Li."??? A Y tars? a PROVIHCIAL LI2.1Anr, 113 lc lfiSST33IA, B. C. I.? 31 . 153 . 3.V x : : .: Daily I IS 28 p 11 iC 23 13 30 17.8 feet 16.1 feet 10 0 feet 60 feet Delivery NORTHLRN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific PortTrince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 84. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS d Phone 81 ' t t .n (fa Cii(ti I -j - - jr -if "", . ST y'4illS French Fort v 4 , ?' f.. tit, i Planes Find Wreck In Mediterranean ROME) (CP) Bodies and scattered wreckage were reported sighted in the Mediterranean today by planes searching for a comet jet airliner missing since-last night with 21 persons aboard on a flight from Rome to Cairo. ; It was feared the traces mark ! aviation meeting with Canadiun Again Faces Hot Barrage New Assault Seen imminent 7 authorities the graveyard of the second of I the jet-age transport to crash in the Mediterranean this yenr. i An armada of planes and fihips scoured the Mediterranean area on the Comet s route to Britain immediately grounded all her Comets, pride of her Pir!wlro ""n3 me night and in j HANOI AP) The i Communist-led Vietminh: I opened a "violent" artill i transport Industry, for the sec ond time since January, when another of the same type crash I L ht.Ji l I, ed off the Island of Elba. Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of British Overseas Airways Jill: SPIRIT of the occasion at the recent air fi and sun banquet here were the Pedersen and $ who were represented by three members apiece. J n i seated left) came with his two boys, Roy and Robert, and Tony Toth accompanied his sons, Steve and Tony. Roy Pedersen is senior cadet of the squadron. The dinner was held to commemorate the 13th year of air cadet activities in Canada, and the 30th anniversary of the RCAF. Photo by Chandlers Studio Canadian amateur middleweight champion Trent Ket-cheson of the RCN is shown above with the two trophies he won Saturday night in the Elks Lodge fight card. Ketcheson, the Navy's British Empire Games nominee, was awarded the smaller trophy for defeating Andy Marshall, Prince Rupert's 1954 Golden Gloves champion, and the large trophy for being the best boxer of the night. tensified the search at first light of dawn. First sighted was a huge oil slick about 50 miles south of the Isle of Capri. Surface craft, took samples for a check on ' whether it was aviation oil. The Reuters news agency reported that the air-sea rescue centre here had received a radio message from a searching plane that wreckage had been sighted. The follow-up report said bodies had been discovered in the same area. The Comet, owned by BOAC and chartered to South African Airways for a joint service between London and Johannesburg, took off Theursday evening from Rome's Ciampino airport. It was due in Cairo at 9:20 p.m. . I The plane carried a crew of I seven South Africans and 14 Labor Code Nearing Corporation, which owned the craft, which disappeared Thursday night, said today: "Until the manufacturers can tell us that they have discovered and rectified the cause of these tragedies we certainly cannot carry any passengers in Comets." THIRD TRAGEDY He said BOAC had given the Pomet "all the support, encour ery barrage today on the French Union fortress of Dien Bien Phu in what may be a prelude to a new mas assault on the Indo-China bastion. A French communique said the, defenders answered back with tremendous barrages as the rebels rained down thousands of shells from their 105- and 75-mlllimetre artillery and heavy mortars in the hills encircling the French-held plain on which the fortress stands. REPEATED ATTACKS Such artillery step-ups have )val in Principle Tiie govern- trial strife." I Irani labor rela-' Liberal Leader Arthur Laing .ay rolled peaee- ! followed, with: "It would be; ; jruval in prln- ' better for labor management re-' , GOVERNMENT ALLOTS $39,000 FOR ROADS ON CHARLOTTES A total of $39,000 has been allocated by the B.C. government for improvement of roads on the Queen Charlotte Islands, it is reported by Bruce Brown, MLA for Prince Rupert. The largest part of this will be for construction work on the road between Ma.4et and Port Clements, for which $20,000 has been allocated. To improve and maintain the Port Cle-ments-Dunro road, the sum of $9,000 has been set aside. The balance of $10,000 will be spent on the road between Masset and Tow Hill. This road is used almost exclusively by the cannery at Masset in connection with its clam operations. ,y ... : , . ' 1, - , 1 1 1 1 V ': ' 1 , ' """'"Mlf, I- agement and promotion that any operator can expect to give any new aircraft. We have had three inexplicable tragedies unions in this province in 1954 1 Target Date Set July 1 iaiure. a voiced strong which all follow up a certain if this bill- be not proceeded pattern on reaching or up toil, which was with at this time.' heralded the Vietmlnh's two I proaching maximum altitude at passengers, three Americans, lull power." I two South Africans, seven Brt- This bill and this minister seioKil reading, ; : stormy sessions previous attempts to overrun the fortress. There was a two-day l KTTIMAT Tulv 1 hs been Wave of assaults beginning set by the Aluminum Company have Invited every bit of misery j in the province to -come to his ! door." ' pleas for withdrawal of the! l::t.hucd today. iwarcn la. men six oays 01 re-ot Canada aa -target date" for groups support- , i im- ulth'lmw-' Theft; Forgery Charges peaiea aiiacxs on various corn-, completion o smelter the plain s defences whicii;tl0Il antf thc start t)f pro. ended Monday. ' .1 . . ... Bill wore "also made Bythc'Wo - aucuun vi uiuiuiiiiuu iiiKtiwa. The disaster caused postpone-1 tons, an Egyptian and a Swiss, ment of a scheduled flight to 1 Half an hour out of Rome, the Ottawa tonight by Transport j plane radioed: "We are making Minister Alan Lennox-Boyd, who 1 altitude." That was the, last went to the House of Commons heard from it. " - r ' to announce the tragedy sec- In Paris the French minister ond in the Commonwealth j of civil aviation, Paul Devinat, Thursday and the grounding of j ordered the airline Union Aero-the sleek Jets. The minister maritime des Transports to said he hopes to leave for Can- ground its three Comet jet air-ada ' Saturday or Sunday for an liners. n leader Arnold , George T. Malby, resident en oome rrencii nnny sources, j however, said today that they gineer, said the first stage of lone members In the house: Dr.! Larry Giovando (PC-Nanaimol ui'd Tom Uphill (Ind.-Lab.-Fer-nie). Dr. Ciuvamiu, wno said the bill ! would interfere with the freedom 1 the plant containing two pot Bring 3-Year Jail Term A sn-vear-nlrf former Dart- ! tences in Naoanee 'tind one each j believe the Vietminh renewal 1 will not come for another "four 'i the objection ' A'l it would be the j nisdom for the or five days." to withdraw the ' of labor, asked that lubor have! lines is expected to be ready then to receive first power over the 50-mile transmission lines from Kemano. Ultimate plan for the smelter owner of a cafe in Smilhers, 'in Toronto, St. Catharines and ' ENDS LONG LULL Robert Gawn McCuliough, li ft ; Windsor. ' The artillery duel started af- here by plane under police es-i He was arrested in Napanee ! tcr the French had reported that cort today for the B.C. Peni- and Meyers' U-drive car which) the lull in the Dien Blen Phu tcntiary for a three-vear stay. McCullough had rented here! area had continued through its calls for 12 pot lines, six times m the industrial more time to study it and Mr.j iW arbitration act," , Uphill said the bil should be de- S "'d layed so conferences can be held J t it this act is with labor and management on: W without amend- ; it. i f are wttinu the In his talk supporting the bill,! Full-Scale Inquiry Underway Into Moose Jaw Plane Crash was recovered He was sentenced by magistrate W. D. Vance in police Police said McCullough left a W p7iol of nidus- Labor Minister Lyle Wicks said r;:: : 1 nm.rt. Hp vestrrdav to one iraii oaa cnequcs irom nere MOOSE JAW, Sask. (CP) A Hie guveriimeub wuevea we act, ; .(Ibvjto the Ontario city. He also full-scale inquiry by Trans-Can n uuiu (luuiiuikiuuiij i.uuvi iuuti. , Croup the size of the present construction which covers an area 1500 feet long and 1200 feet wide. Total area covered by the smelter to present construction including the 700-foot concrete dock and conveyor belt is about three-quarters of a a mile square. Major plant work at present is concentrated on installation of the 350 smeltiijg pots. Recently installed on the dock is ada Airlines, the RCAF and the Department of Transport into X Allen fourth successive night. The French defenders and their rebel besiegers were utilizing the "calm" to Intensify their feverish build-up of men and supplies for the expected showdown "battle of Geneva." It Is clear . that the Vietminh must strike soon, however, if they hope to win a big victory before the East-West conference on Asia opens in Geneva April 26. Further south in Indo-Chlna, King Norodom Sihanouk of the crash yesterday of a North Star airliner