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1954
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2
'
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
JANUARY
4,
1954
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
toty
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Sea
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'ft
Coast
Guard
Steeps
All
Night
Watch
tiy
The
Associated
Press
LONDON.
Western
'Europe's
dykes
and
sea
walls,
acre-old
bastions
against
the
raging
oceans,
ft'
3ft
'.;
stood
strong
and
firm
today
after
24
hours
of
battering
by
gale-churned
seas.
Anxious
watchers,
when
flood
waters
burst
V
Wreck
Takes
through
the
dykes
and
wrecked
vast
areas
of
the
Low
Countries
V-
iand
eastern
England
last
Feb-i
l
uary,
sighed
with
relief
as
they
I
watched
the
seas
die
down
to
115
Lives
J
dav.
'
V
(
:
jn
Ftigland,
police
and
coasSr;
i
eaard
kept.
n
all-night
vigil
in
!
In
India
By
The
Associated
Press
Plane
Crashes
at
Airport
NEW
DELHI.
At
luw,-coastal
areas,
then
left
tfiei
watch
at
10
a.m.
after
the
crUU
hour
of
high
tide
had
passed.
In
the
Netherlands,
wheie
overnight
water
levels
were
the
highest
since
last
winter's
floods
in
which
1,795
persons
died,
the
situation
was
reported
nearly
normal.
HEAVY
SNOWS
fty
ONE
PI
ItsONS
aboard
this
RCAF
North
Star
domestic
The
plane
was
bound
for
Edmonton
from
Vancouver
when
it
.
',
...
i
..,
-
.ovir
iniiirv
whonlth
wns
forced
to
turn
back
after
45
minutes
because
of
engine
r
ns-Canacia
pltine
escaped
aeain
or
severe
mjui
trouble.
least
15
persons
were
killed
and
more
than
40
injured
in
the
derailment
ur-cngine
plane
crashed
at
Vancouver
international
Airpori.
Two
Toronto
University
Boys
at
dawn
today
of
a
speeding
passenger
train
near
J
02
Inches
Of
Rain
Fell
During
'53
Detained
by
U.S.
Immigration
But
the
storm
which
smashed
the
calm
of
Europc'3
winter
with
sudden
force
Sunday
still
raged
in
many
places.
Blizzards
and
heavy
snowfalls
were
reported
from
Scandinavia
to
i
Italy.
TRAMPED
OCT
IN
THE
SNOW
of
a
northern
Manitoba
lake,
this
message
told
searchers
In
an
RCAF
plane
the
stery
ol
four
persons,
marooned
In
a
snowbound
plane
for
six
days.
Pilot
Paul
Rickey
of
Winnipeg
was
carrying
an
Indian
mother
and
her
two
children
on
a
plane
when
he
became
lost
and
landed
near
the
edge
of
a
lake.
The
woman
gave
birth
to
a
child
the
day
after
the
landing,
but
the
infant
died
before
rescuers
came.
IvEST
PALM
BEACH,
Fla.
(CP)
wo
University
of
Toronto
Bhatinda,
150
miles
northwest
of
New
Delhi.
The
nationalized
Indian
Railways
said
15
bodies
were
removed
up
to
noon,
seven
hours
after
the
wrecjs
occurred.
Of
the
40
Injured,
at
least
10
were
severely
hurt.
Prince
Rupert
managed
to
at
In
Denmark,
the
little
Jutland
town
of
Randers
was
flooded
United
Stales
pending
a
hear-1
home
from
a
New
Year's
honing.
I
day
in
Nassau,
the
Bahamas..
Edward
S.
Rogers,
20,
and
They
said
Uiey
were
detained
William
M.
Boultbee.
21.
both
of
,
after
they
refused
to
.sign
under
Toronto,
were
slopped
from
en-
oath
a
statement
they
were
not
tering
the
U
S
on
their
way
j
allowed
to
read.
An
immigration
official
told
them
they
are
sus-
during
the
night
by
the
worst
jlidents.
ooin
innnm-u
ui
hu-Vi
ing
ProBiTssive
Conservative
C,b
at
the
university,
have
fi
n
refused
admission
to
the
gale
in
several
years.
tract
8
feet
9
inches
of
rain
during
the
past
year,
a
check
of
1953
weather
statistics
shows.
The
105.38
Inches
of
liquid
sunshine
is
the
third
worst
rainlull
;In
Odense,
salvage
workers
B.
