provincial! 2Y: ' SORROW'S VICTORIA, 2. c. 113 TIDES January 20, 1M ,.' standard Time) 5:45 18.5 feet 18 IB 15.3 feet feet 12:22 8.3 feet . ,,.-., ... , v .."' r In,;' ; '' 'V. V' xVf 5-4' r 7 "7' J Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL, XLIII, No. 20 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1954 PRICE FIVE f'FNTl Phone 81 CillMMtiiiilS JHk.i A ' a - Eft kN . 7 k IS) 1 All Schools Closed By Record Snowfall 3$$L 2 M fjtm I By The Canadian Press Hemingway, Wife Safe After Crash ny The Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda. A blizzard swept a wide area of British Columbia today, piling snowdrifts four to six feet high along highways and snarling transportation and communication lines. f ' Four inches to a foot of snow fell on the B.C. mainland over i ,l,l,in iiihhmw .1 I il Novelist Ernest Homing- Transcontinental Ride night with Vancouver in the centre of the storm. :": . ' ' i x i ft i I, ; K. . . .' - i . ', -T 'it I "' . r ' -'.'.'- fu i .ft O ' . ) T j . .r-'- t . W. , - f v i ' , -1 .. . ' -r ' f , I t . I. , J 1 , " , . i way and hiH wife weiM 'safe and unhurt today af ter two plane crackupd, il.L l RTStHS doctor told him 20 m nths ago to quit work because of a lung ailment. I out on a 1 1.500-niile horseback ride. . It took him from Kitchener, Ont., to Halifax, . ancouvcr and buck to Kitchener. Th panel on left shows the clean-shaven Martscli : ted out on Pocky, his mount. On the r ght he is shown with the beard and lone hair . not to cut until he finished the ride. Travelling In temperatures ranging from 104 l o 32 below zero, he didn't have a single cold. V"' A U 'schools were closed in Vancouver, giving 50.000 pupilr an unexpected holiday, as th--itv awoke to a blanket of snow ranging from six to eight Inches H wa driven by a 35-mile-an-hour southeast wind. Total fall so far this month is 26.7 inches. Hundreds of schools also were -losed in rural districts. Thousands of workers were late for work. Many were Idle. Mills closed and all outside work at shipyards was halted. Three desths were attributer! to the weather in Vancouver : here in the big game wilds i ,cf central East Africa. J The couple's charterrd slsjht-' seeing plane was damaged Sit- j urday when they landed alons-j side the Upper Nile to take j pictures. Later a rescue plrne cracked ud as it tried to take ; off with them. No one was hurt. Today the Hemingways were ! headed by road for Entebbe, at quit Calls For Settlement German, Austrian Problems : I S 11 ;t4 y VI. H1GHTOW KK I Pc. S'.ttl Willi r unification of Germany and a change In the International accords ecivcinlrig Communist China" luring the week-end. Two men -Med from gas poisoning when a! Foreign Minister jult proposed to the une Broke as they worked at a the head of Uganda's Lake Victoria. Ihc United States couple with pilot Roy Marsh left Nairohi, Kenya, Saturday for a 600-mile flight to the 400-foot Marchison Fn'U of Uganda. Their Cessna was spotted Sunoay by Capt. R. C, Jurte. ay tlmt German and ohlcms be set' led ALLIES IMTLO This proposal by the Frencn foreign minister served direct West Berlin since the 1S45 Potsdam conference. It was Dulles' first major diplomatic mission since he became secretary of state. Their fir.st business was to pose for photographers of four nations and two half-nations East and West Germany. Thpy allowed 15 minutes for the picture taking. The critical business of the Big Four during the next three . . HUME . wise WRONG counsellor Former U.S, Ambassador diAciLKl'm o( A."lan furnace installation. Fire caused an estimated $30.