and an RCAF Harvard trainer which took 37 lives, is under way today. Fred Meyers, three years on a to industrial peace and harmony in B.C. which in turn will reflet t torgrry charge and one year on upon the well-being of every ; a charge of fal.se pretences. imiu. woman and child in our' The sentences were In addi-piovince." j tion to a two-year term meted He cited several things which out against him in Napanee, On-hf .said proved that the ICA Act tario, last October following his was breaking down. f conviction on six charges of issued a bad cheque to .Meyers fur the car which he obtained here last July 31. Prosecutor T. W. Brown, QC, informed court of the various charges against McCullough after which magistrate Vance passed sentences. He was sentenced to three yea?-s for forgery in Kamloops bombing of a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane at Sault au Co-chon, Que., in 1949. The names of all victims but that of the RAF pilot were announced Thursday night. The name of the NATO pilot, , a young Englishman, was not disclosed pending notification of his next-of-kin. The victims included Mr. and Mrs. George Sweny of Vancouver, married last December and returning home for the first time since Mr. Sweny, president of Vancouver Iron Works, was The slngle-engined RCAF Har vard struck the westbound a giant crane for loading and and j Trans-Canada Air Lines North unloading deep-sea ships, Mr. Webster gave three main false pretences. obiectious to the bill: Star 6,000 feet above this city of 25,000 residents at 10 a.m. Thursday. A wing of the big, that McCullough was convicted; . BnIc,!)Hori ,? tn . sv;.iUjle infor-f proposed sale of f shipyard and ';i,,rs of Hie city's : committee will ! week with Ber-'R representative f "urns. Mr. Allen April 14. aniiounremi'nl :,'r(' chairman f Ported that mih- yims.ble fr fin- Industry-wide bargaining would come to an end. a pneumatic unioaaer ior piping alumina from ships to the conveyor belt. A 600-foot wide 'channel, 30 feet deep, has been dredged to the approach of the dock. Cambodia today ordered general mobilization and announced he would appeal to the United Nations against Vietminh aggression there. charge of false pretences in Kimberley. Sentences are concurrent. on three charges of false pre- Kitsumkalum four-engined aircraft was sheered off and the stricken aircraft twisted crazily earthward to In another case yesterday, Rex W. Rechedk was fined $150 and costs, or two -months in jail, after he was convicted on a charge of supplying liquor to a native. meanwliiip hold The minister of labor is given , "unnrccedented powers" Effective strike action would become '.'almost, impossible." j Mr. Wicks said some "deficlen- cies" may be in the act and I f-ome may be found In the f u-1 ture. I ' If th" time and clrcumstonres demonstrate these things to be, true, tnen I ran assure tne house j that necessary changes will be : nif.de. : j "While it is our belief that Bill 28 will be the means of bringing 1;lr a line of ac- injured in a Quebec train wreck in February. Harry McLean, 22, was to have met Doug Harper, Canadian light-heavyweight champion, in the ring at Calgary Tuesday. Aboard the plane, too, was Oscar Blanck who built a hamburger stand into one of Vancouver's largest restaurants, "Oscars." Pat Reid, 59, who began his flying in 1915 and won the DFM Indian Shot FORT ST. JAMES ff - Larry Bennett, a Kitsumkalum Indian cf Port EssingUm, was reported by RCMP Thursday to have be ':i nhot tiiroimh the lung nUils new. home on the Necosli Indian reserve near here. destruction. Under way, too, was the grisly task of identification of bodies. Late Thursday night, only 17 of the 37 victims had been identified. Eleven bodies were taken from the remains of the North Star. That of Mrs. Martha Hadwen. the cleaning woman, was taken from the red-hot embers of the destroyed house. That of the 'n named first. Ucs are- fin.nwu B.C To Quit un Williamson; T f5i.r., uiii. I 'V Robins James Bennett is reported in good unning NATO student pilot was found about bettor Industrial relations; condition in hospital at Vander- 1 F'WIr; plimr f;- Douk Souter cr. W. hoof. Details of the shooting.! mrs niarlr r,-... In the unburned wreckage of the. Harvard. The others were strewn over an area of seven ? Gl'"I'i;P Casey, In the province of B.C., the government dues not believe Bill 28 is the 'be all and end all' to Industrial relations and peace," he said. . in the First World War, had become aviation sales manager for Imperial Oil Ltd. The North Star's