C
Airman
Aboard
Plane
Dovn
in
Arctic
Wilderness
The
train,
cn
route
from
toiled
with
sandbags
to
patch
up
dykes
protecting
the
town
spected
of
having
Communist
sympathies.
Bhatinda
to
New
Delhi,
left
the
in
the
last
15
years.
from
a
nearby
canal,
which
track
while
crossing
a
canal
Only
in
1939
when
118.94
HOSPITAL
MA
Y
BE
OPENED
FOX
RETIRED
RAILWA
YMEN
VANCOUVER
(CP
Plans
have
been
laid
to
open
a
hospital
WINNIPEG
(CP)
Three
,
fliers
that
-ho
wa
not
certain
of
bis
forced
down
on
an
Arctic
mercy
position.:
He
said
h
would
land
bridge.
.
.
t.
The
Bhatinda
wreck
was
Vie
most
serious
In
a
series
of
rail-
'
The
youths
are
scheduled
to
appear
touiurrow
before
a
U
S.
Immigration
board.
They
were
held
Incommudi-cado
for
nearly
three,
hours
Saturday
at
Palm
Beach
international
airport
while
they
wa?
Ps
in
during
!
lUftt
J?;
1
llTZl
the
New
Year's
period.
OI
Li
1C
wiiueuicao
tvuajr,
w
own
-
......
-
as
fuel
can
be
flown
in
for
their
,
located
by
search
aircraft.
Or
ehrcinicully-ill
cases
among
B.C.
s
more
than
J.uou
reuren
inehe.
fel
and
in
.
1947
when
Wfeawneq
,io
Dursfe
ua-oanKs.
103.32
inches
came
down
was!
ANOTHER
STORM
the
city
any
damper.
Decern-
j
Meaning"
sUU
another
storm
bcr's
total
precipitation
durmp;
niay
strlke
tne
Brilish
Colum-23
days
of
13.32
inches
helped
jma
coast
ot
tomorrow,
bring
this
about.
The
weather
office
reported
this
The
city
has
also
gone
short
j
moming
that
a
storm
1,000
cn
sunshine,
with
the
sun
only
j
miies
out
in
the
Pacific
is
headlining
5.8
hours
during
lasting
this
way.
month.
The
year's
total
comes
(
au
lower
coast
points
were
Norseman
aircraft.
made
up
their
minds
about
signing
the
statement."
Later
they'
were
released
on
bail
of
$1,000
to
Mitckey
Airlines
railwaymen.
the
Canadian
Pacific
Pioneers
Association
an-:iouneed
here
ciut'ng
the
week-end.
Association
president
A.
Sturrork
said
a
committee
has
neen
formed
to
develop
plans
and
includes
representatives
of
the
B.C.
Electric
Co.,
CPR
and
CNR.
Mr.
Sturrock
said
the
association
is
considering
taking
over
Pentlcton
Hospital,
idle
.it
the
moment.
Teachers
Threaten
To
Strike
Eight
persons
were
killed
and
six
Injured
near
Raxaul
on
the
Nepal-Indian
border
when
passenger
and
freight
trains
collided.
Earlier
a
number
of
railway
workers
were
hurt
In
the
collision
of
passenger
and
freight
trains
near
-
Howrah
station,
Calcutta.
to
a
miserable
744.8
hours,
tne
hard
hit.
bv
a
week-end
storm
Ind.
until
the
hearing.
Tiie
air-
line
flew
them
to
Palm
Beach'
Smallest
since
before
1938.
jthat
caused
power
blackouts
In
satnrriav
from
Nassau.
I
December's
mean
temperature
i
seVeral
mainland
centres
and
Thev
nrleinaiiv
Dlanned
to
flv
was
401
de8rees
with
8
hl8h
rjleft
a
rash
of
damage.
.
Xt'tJSt"
-ri,23
H
?
Vancouver,
one
inch
'4
"
t
,
of
(CP)
JASPER
PLACE.
Alta.
Since
Saturday
the
RCAF
crew
members
have
been
huddling
in
weather
as
cold
as
50
below
on
a
frozen
lake
30
miles
short
of
their
destination,
the
Northwest
Territories
outpost
of
Baker
Lake.
In
darkness
Sunday
they
fired
a
flare
which
was
spotted
by
an
RCAF
Dakota
flown
In
from
Namao,
near
Edmonton.
Later,
they
made
radio
contact
with
another
Dakota,
telling
the
pilot
their
only
need
was
for
more
fuel.
Pilot
of
the
Norseman
Is
EO.