-000 damage when it gutted the nurses,' residence at Quesnel General Hospital yesterday. No -ne was iniured. And. whlli thniiKutuiK at. piloting a British Ovr.vnis Air- j i - --.V : : V.3VS Corporation airlini-r. The Hemingways and March hailed a launch takinn tourists tempted to clear-roads. hi?ri-jOC ;1 vays and sidewalks,; more snow llvJ2 VlV Jr vas forecast for llip rlav nvrr notu e to Soviet Foreign Minister hiHmi nt was made Mnlotov that the Western pow-iini! session of the ers arc united in their op,s,tlon jnlfrence in Berlin to his rccpicat for a Big Four world tensions. meeting with Red China sitting ' rst iuch meeting in in. '.idault said; Molotov made thU propcjsal ur meetir.g should , after his arrival In Berlin Sat- furopcan prob- urday. . , . . . believe that agree. Foreign (Secretary Eden, Slate d on a brond plane Secretary Dulles. Molotov and ahle or even eflcct- Eidault, began their historic but iot see why the fate not too hooeful Berlin sessions In the lower mainland. OTTAWA CPl The undersec- Nanalmo is digging itself outlretary of state lor external at or four weeks will be German i to the falls. It brought them to ; unification, the place of Red 1 1'utiaba. 40 miles south of Lake China, and Austrian independ- Albert, where a rescue plane ence. In battling out such issues; landed Ut:ike. thvm tg Entebbe, 'they will find whether the cold ; JNLRNi;v BY ROAD ar can be eased. ; Thp rrsfur. PiAr, WAS dam. As motorcades for each mill- agfd taklnc off and failed to l"tar svfpi throut'h the marble lf come i.irboine Lac, ip, Hjme 'ntai oiroorf the United States, H. 4 niild depend on that the Allied control, authority gateway and around the oval The author and his wife thn' liy there should be building In the U.S. sector. . drive, flags of the four countries took to the load for the 185-j Island city so far this winter, i Wrong, died here Sunday at 59. Severe cold aLso continued in! External Affairs Minister Pear-other sections of B.C. and Can- j son a c!ose Irielfl of Canada's Overnight prairie tjmnera-! . . , , . , . tures averaged from 25 to 40 second h'Shest foreign affairs telow zero. I officer, described Mr. Wrong as Civic officials in Vancouver j "the finest type of public ser-claim the situation is extremely i vant" and said . "No man has serious as bus and rail trans-j made a greater contribution to ;i link between the It was Molotov's first visit to ' Whipped from four high white mile trip southeast to Entebbe TESTING THE DURABILITY of a lightweight plastic toboggan are Sandra Francis ilefti and Bev Stringer of Toronto. Toboggan, snow and bathing suits are plastic and will be displayed at the three-day international conference in Toronto beginning this Wednesday of the Society of Plastic Engineers. It will be the first time the engineers, from North and South staffs before the entrance. Ger- The couple's plans mishaps nun crowds watched from be- occurred in one or the wildest hind police barriers. "nd most beautiful areas of the f Plane Leaves Edmonton British protectorate of Uganda America and Europe, have held their meeting in Canada a section teeming with croco- ; HEAVILY GI ARDEI) j i ne area was neavuy guarded tines, elephants, buffalo. lions j Food For Eskimo Band port-Btion was stauea in ttnj early hours. Oldtimers said the storm was the worst to hit the coast city in more than 40 years. A storm which developed over the building up of Canada's foreign service or to the wise administration of Canada's foreign policies." Prime Minister St. Laurent said "Canada has lost a great public servant" and he has lost "a good friend and wise City Players, Polio Fund Both Lose in Hockey Game the ocean during the night this j , oy u.o. military ponce ana west mid other big game. Germun police. Among Hemingway's famous i The Big Four ministers' last , novels are Farewe ll to Arms. Fi r 'meeting, their eighth, was in Whom the Bell Tolls, und -Death mid-1940 after the Russians lift-' in the Afternoon. I ed the Berlin blockade. ! He has survived three wars 1 Since then, the West has inte-, the First and Second World . grated and built its strength. Wars nnd the Spanish civil war. Mo.h the United Stales ai.d Rus- i All of them have provided ma- sin hove exuloded hy irogen ! terial for his works. morning struck Vancouver Is-land. Mixed snow and rain whipped Victoria. ! ON (CP) Buffalo 'lied oal.s are being : to aid a nomadic d and Its near-who wandered V arctic settlement Kiver. about 1.100 and east of Ed- A 20-inch snowfall at Van- familiar nutRt i The first inter-city hockey second period Don Hill, of the j game