Harold Winch moved a want-of -confidence motion because the government said it will not deal with Inquiry board reports Into hospital in- surance and labor acts, " 8Vk7 "I J . . . Rupert Haggen iCCF, Grand F'orks-Greenwood). Herbert Anscomb, Progressive Conservative leader, said his party had no confidence in the government but It was against introducing legislation on hospital insurance and labor acts. Therefore, his party was forced to vote against the CCF motion, j In a 90-minute speech during ; which he referred to the Llb-i erah and Progressive Conserve -! tlves as "political prostitutes," : Mr. Winch said the government either did not have the courage 1 to accept recommendations in the reports or intended to use I them for political campaign ! promises. The government had a majority and a constitutional right to deal with these "vital issues" despite the break-up d the Liberal and Progressive Conservative coalition last month. Winch said Premier Johnson had stated the government had no mandate to carry on with i major legislation "in order to evade the government's responsibility." GROSS BETRAYAL "Thi is a gross betrayal of the people of British Columbia," said Winch. "The Liberals have not got the Intestinal fortitude to face up to the problems of the government administration." Mr. Winch said his party is opposed to the use of transfer- i able votes In the next election. "It is a procedure." he said, 'unknown in the democratic world, and an act of which Hitler or Mussolini would be proud There were thousands of spoiled ballots under the old system, hardly anybody will understand the new." Mr. Winch said ho understood that, during coalition, the Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties received $1 for campaign funds from every barrel of beer sold, in return for issuing 1 oi hotel licences. Premier Johnson jumped up to !ja. "as leader of the Liberal ! Dartv. I know absolutely nothlna about what he's talking." Fifteen Dead In Jet Crash PUSAN, Korea if Fifteen persons were killed and twenty In-juied when a F-84 Thunderblrd Jet crashed into a power plant, then careened Into a hospital and four houses Friday. Scene of the crash was at Sad-ukni, about twelve miles northwest of this southeast Korean port. An American pilot and fourteen Korean civilians were killed. j One estimate placed the pro-1 perty damage at $100,000. ; i who is alleged to have taken 22.5 feetan endorsed check of $90.67 for 5.1 feet a fellow miner to cash, then left ! Mr. and Mrs. Carl Strand left: 12:41 ; on today's plane for a trip to Low 6:37 Vnnersiivnr iQ-no i n fna, 1 tiirh tha mnov I SMITHERS. Max Buddress of this town met with a harrowing i accident when the three-ton : truck he was driving collided i with the westbound passenger train at Evelyn. He suffered scv-! oral injuries and shock and was : taken to hospital. Mrs. Bud-' dress was a teacher at Morice- town and both were well known. She was not, a passenger in the truck at the time. Approval of Defence Plan LISBON (CP) The North At-( lantic Council today unanimous-i ly approved the master economic program for the three year de-. tensive build-up against communism. Not one of the 14 At- lantic allies raised objections. Negotiations With Egypt EA1KO CP) The PriniB Minister.. Aly M.iher Pasha, told reporters today negotiations with Britain are expected lo start In Cairo next week to settle tiic Jong dispute over control of Suez Canal and the Sudan. ' Today's Stocks 4 Miirle- s. I. JtiliMloii' Lid.) ' VANCOUVER American Standard .27 Bralorne 6.00 E R X 04. Cariboo Quartz 1 20 Congress Cronln Bablne 46 Giunt Mascot ' Indian Mines . Pioneer 2.25 Premier Border .33 Privateer Reeves MacDonald 6 00 Reno Sheep Creek 1 65 Filbak rrcmier Taku River Vananda 20',, Salmon Oold Spud Valley Silver Standard 2.48 WesUrn Uranium .. Canadian 9 00 A P Con Calmont Central Lcduc. Home Oil Mercury Okalla Royal Canadian Royalltc TORONTO Al.hona Aumaquc 22 Bevcourt Buffalo Canadian Consul. Smelters 39.00 Conwest 3.65 Donalda 45 Eldona 24 East Sullivan 8.85 Giant Ycllowknife 11.00 God s Lake 37 Hardrock 13 Marricana 12' a Hcva .12 Jollet Quebec 47 Little Long Lac 67 Ljnx 12 Mads'on Red Lake 1.92 McKenzle Red Lake 40 McLeod Cockshutt 2.78 Moncta 36 Negus 60 'i Norartda 80.50 Louvlcourt , 30 Pickle Crow 1.56 San Antonio 2.50 Senator Rouyn 18 Sherrit Gordon . 4.15 Steep Rock 7.50 Silver Miller 1.59 Upper Canada 1 62 Golden Manltou 6.60 ' j '"' ' - - -' - . s.. t S"ri (CP PHOTO i Civil Service j I Kuies upposed By UK Unions LONDON ( Indignant pro-: tests have been expressed by j British trade union officials over; the novcrntiient s decision to ex-1 lend the civil service retirement ,i';. ati the same time that drai-' tic staff cuts are being imposed as part or the government's won-; omy program. j The criticism dev. doped after several thousand employees had received their notices and, R. A." Bultci, eliiinccllor of the Ex- Hit quer, had announced that the minimum ag. for leaving the service henceforth would be 00 years. In future, the chancellor said.1 the general aim will be lo em- ' pljy all civil servants for as long as pi amicable. Retirement will l? between 60 and 65 either at ! Hie request of the Individual or tin departmental hentl. Tests of, cili'deney will be applied as ern-p oyec-f; approach the 00-year nip.ik. mid at regular infrvals 'thereafter if they continue- to work Those who fail to reach acceptable standards will be re-; tired hut no stigiiia''will be attached to their departure. mri: kksi.swiknt L. C. White, g.'ticial scerelary 1 (lie Civ 1 Service Association, deplored the chancellor's deel- Mon. "It will make a bad promotion situat ion worse and will be deeply lesented." Ho bcl. ved the government was pursuing a con- liadictory policy by retaining certain employees for a further live years at. a lime when It was discharging younger help. Similar v..