O.
J.
Fisher
of
Duparquet,
Que.,
and
the
other
crew
members
school
on
Seventy-seven
public
,iri
tr,n
ih.re
.,
Tnrnntn.
,uw
r.uniau
pounoeu
nie
uhj
at
Lytton
five
I
In
their
hotel
room
Sunday
I
Highest
temperature
for
1953
'
Sunday,
while
Eisenhower
Reports
Tonight
On
First
Year
in
Office
heaviest
of
the
niht
thrv
said
thev
intend
to
was
75
aegrees
on
May
ana
i
incnes
oi
snow,
season,
blanketed
the
city
ana
I
study
and
rest
until
they
go
25
a""
the
mercury
hit
a
low
i
before
the
immigration
board.
I
of
three
degrees
above
zero
last
Interview
Shrouded
In
Secrecy
Daboll,
an
immigra-
.VAKinwsrriM
m
Prai.iri.nt
'
lotjr
this
week.
!
Louis
F,
Most
rain
fell
during
October
.
.
.......
i
rflfcr
'
rcfused
to
discuss
teachers
prepared
to
strike
today
in
this
suburban
Edmonton
town
of
12,000
population.
It
would
be
the
first
strike
A
Alberta
teachers
In
13
years
and
the
fourth
In
the
province's
history.
Some
2300
students
in
six
schools
ware
affected
when
the
Jasper
Place
local
of
the
AU
berta
Teachers
Association
ami
the
town
school
board
were
un?.
,
enhower
tonight
gives
the:
But
belore
tnai.,
me
presmenv
-,-,v,
when
it
rained
for
27
davs
MONTREAL
(CP)
Security
regulations
today
shrouded
a
d.
pPrhaV
Phtnerd
S
SWith
SUnSh'ne
"not
convinced
beyond
a
rea
f
of
ihnrnram
he
will
lav
lican
leaders
of
Congress.
rlpUaUon
nrxt
ls
M
foll0ws:
i
Lac.
O.
M.
Dawe
of
Vernon,
B
C,
and
Lac.
J.
W.
Bradley
of
Stur
district.
'
No
serious
damage
was
reported
in
the
Prince
Rupert
erea
although
high
winds
pounded
the
harbor
entrance
for
some
hours
early
this
morning,
threatening
to
force
fishing
boats
from
their
moorings.
A
gale
warning
remains
in
effect
in
the
northern
sector.
Otherwise,
the
weatherman
says
it
will
be
cloudy,
with
showers
of
rain,
occasionally
mixed
with
snow,
today
and
.,
-
unnnl)
P
flfllllll.
'
mill
LlirV
SI1UU1U
o
n
i
n
on
I
1
...
geon
Falls,
Ont.
.-.'..v.
"
-
,
i
jiinn;4i
v
.u.fl
iifiui.t.
j
.i
iiii;iif."
ttiore
Congress
when
It
meets:
Tomorrow
selected
-congrtj-
.
be
admitted.
A
ski.equipped
Otter
aircraft
able
to
atrree
on
the
date
a
secret
interview
between
two
United
States
senators
and
the
man
who
exposed
a
Red
spy
ring
In
1945.
It
was
believed
the
meeting
took
place
in
or
near
Montreal
between
Senators
William
Jen-
February.
34.9.
8tf;
March,
46.-.
11
81:
April,
140.3.
3.88:
Mai-110.1,
4.57;
June,
62.8,
3.15;
July,
89.4.
4.09;
August
104.2,
3.85.
YOUTH
REMANDED
dbor
Leaders
piloted
by
Flt.-Lt.
C.
W.
(Bounce)
j
government
arbitration
board
Weir
of
Dauphin,
Man.,
was
aw8rd
snould
go
Into
effect.
...
)
scheduled
to
take
off
today
from
Tne
award
last
November
Churchill,
Man.,
with
fuel
for
.
stipulated
an
Increase
in
the
Grant
Ronson
was
remanded
Sentember,
63.2,
8.87;
October,
sional
leaders
will
be
given
a
preview
of
those
sections
of
the
I
State
of
the
Union
message!
rieallng
with
foreign
affairs,
na-1
tlonal
defence
and
possibly
other
;
matters.
I
The
president
returned
to
i
Washington
Sunday
from
Au-:
gusta,
Da.,
where
he
and
Mrs.
eek
Better
Tuesday.
Little
change
in
tem
ner,
RepubUcan
chairman,
and
the
Norseman.
