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NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
or
Conoda's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XLII,
No.
141
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PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
JUNE
18.
1953
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
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Riots
Take
Nine
Killed,
16
Hurt
In
Dash
to
Freedom
By
The
Canadian
Press
TOKYO.
About
25,000
militant,
anti-Red
North
Koreans
fled
Allied
prison
camps
today
as
South
Korean
guards,
turned
their
backs
in
open
revolt
against
the
United
Nations
command.
A
few
hours
later
the
UN
:
'
"
16
Lives
r..-'
Armored
Troops
Encircle
Berlin
128
Killed
command
handed
the
Reds
a
letter
at
Panmunjom
reporting
Republic'
of
Korea
guards
had
been
replaced
by
U.S.
troops
and
that
every
effort
is
being
made
to
recapture
24,000
prisoners
5w-A:
5k
r
tiki.
By
The
Canadian
Press
BEKL'IN.
An
uneasy
still
loose.
'SI
quiet
settled
over
embat
t
In
Tokyo
Plane
Crash
tled
East
Berlin
today
as
Lover's
Lane
Falling
A
high
South
Korean
military
authority
said
most
of
the
prisoners
releksed
would
be
enlisted
in
the
South
Korean
army.
President
Syngman
Rhee
ordered
the
prisoners
freed
in
an
unprecedented
move
that
caught
the
half-city
nursed
its
wounds
in
the
wake
of
anti-Communist
riots
that
M
i
m.
MOST
FAMt;i)
LOVERS'
walks
In
Canada,
the
lOO-ycar-uld
byway
huKgine
Vle
ijphuid
the
Parliament
buildings
at
Ottawa,
is
falling
Into
the
Ottawa
river
and
becoming
rown
with
bushes
and
trees.
For
years
romantic
couples
found
sanctuary
on
one
of
the
benches
lining
the
walks
or
wandering
abng
the
shady
path.
It
was
closed
to
the
public
p
the
Second
World
War
because
parts
of
tae
walk
were
crumbling
into
the
river.
his
allies
flat-footed
and
left
took
at
least
16
lives.
World's
Worst
Air
Tragedy
By
The
Canadian
Press
,
TOKYO
A
giant
them
resentful.
DIRECT
ACTION
German
truck
drivers
100
miles
of
highway
be
Rhee's
arbitrary
order
for
the
tween
West
German
and
Berlin
first
time
turned
South
Korea's
vociferous
anti-truce
threats
three-decker
C-124
Globe-
relayed
to
West
Berlin
police
unconfirmed
rumors
that
Red
noliee
also
had
shot
and
killed
into
direct
action.
No
official
source
would
spec
edit
Union
Manager
Acquitted
i
Driving
Charge
in
Police
Court
i
22
rioters
In
Magdeburg
Wednesday,
and
that
similar
riot-
ulate
whether
that
would
delay
or
block
the
armistice
that
had
seemed
only
an
arm's-reach
master
transport
crashed
in
flames
near
Tackikawa
Air
Base
today
and
killed
128
United
States
soldiers
and
crew
"members
in
the
world's
worst
aviation
strikes
against
the
Communist
government
erupted
In
Dresden,
Chemnitz,
Dessau
and
away.
First
reaction
from
observers
v..
u
-old
credit
union
,
Government
liquor
store
here,
.the
Third
and
McBridc
wax
aenulttrd
in
uollre
i
vfiuiroio
va,.n
it
ti
section
from
the
east,
and
was
that
Rhee's
move
would
not
keen
the
Allies
from
signing
an
his
morning
of
a
driving
I,
,..,'
...
....
Ki,i
u
Cripps
had
approached
along
A
CANADIAN
CONTRIBUTION
under
the
Colombo
Plan,
the
Vancouver-built
fishing
vessel
North
Star,
is
unloaded
at
Colombo.
The
North
Star
and
a
sister
ship,
the
Canadian,
travelled
as
deck
cargo
from
Vancouver
to
Colombo..
There,;
British
Columbia
fishermen
will
assist
Ceylonese
in
surveying
the
fishing
potential
of
the
continental
shelf
surrounding
Ceylon.