stewardess, Marjorie Quinney, was killed. The crash was TCA's first fatal accident in nearly seven years. were not disclosed by the police. Horn at Port Easlngton, Bennett was married recently and moved to Necosli a month ago. Art Og- square miles. The greatest previous loss of life in the crash of a scheduled airliner was 23 dead in the time- Rent Control VICTORIA P' the British Columbia government' is going out of the rent control business next year. A bill which would repeal provincial rent control legislation as of March 31, 1955 and provide machinery for municipalities to take over rent control was introduced In the legislature yesterday. The province took over rent controls when the federal government dropped them after the Second World War. on Prince Rupert's Early History 5 - Manson's Take on High School itoorgina Mitchell Trip to Ottawa In Cage Series For City Title '''"ips anri rivp CK .1nM tinttnin Tav. nuni'inuofl hnr vipfnrv Bill McChesney's Manson's ny Bill, Kay spring. Art, uisen, '.Ne'B Jjf . Mickey werjster, uon nariwig, Omegas and Jack Evans' Bo-Me- (ffJUj ... ...j- uhv Willi UVU rUvlltia j vmi-ijuj-w t mi! . lslHna on in the final. ! Miss Mitchell thanked the club i k 1 lienn.i' B Wt're told six students took part In the for the honor and then had her I Mitchell: contest here. Eliminated in picture taken with club presi- hlk , f 1 10 'He Rotary : speeches made two weeks ago dent Tony Crawley. I Joe Walsh and George Dumas. Hi Rainmakers take the Civic WEATHER Liniment and bandages will Centre floor" tonight In the first I on hanc( in liberal quantities North coast region: Variable before other hieh school students I In her speech. Miss Mitchell i'.itm for the prelude to the Manson- Otl her a wprp- RurhnrEi nnnninnt. Mnrip-I told how the city began In 1906 1 cloudiness with occasional showe P'-'ze in- line Sklapsky. El.sa Insulander i and was Incorporated lour years ers 01 snow or mixed rain ana snow today and Saturday. Con later when the citizens lived in ntest. she I1'1 other B.C. stu. tinulng cold. Winds westerly 20 and George Henry. With the exception of Miss Insulander, all were guests of the In exposed areas both afternoons I I"' t0 le Cana J? mid-May. otherwise westerly 15. Low to' shacks or tents. "In spite of the pioneers being told they were crazy to come here, their dreams and plans are just beginning to be fulfilled. Rotary club at yesterday s lunch- ?' arrive n f night and high Saturday at Port Hardy 2a and 45, Sandsplt and the r, . Vtt,"aa j eon. I L .' of m announcing the winner, of a two-game total point series for the unofficial city basketball championship. Evans, confident that his squad would take the series on total points, said today that his lineup would consist of Fred Krist-manson, Dick Nickerson, Ron Ciccone, Bill Morrison, Rod Tait, Gary Morlson, Rey McKay, Doug Sankey and Art Helin. McChesney, dapper Omega coach, not given to prc-game forecasting for his Senior B league champions and playoff winners, will probably field Dan- High school fixture when a team of Northern European descent takes on one of Southern European extraction. The former, coached by Irishman Art Murray, consists of Angus McPhee, Jack Lindsay, Bob Armstrong, Mella and Helg Holkestad, Ted Arney and Herb Morgan. Fred Calder-oni, coach of the Southern team, will play Sev Dominate, Vera Ciccone, Boyo Gurvich, NAcfc Pavlikis, Nick Mazzonl, Jerry Pettenuzzo, .Joe and Charlie Giordano. Prince Rupert 28 and 40. "Prince Rupert has the geo- i7nn.i.i.. . " mis. ri. u. waits, one 01 me take na , " whlch : JuclRes, said "both girls were so .graphic position for a trading v n bptween I good, we had great difficulty port to the Orient, the resources ii 10 I makimr a choice, however we are here and as the interior VANCOUVER (CP)-John Raw-ston, 63, an unemployed has been charged with at- f I1UWJ uy viMiiuiw a oiuuiu BILL MORRISON, right, is shown standing above his sagging opponent, Doug Kerr, after an exchange of blows in the heavyweight fight on the Elks Lodge fight card Saturday. Kerr. RCN fighter, was unable to take pounding from Morrison in Infighting and is shown, eyes closed, as he slid to canvas with arms draped around the victorious Prince Rupert boxer. were unanimous in our final grows and expands our city h bound to feel the growth, and I tempted murder in the ax- r -- wirs. 0eorKe ue East: M ... , decision." Other Judges were Rev. F. An trohus and Frnd Ait.rm. . will become the outlet for the bludgeoning of his wife Isabella north , ..." ' 1 1' bout 60. sr oini-r.t. "t Jlnnth.