CONTNUE
MISSION
for
eight
days
when
he
appeared
,
34.6,
20.66;
November.
21.5,
15.66;
before
Magistrate
Vance
on
a
December,
5.6.
13.32.
To
these
charge
of
breaking
and
entering
.amounts
is
added
32.3
Inches
of
and
theft.
Ronson
was
arrested
snow
which
fell
during
January,
Pat
McCarran,
former
Democrat
annual
basic
salary
v
to
$2,000
from
$1,800,
effective
Sept.
1,
1953,
and
was
accepted
by
Uie
"
'
teachers.
It
is
a
four-hour
flight.
If
all
1
egisbtion
goes
according
to
schedule,
both
i
perature.
.
Winds
southwesterly
40,
decreasing
to
30
by
tonight.
Low
tonight
and
high
Tues
day
at
Sandspit
and
Prince
Rupert,
33
and
38.
chairman
of
the
U.S.
Senate
sub-committee
on
Internal
security
and
Igor
Gouzenko.
planes
will
fly
to
Baker
Lake.i
But
the
school
board
origin-
New
Year's
Day
in
the
home
of
February
and
March
giving
a
Harrv
Knelson.
941
Third
Avenue
precipitation
of
3.23
Inches
to
VANCOUVER
(CP)
British
1
Eisenhower
had
been
since
lumbia
labor
leaders
in
New
Christmas
Day.
West.
i
add
to
the
102.15
inches
of
rain
ir
messages,
called
on
the
,
Besides
the
State
of
the
union
"
ial
Credit
government
to
In-
message,
these
Include
the
fed-
I
.
"
'
'
.
-.r.-Jw"wwnr
PT
i
.
--
.U'Uff'U'ljff
H'Ti
'in
T
'(luce
better
labor
legislation,
eral
budgtt.
to
be
submitted
The
senators
arrived
early
Sunday
from
Washington
and.
following
a
brief
Interview
with
newspaper
men,
were
taken
to
a
hotel
for
a
six-hour
conference.
They
then
set
out
for
an
undisclosed
destination.
It
was
Gouzenko,
former
Rus
where
a
seriously
Hi
Eskimo
is
1
ally
rejected
the
award,
saying
to
be
picked
up
and
flown
to
j
the
increases
would
place
too
Churchill,
400
miles
south
on
;
heavy
a
burden
on
the
town's
Hudson
Bay.
taxpayers.
The
teachers
said
the
Otter
will
carry
the
Eski-:
early
in
December
that
if
the
mo
patient
and
it
Is
expected
,
full
award
were
not
accepted
by
the
Norseman
will
accompany
.
the
board
they
would
not
re-the
Otter
on
the
return
flight.
'turn
to
their
classrooms
after
Details
of
the
Eskimo's
illness;
the
Christmas
and
New
Year's
were
not
known.
holiday.
They
were
unanimous
in
their
about
mid-month,
and
a
message
ticism
of
the
present
Indus-
j
on
the
notional
economy,
al
Conciliation
and
Arbltra-
j
Ajs0
it
waa
announced
at
Au-n
Act
and
at
least
one
sr.ld
;
gUsta
Saturday,
there
will
be
five
e
act
was
hampering
Improved
:
.CDarate
messages
spelling
out
In
law
sian
cipher
clerk
at
Ottawa,
who
brought
the
International
spy
ring
to
light
In
September,
1945,
when
he
lied
the
Soviet
embassy
i
-management
reiuuons
on
detai
Dronosals
lor:
lax
After
leaving
Churchill,
boo
i
The
board
met
Saturday
night
west
coast.
miles
north
of
Winnipeg,
the
1
and
decided
to
grant
the
award
h
.
-
V
,tA
:
The
labor
men
were
also
unan-
revision;
changes
in
the
lait-Hartlcy
Labor
Relations
Act;
a
new
farm
program;
expansion
of
social
security
and
public
health
benefits,
and
a
revised
ous
m
criticism
of
the
part-
and
told
security
officials
of
the
mercy
plane
pilot
radioed
at
3
effective
from
Jan.
1
this
ring's
operations
in
Canada,
p.m.
Saturday
that
the
craft
year.
This
was
not
acceptable
Britain
and
the
United
States.
I
was
running
short
of
fuel
and
to
the
teachers.
"ie
Labor
Relations
Board
and
id
a
full-time
board
was
es-
utial
for
industrial
peace.
All
housing
program.
'
re
concerned
with
the
year-
!