The
two
boats,
together
with
a
trawler
also
bought
by
Canada,
.iU
be
used
ih'lhe
survey
r,,
4
r:c-.:",.
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'..i
""
;vvt:
armistice
agreement
Ten
thousand
Soviet
armored
troops
encircled
Berlin's
Russian-occupied
sector,
some
pointing
their
guns
westward,
arising
out
of
a
twp-car
j
i
May
21
at
the
corner
j
Rhee's
order
came
Wednesday
vehicle
driven
by
Cripps
and
described
by
Const.
Miller
were
"the
Third
from
the
west.
Cripps
testified
that
he
proached
the
Intersection
'
I
most
significant
evidcnc"
and
night
and
by
5
a.m.
25,000
prisoners
had
slipped
-away
in--th
darkness
and
scattered
through
South
Korea.
that
it
appeared
Cripps
had
gone
!
20
nUw
hour",
and
en-.
With
most
of
the
16.000
South
e
Magistrate
W.
D.
Vance
i
through
the
Intersection
on
a
tl
George
Vlereck.
sec-
red
light.
nanager
of
the
Prince
j
Corporal
cawdcll,
RCMP.
pro-Fishermens
Credit
SPCUted
the
ca.sc
and
hCid
that
Korean
guards
standing
by
idly,
others
directing
their
ominous
attention
toward
the
East
-Germans.
'
.
-
T
Machine-gun
fire;that
;rtppcd
along
the
east-west'
zonal
frontier
In
the
heart
of
the
city
from
Wednesday
noon
Into
the
night
was
heard
again
early
today.
Martial
law,
slapped
on
East
Berlin'
Wednesday,
at
the
peak
tered
the
lnterseetton
proceeding
east
on
Third
AVenu.e.when
the
signal
light
turned
-
from
green
to
amber,
j
,t
(
"Just
as
I
looked
up
I
saw
a
car
in
front
of
me,"
said
Cripps.
"I
slammed
on
the
brakes
and
we
collided."
He
said
he
had
Huge
Military
Warehouses
Destroyed
in
Alaska
Fire
small
numbers
of
surprised
U.S.
soldiers
tried
to
stop
the
flight
'Vicrcck
had
swung
too
sharply
arienee
counsel,
ft.
tjrucc
aid:
mnii
u.'hri
Kluitild
hnve
;
in
milking
a
left
turn.
disaster.
.T-A-JieUcopter
,
flying
over
the
.
smouldering
.
wreck
spotted
no
sign
of
life.
The
plane
crashed
just
after
takeoff
from
Tachlkawa
base
near
Tokyo.
The
Globemaster
hit
the
ground
trying
to
turn
back
to
base.
The
crash
was
only
four
miles
from
the
runway.
The
worst
previous
air
disaster
occurred
last
December
20
when
the
-
same
;type
of
plane
crashed
after
a
'
takeoff
from
Larsen
Air
Force
Base
at
Moses
Lake,
Wash.
Eighty-seven
U.S.
soldiers
on
their
way
home
for
with
rifle
fire,
but
they
were
too
few.
Nine
prisoners
were
killed
and
ANCHORAGE."
Alaska.
,
ft
Wind-blown
flames
which
start-
seen
no
signal
by
hand
or
flasher
of
bloody
street
fighting,
was
18
Were,
wounded.
fighting
tile
blaze.
,
,"
The
town
is
isolated
.except
by
rail:
and,
air
.and
the.
only
communications
facilities
are
mili
from
the
turning
car.,
....
,
Mr.
Brown
called
three
witnes
extended
today
to
othre
cities
of
edin
surrounding'
timber
,de$
As
the
news
became
known,
nsrged
is
James
Cripps
j
Const.
Miller,
who
Investigated
t
Vieret
k."
the
collision,
later
laid
the
charge
i.
a
crown
witness,
was
against
Vlereck,
after
taking
if
the
second
ear
involved
measurements
on
the
location
of
collision.