-s were voiced by T. R. Jones, scerelary of the Civil Service National Council. Ihe govei nmcnt's timing, he f aid. had been bad. especially alter its rejection of a proposal 10 continue in a lower grado those retained Biter 00. "Hi's would have maintained to some rxIctiC' he added, "the flow ol promotion which' Is par-ticu any important In higher posts where the notional interest inquires Uic maximum degree of competence." Plane Safe In Emergency COMOX (CP) A Queen Charlotte Airlines flying boat, with 18 aboard. Its aerolons jammed and wing tip missing, made an emergency landing at this Van- couvcr Island village Friday Pilot Bill Peters brought the big plane in for a smooth landing as police fire and inhalator crews stood by. The plane was on a regular flight to Sullivan Bay, 200 miles northwest of Vancouver, when a wave ripped off the wing tip float. Peters quickly gunned the en- uine and pulled for the air making for calm Coinox harbor, j ng Boiler by Rail Task - The laieest ship-kiiul rvrr to have ! through this port any oilier in Am-rt Knilay by C'lin-ikiI Kailways for in' 'I'iiU'd ftmr ioilcr c tln.n Ml lei'l 111 the .,li-incnt f. four I'Ui Nalmiial s spec- KltU wll typc"T (1 In bi' .-j-nt her''. :t. wliii h on h nor- (I fiat, cur would than IS liTt abuvr raiisi' lunsidi'iMliU a tivt-1 In ,iU bridge ii'.iiii i H. ran be .set tlun a nut above I Uiftrr less than 13 id nsiiiilums will uiiiirird lor tlic ! :-!wi ial shipment mind nirvi's and "mi! of 'i'j miles Jier 'li.il'lllway mils. 1iu li arrived v 'loin l:n';lall(l in 'ii'-r A 1 1 1 1 1 1 u . will 1 lull sieil lioiler. in. in any yet 1" "inn plant. ;'' a I'mird eslnli-110 CiiMili.ui Na-"'""ii:it .snnilir ""I' d Iiem Collinu-ll .uiit Jnlm. It trk by raii-umler the direction ""'is. Mom tun in . il lo.lllini;. ( inn ""nV 'Hds mi that ''h,sl "i" la me area dance. son Buys -Herald f Hi . i (,. vl,,.. , ini, d. Vancimver's 'i'di'T. Was lieimir-,rf"y 'I Thompn, u,(' Thome,,,,, r.n h"'li publislirs pei's in fastern and ida. lent, "Plica ring win editions, taid ilroi "id manner. '"simper would ' SKleiu executive. ' and then would be PTsinine or politl- ';is mnrle f,. r Sln Miich h.,i nleres, in ne PaP ja See jycl on Weuthe '' Is uioder- tod: lf but a fine aured for th BIUSI,, A 'i'l'Be crowd IfLW i. "1 I i & -i I GOING TO PARIS Oronp Capt, Keith Ilodsifn." 30, na's" bren posted to Pa: is to take charee of RCAF nrraiiKements' lo. the air division to be located rm the continent. To be station.'ri at the Canadian Em-bjSiJr, Group Capt Hudson will assist Die Canadian Ambassador to France in negotiations lor the required air bases. He Is a native of Jersey in the Channel Islands. iCP from National Defence) -WEATHER- S nopsis All T ..oils cxi'i pi tiie'noi Ihe cost ol HrilLsh Columbia will enjoy another .sunny (lay. Haoi Ls tailing over the Queen Cliai-lottes and the northern maiiv laml ahead ol anoHier disturb ance developing In the Ouil of Alaska. Gale warning have been Issued lor those waters .id jau nt !) the Q.e.Tii Ciiarlott' and northern Vancouver l.sla.i but it appeals unlikely that Uw -ioim will have any ureal eiicc. on the southern coast.- (.Al l! WAIIMNf! N.irth coast region Gale warning Usucd. oveicast wilh rain today. Cloudy with a le' .showers Sunday. Little eliamjT in temperature , Winds sotith'-cast 1 20 1, increasing lo southeast illii during the allernoo.i, subsiding overnight. Low tu-niaht and highs Sunday at Port Hardy, Sandsplt and Prince Itu-pert, 35 and 40. Bookmaker Attacked VANCOUVER (CP)- .A few hours after he te.stilied in a booknuk i Ing conspiracy trial here. A! rorshaw, a wealthy. scU-adnnt-tcd bookmaker was attacked by Iwo gun-wielding thugs. He was Jobbed of $300. Police 'said For.shaw was gun whipped by two men who boat i ! "toJ-Z"- X Cr- W i 1 L'blJ liil 3 - i L. U i , , .V- '.". '"" ' ..:-.'::'.:.'.;-.-': :,:-,''..- "'- I ' I . .. . -; ... - -' . ' ;..--"; , ; t-;i"j . i -1 1 : ' ' , . I ' --'i8il s- . : . ; . ' , .. . , waiit: ' ' t ' ' I .' ' '.!. ---wmig , him about the head. He was not however, seriously injured. The attack occurred outside his suburban home In West Vancouver. Forshaw, called as a key witness In the bookmakers' trial in which 26 arc charged with conspiracy, testified for the crown; telling the assize court Jury of his connections with bookmaking in Vancouver from 1944 until 1047 when he "quit the racket." BltKAKIMi TRAIL through o foot of powder mow on Mt. Hays on a Sunday morning is a great experience. ' Allan Fredheun ls the skier ivlm skips to tnke in the view as bright sunlight pierces through the trees, '