in 35 years between Prince RCN tied it up for Rupert on a I Rupert and Smithers may have fast solo play. been a resounding success as a Robinson, w'th assists from igame and entertainment but it 1 KMoatrick, slammed in two quick couvers International Airport Mr. Wrone. a familiar fieure grounded tca planes to van-it0 most international diplomats couver isiana mis morning aui Sentence Reduced i in in i iii. Nc-rvit't mi i ,h nun in n was a financial flop so tar as the goals and Willi ims made it 4-1 f 05 missed the attempts were to De maae "'-''! delegations to wartime and post- SEOUL w The Uni'cd States : Kinsmen Club's polio drive was by the end of the second period gulf about 80 miles inside the Arctic circle. Constable Ferguson said the 12 Eskimo families are thin, with little food In their snow houses and no caches left. 1 hey are using their own food to keep their dogs alive. Ansulalik's food supply is not sufficient to meet the natives' demands. However, Constable F'-rguwn said the does would If food didn't arrive before Wednesday. The tvo-enplned Dakota scheduled a stop at Fort Smith, NWT, just north of the i tier' a border, to pick up the buffalo meat and oats. It was then to attempt a landing at Perrv River during the arctic twilight. uiirriiouu to mailt ct-vtiai inti-,. war conferences, spent more than Ku migration and fall's fishinz. An Meanwhile in Prince Rupert bomb devices. Joseph Staiin has , died and Oeorgi Malenkov be-jcame premier of the Soviet . Union. War has erupted and ended in Korea. The Western ministers at their i final strategy planning Sunday 'decided, among other things: half his almost 27 years in the 'ler namerl An,,,,. 4"lliig tliem nt hi. continued cold. The overnight : where fae hdped establisn :.tli uir force commander has re- concerned. j Huntington put Smithers still dived the court-martial .sen-1 The well-played and hard-1 further ahead at the 3.50 mark tence of Lieut. George Schrelber, ! fought game which saw Smithers of the third stanza and H1U got convicted or murd'-r m tne di a'h j win the Kaien Island Hockey , his second goal for Prince Rupert of a Korean national, from life ; championship and accompanying on a pass from Stan Petrow. imprisonment to five years at j trophy by a score of 6-4, netted Flockhart added another Smith-hard labor. Schreiber was eon-; the Kinsmen $167. a sum no- ; ers tallv and assisted Oulton in low was 15 degrees above To stick to their basic policies Forecast is for continued co'd with a 35-mile-an-hour easterly wind. Low tonight will be 10 above, and high tomorrow, 20 above. post. 'st for immediate 'ame Sunday in a sage from a RCMP I Cambridge Bay "lilts northeast i,f "i the Queen Maud lor unnying uermany. oeginning vicuq oy a general court-mar- where near the $300 necessary to! making it 6-2 before Prince Ru-with free elections to create an tiul last August on charges of stage the game and bring the cert answered. Stan Petrow au-ucrman government ann tnc prcnieimaien muracr ana con-! Smithers team to this city. 3 ; v. ' i' r-. v t.,- - t t'f1', t .VI -. ,M f ' ' ' ' i . ... V. 1 ', - ' t i. " VV' ' f i ' ' I pttniripai.ion oi iiiiu government spiracy 10 commit muroer HI ;ne niii Bond snrikeunan for thp L.l,....ti,... r.F 41, LT... ' ' in formulation of a peace treaty. en Welcomed bv Scots niade it 6-3 for Prince Rupert and Hill soloed in to beat the agile Don Trew ln the Smithers nets to make a hat trick for the game. Miner Simundsen turned in a praiseworthy job in the Prince Rupert goal. Summary: First period: Smithers, H. Kiuwnen club, said the club was sadly in the hole after the hockey game clue to the lack of financial support. "The polio fund didn't make a cent," he said this morning, "and RZ. Tour Nears Close the first Canadian legation. He was a friend of the last four United States presidents. A tall, slim and scholarly man, Mr. Wrong was one of Canada's most polished and seasoned dio-lomats. He died of a heart ailment. SUCCEEDED PEARSON- Mr. Wrong, a native of Toronto who graduated from and later taught history at the University of Toronto, became