Cripps
is
also
I
vehicles
and
several
photographs,
d
in
connection
with
last
'
Evidence
showed
that
Viereck.
ay
night's-
robbery
of
the
driving
a
coupe,
had
approached
East
'Germany.
the
8th
'
Army
".
cancelled
'
all
troyed
two
huge
multi-million
dollar
military-
warehouses'
at
ses,
besides
accused,
to
testify
in
tary.'
They
were
clogged
atd
no
civilian
messages
were
being
leaves
for
Allied
troops.
The
problem
of
rounding
;
up
the
prisoners
appeared
almost
impossible
many
Were
South
defence.
Mrs.
Beatrice
Breaks,
344
Sixth.
Avenue
Went,
-and
Rudolph
Olscn,
134
Fifth
Avenue
accepted.
Bennett
To
Attend
West,
were
passengers
with
Vler
Christmas
were
killed
and
30
survivors
were
injured.
eck.
'.-.
PROPAGANDA
BROADCAST
SAID
KOREAN
WAR
OVER
Koreans
who
had
been
pressed
into
the
North
Korean
army.
All
could
blend
into
the
mass
of
other
South
Koreans,
unmarked
by
language
or
physical
Both
testified
tivat
their
car
had
entered
the
Intersection
on
WhitUcr,
72
miles
southeast
of
here,
Wednesday
night
and
are
burning
uncontrolled.
'
Alaska
Defence
Command
officials
said
the
flames
were
raging
through
the
port's
dock
and
had
reached
the
vicinity
of
the
Alaska
Railroad
depot.
Damage
was
estimated
by
railroad
officials
as
"at
least
several
million
dollars"
in
destruction
of
the
warehouses
alone.
They
were
I
bulging
with
military
supplies
Socred
Meet
Bert
Withers
Transferred
To
Royal
City
G.
G.
(Bert)
Withers,
n
VICTORIA
CP
Premier
Ben
nett
said
Wednesday
night
a
a
green
light,
that
it
turned
to
amber
as
they
were
well
Into
the
intersection,
and
that
Viereck
had
signalled
a
left
turn
with
his
arm.
Both
said
that
the
oncoming
panel
with
which-they
collided
Social
Credit
conference
will
be
!
Mililia
Demanded
Mrs:
Wrathall
Dies
After
Long
Illness
l
After
a
prolonged
illness
Mrs.
W.
H.
(Lydia)
Wrathall
died
ager
of
the
W.
H.
Malkin
Company
Limited
here
since
Octo
held
in
Toronto
June
26
and
27
to
discuss
the
platform
for
the
forthcoming
federal
election.
4
ttoui.
Front-line
Communist
loudspeakers,
used
cxl.cn-v
for
Red
propaganda,
today
blared
that
truce
hnd
been
tl
in
Korea
"and
the
war
is
over."
The
Reds
were
wrong.
Any
armistice
agreement
must
he
signed
by
General
Mark
k
United
Nations
commander
In
the
Far
F,ast,
and
Red
rals
Kim
II
Sung
and
Peng
Teh
Hua,
none
of
whom
have
in
I'anmunjom
where
such
an
agreement
would
be
"d
since
the
truce
talks
started
almost
two
years
ago.
when
the
blaze
started.
'
The
fire
started
at
5:45
p.m.
In
Doukhobor
Area
ber,
1939,
has
been
appointed
to
Maska
time
and
quickly
spread
through
the
sprawling
new
area
which
serves
as
a
military
port
came
on
mem
ai
consiuurauie
speed,
and
that
Viereck.
had
stopped
the
car
seconds
before
the
collision.
-
"If
Mr.
Vlereck
hadn't
stopped
when
he
did,
the
truck
would
a
similar
position
in
New
Westminster.
He
and
nis
wife
and
their
11-year-old
.son,
Donald,
are
leav
NELSON
(CP)
Demand
that
the
militia
be
called
in
imme
of
facility
for
the
entire
territory
of
Alaska.
diately
as
protection
against
any
ing
tonight
aboard
the
Prince
Wednesday
in
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
at
the
age
of
65.
have
hit
us
at
the
door
where
Mi.
Olscn
was
sitting,"
said
Mrs.