,a
Increase
in
linomnlovment
Junkman's
Hand
Still
Shaking
After
Vice-Regal
Reception
d
said
they
would
press
for
'vcrnment
measures
to
bolster
Car
Burned
On
Highway
'"sumer
purchasing
power.
oy
Jailed
Police
are
Investigating
a
car
fire
on
Highway
16
about
3
a.m.
today
after
the
automobile
belonging
to
Dale
Laird
was
taken
without
his
consent
about
12;
15
or
Assault
KELOWNA
(CP)
A
14-vcur-
I
Kelowna
hov.
rt.nliert
Law-
a.m.
Mr.
Laird
had
parked
his
car
by
Woolworths
on
Third
Avenue
while
he
was
at
a
midnight
nce
Buyer,
plolidc-d
guilty
and
's
sentenced
to
six
months
in
'Killla
llrlsim
ima
t
I'hnl'irp
nf
movie.
The
car
fire
was
reported
-sunlit.,,,
-
guy,"
he
said.
"He
made
me
feel
right
at
home.
I
didn't
know
I
had
such
a
nice
neighbor.
All
my
other
neighbors
are
miserable
because
I
live
among
them,
but
Mr.
Wallace
treated
be
just
dandy.
I
hate
to
leave
the
district."
"I'm
a
neighbor
of
yours,"
he
said
to
the
lieutenant-governor.
"Why
haven't
you
caUed
before?"
Mr.
Wallace
replied.
From
then
on,
members
of
the
Victoria-
social
register
flocked
to
him.
"Mv
hand
Is
sUU
itching."
-he
said.
"It
was
the
happiest
day.
ol
my
life."
I
---"B
a
youiiK
Bin.
1,
,.
.
.vi
HrlmrOln
Mar
junk
on
the
premises.
A
charge
against
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Haigh
of
operating
a
multiple
dwelling
in
a
single
dwelling
area
was
defeated
under
a
wartime
housing
order.
Harry
dressed
In
formal
clothes
Friday
and
drove
his
truck
to
the
lieutenant-governor's
mansion
where
he
Joined
the
New
Year's
Day
receiving
line.
He
went
to
give
his
neighbors
something
to
celebrate
to
tell
them
he
was
selling
out
and
moving
to
the
"other
side
of
the
tracks,"
to
be
nearer
his
work.
"The
gcernor
is
a
swell
VICTORIA
0'
Harry
Halgh,
the
Junkman
who
climbed
government
hill,
has
climbed
back
down.
He
made
the
retreat
Friday
with
all
the
dignity
and
humor
that
marked
his
rise
in
white
tie
and
tails.
Harry
became
a
neighbor
of
Lieutenant-Governor
Clarence
Wallace
In
1952
when
he
paid
a
reported
$11,000
for
the
12-roorn-
mansion
"Piermont,"
200
yards
from
government
house.
He
renamed
the
mansion
"Chlng
Do
Foo
Oc,"
Chinese
for
-garbage
man's
house."
squabbled
with
neighbors
and
building
inspectors
and
appeared
in
eourt
for
keeping
ZZLSF
of
6
Taxi.
Damage
to
t
lJ
a'
so'
r,mm
nded
the
inside
of
the
car
was
exten-
the
Rnstul
Inutitiilo
hw
Msia-
SlVC
'tie
a
n
Mut-cViKii
In
another
accident
Just
after
midnight
a
car
driven
by
Vic
Tll!
Kill
was
found
in
a
semi
ACTRESS
JUNE
ALLY
SON
was
named
"Movie
Mother
of
the
Year"
by
the
Southern
California
Thotographcrs
Association,
whose
president,
Carlyle
Blackwcll,
Said:
"June
AUyson
represents
to
our
members
the
Ideal
mother,
expressing
American
youth,
maternal
warmth,
and
an
understanding
of
children."
Miss
Allyson
in
private
life
is
the
wife
of
film
actor-director
Dick
,
Powell
ai.d
the
mother
of
Pamela,
5.
and.
Richard,
S.
"
iwimm
condition
.
In
Elks
Brain
went
r-ff
the
road
into
a
M1um
a
month
ago.
Her
head
ravir.e
near
Rainbow
Lake.
'"
bdly
crushed
and
she
has
Neither
Mr.
Brain
nor
a
passen-"n
tuken
to
Vancouver
for
a
ger
in
the
car,
Patricia
Miller,
'ji
Hiii
opr-iuMon.
;were
Injured
seriously.