Leader
of
B.C.'s
Social
Credit
government,
he
said
a
"good
representation"
from
this
province
will
attend
the
meeting,
which
he
said
will
be
the
"most
Important
conference
Social
Credit
has
ever
held
In
Canada."
Premier
Bennett
said
he
will
attend
the
conference'
along
with
national
leader
Solon
Low
and
Alberta's
Premier
Manning.
A
special
tralnload
of
troops
oxer
Sentenced
to
Hang
was
to
leave
here
at
6
a.m.
today
Breaks.
to
help
military
stevedore
companies
stationed
at
Whittler
in
Viereck
himself
testified
that
he
thought
the
oncoming
ve
Rupert.
Mr.
Withers,
who
has
been
with
the
company
for
21
years,
has
been
succeeded
by
A.
G.
(Art)
Hinton,
who
has
been
with
the
company
for
the
past
14
years.
new
violence
by
radical
Douk-hobors
was
made
here
Wednesday
night.
The
demand
was
made
at
a
meeting
of
representatives
of
the
Slocan
Valley
Citizens'
Committee
and
rallwaymen
who
take
trains
through
the
Doukhobor
area.
or
Slaying
Last
March
hicle
would
stop
when
it
approached
the
intersection
on
an
Gus
Leighton
After
the
jury
had
brought
In
amber
Utiht.
E.
J.
Jardine,
a
director
of
the
Born
In
Rickmansworth,
Hertford,
England
In
1887,
Mrs
Wrathall
moved
to
Canada
.with
her
parents
at
an
early
age
settling
first
in
Carman,
Manitoba.
Later
she
moved
to
Victoria
where
she
received
j
hci
education.
She
went
to
Hozelton
as
a
bridi
in
1908
where
Mr.
Wrathall
wa:
government
telegraph
operator
and
moved
to
Prince
Rupert
ir
1913
when
her
husband
purchas
W
H.
Malkin
Company,
an
The
telegram
was
sent
to
Premier
Bennett
and
Attorney-
After
the
collision,
Vlereck
said
he
got
out
of
the
car
and
telephoned
the
police.
Magistrate
Vance
cautioned
Viereck
to
"always
leave
enough
room
when
making
right
or
left
the
guilty
verdict,
but
before
Mr.
Justice
J.
V.
Clyne
had
pronounced
sentence,
Matthews
asked
that
if
death
was
to
be
the
penalty
that
the
execution
date
be
within
30
days.
"I
could
'not
say
that
I
did
Halibut
Season
Ends
July
7
Halibut
fishing
In
Area
3A
will
COuvkr
W
Prize
fighter
'
Matthews
Wednesday
's
convicted
of
murder
death
of
a
woman
blud-1
to
death
with
a
hammer
sentenced
to
be
hanged.
Assize
Court
jury
took
Just
ules
to
decide
that
Math-
h
sought
acquittal
on
's
of
insanity,
was
sane
at
General
Bonner.
It
said:
"
'We
do
not
consider
the
Recovering
Gus
Leighton,
who
suffered
head
injuries
when
he.
fell
from
the
dock
at
Cow
Bay
last
week,
is
making
"satisfactory
progress,"
his
physician
said
today.
Mr.
Leighton,
who
weighs
250
pounds,
fell
to
the
hatch
combing
of
the
Cape
Perry
nounced
the
changes
here
today.
Mr.
Hinton
began
work
as
an
office
clerk
at
Cranbrook,
and
was
transferred
to
Prince
Rupert
in
1940.
Since
then
he
has
been
in
almost
every
department
of
the
business.
Doukhobor
situation
in
the
Kootenays
under
control,
as
the
turns.
Make
them
good
and
wide,
it
also
gives
you
a
chance
ed
a
stationery
business
and
wa:
situation
is
a
definite
revolt
:lose
at
11:59
p.m.
July
3,
It
was
officially
announced
here
today
by
the
International
Fisheries
Commission.
against
the
British
Columbia
not
kill
Mrs.
Smith
and
1
can-"
not
deny
Hie
evidence
given
in
this
court
by
police
officers
(o
prove
I
was
the
man
that
did
';lne
of
the
slaying
of
Mrs.
to
see
pedestrians
stepping
irom
the
curb."
government.
Pies
Smith,
44.
He
was
ed
to
die
September
29.
It,"
the
Negro
youth
said.
'
.
The
prosecution
charged
that
Matthews
killed
Mrs.
Smith
on
March
4
because
the
Negro
woman
had
"interferred
and
frustrated"
his
love
affair
with
a
Negro
girl
named
Peggy
Bow-
perators
an
t
Bear
also
a
telegraph
operator,
,
Mrs.
Wratnau
was
a
membe
of
the
First
Baptist
Church
to
many
years
and
was
an
actlVi
member
of
the
Women's
Cana
dlan
Club.
Besides
her
husband,
she
leave
two
daughters,
Audrey
and
Vtv
ian.
and
four
sons,
William,
Johr
Richard
and
Kenneth,
all
o
Prince
Rupert.
There
are
fou
grandchildren.
Funeral
services
will
tak-place
from
Grenville
Chapel
oi
Saturday
at
4
p.m.,
Rev.
F.
An-trobus
officiating.
.
"RCMP
protection
is
not
sufficient.
We
therefore
demand
that
the
militia
immediately
take
over
as
per
Premier
W.
A.
C.
Benntt's
promise
to
these
committees
June
S."
Another
telegram,
asking
that
representatives
of
the
federal
and
provincial
governments
meet
with
the
committees
"immediately"
was
sent
to
Prime
Minister
St.
Laurent,
Justice
Minister
Garson,
Premier
Bennett
and
the
attorney-general.
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Costs
to
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the
girl
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the
day
that
Mrs.
Smith
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LOUVER
(CP)
Coast
lum-11(1
lugging
operators
said
day
that
if
they
were
was
killed
the
woman
wno
uvea
in
the
same
house,
Mrs.
Jocelyn
Wallberg,
was
found
bound
and
brutally
beaten
and
she
identified
Matthews
as
her
assailant.
'
l"
bear
additional
costs
1
'ace
of
dccllnine
market
'
thf
result
would
be
"red
lld
shutdowns."
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up
their
case
before
"'ff-niin
conciliation
Forest
Industrial
Rela-
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Forecast
North
Coast
Region:
Cloudy
and
cool
today
with
scattered
WINNIPEG
DENTIST
HONORED
AT
CONVENTION
IN
JASPER
i
JASPER-l-The
first
person
ever
to
receive
the
distinction,
Dr.
Harold
Garvin
of
Winnipeg
today
was
elected
an
honorary
member
of
the
Western
Canada
Dental
Association
at
its
biennial
meeting
here.
The
honor
was
bestowed
upon
Dr.
Garvin
following
the
announcement
of
bis
retirement
after
18
years
as
editor
of
the
.
Canadian
Dental
Association
journal.
He
has
served
as
president
of
the
society
for
two
terms.
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'argalnlng
unit
for
158
operators,
said:
amount
of
fan
alter
the
fact
that
average
operator
in
the
rv-
if
costs
rise
with
x
as
they
must,
and
if
'
remain
where
they
are
or
go
lower,
the
result
is
earnings,'
red
ink
and
showers
on
winawara
Sunny
periods
in
the
northern
part.
Variable
cloudiness
Friday.
Wind
northwest
15.
Lows
tonight
and
high
Friday
At
Port
Hardy
and
Sand-spit,
45
and
55;
Prince
Rupert,
45
and
BO.
party
when
the
gun
was
discharged
by
a
rna
in
the
second
rank.
LeMire's
wound,
behind
his
left
ear,
was
hot
severe.
The
firing
party
was
attending
the
military
funeral
of
LAC.
W.
H.
Waldrun
of
Comox,
Vancouver
Island,
who
(.tied
in
a
plane
crash.
J
LAC.
JOSEPH
R.
LeMIRE
of
the
RCAF
station
at
Calgary
lies
on
the
ground
after
being
wounded
by
a
blank
.303
cartridge
,
accidentally
discharged
at
a
military
funeral
at
Burnsland
cemetery.
The
photo
was
taken
a
few
seconds
after
the
accident.
LeMire
was
standing
in
the
front
runk
of
the
firing