ambassador to the United States in 1946. He succeeded Mr. Pearson, with whom he entered the external affairs department ln 1927. Last July, Mr. Wrong was --"ot"ted undersecretary, but he took a long holiday in Furor, assuming his new post Nov. 1. He entered hospitai two weeks later as a result of a heart attack. He appeared to be making a rood recovery, but a seem-") attack sent him back to hospital Saturday. if we didn't make up the differ ence out of club funds, the polio Goodwin 10.03. ' Zealand (Reu-Wizabeth und Uie U1r'ih arrived by Second period: Prince Rupert, fund would be less than what Three Injured Three persons suffered injuries in accidents over the weekend. Six-year-old Allan Wllmot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Wil-mot, 740 West Seventh Avenue, was injured when he collided with a car on Sixth Avenue West between Musgrove- Place and Taylor Street about 4:15 yesterday. Injured out at Lake Oliver yesterday was Smithers hockey player Don Huntington, who-suffered a fractured jaw. and Michael Bartlett, son of Mr. an-i Mrs. Eugene Bartlett, 1177 Ambrose, who suffered a broken erm while skating. D. Hill 1.20: Smithers, Robinson (Kilpatrieki 3.40: Smithers. Robinson (Kllpatrick) 4.10; Smithers. Williams (Watson) 9.45. Third period: Smithers, Huntington (Oulton) 3.50: Prince Rupert, Hill (Petrow) 10.11; Smlth- E-lrw.l,l,u..t 111-;- CmilhaK we started with." Expenses for the game which drew such a large crowd out to Oliver Lake, were $250 for Smithers, $38 for miscellaneous labor to get the rink in shape, printing of ticket $15; advertising $15. pltar ?ursts train ut the Scots-proud city of Dunedin today to begin the last ! week of the royal tour in New ; Zealand. i The Queen und the duke will be here until Thursday. Two days I later they leave from Bluff for ! Australia to continue their t'oiiimnnwealth lour in the royal liner Oothic. ! The couple travelled by train 1 130 miles southward from Tlm- nue The Kinsmen are still hoping that the Pre-game ticket sales Rupert Petrow W: pnce Ru- R J".' -' - Police may cut down the losses some- pert. Hill, 18.09. i in air what but indications today were and j ''I el, naiges with 1 i. I.. r BALLOT BALLOT THE ALEX HUNTER AWARD FOR GOOD CITIZENSHIP Please consider my nomination of: . x : x ru, where a hospital patient in an iron lung was among the thousands of spectators who waved them farewell. The Queen, rested and refreshed lifter a week-end in seclusion at the seaside estate lent to her by a local millionaire, wore a two-piece dreS8 of Cambridge blue silk shantung, with white shoes and a small hut swatched in dark blue chiffon. TENUS CRYING CHILD The train made severul stops along the way. At Palmerston, "uto crowd of J "' 11 ""iptlng to 'i"lmssy here '""""-"U in. 10-",k -h rocks At injured . ' s Were ,)ru. , , .."'" 'lined poS-hmg sought in Muv ha ''Ho iiew ac- that the revenue wpuld be nowhere in the vicinity of $150. Mayor George E. Hills congratulated Smithers hockey team's cantaln, Gordon Hether-ington after the interior squad's victory and presented him with the Kaien Island trophy. The mayor, who also welcomed the Smithers team at the opening of the game, faced off the first puck. The Rmlthers captain said he hoped the game would be an ar"-"Hl event. The game, played In a biting wind, was fast throughout and , I the duke, himself father of two or in, , !..., i ..... .... . . - d for the outstanding citizen of Prince Rupert for the year 1953 My NAME . My ADDRESS ' '. I...'...'.... BLAZE, a 14-month-old Weimaraner owned by Mayor J. T. I saw Prince Rupert vainlv trviiuf i iwn ,, ""'u-u : omuu i-niiuren, tried to conuorl 'y fur vl'UM;' Ulc I a weeping three-year-old boy. - on Ih,. i ,, , ' uurc ocni aown ana sum McCormick of Jncksonvillc Beach. Fla., could get to be a problem. ' to cut down the big Smithers lead He's learned to ring the back-door bell when he wants to get I ln the dying minutes of the J into the house, and lie's kind of heavy-handed. On one of his i -!aln'S;., i ui " gently: - "Come on, old chap. Madrid cr-mj . . BALLOT n -lellverert ! -heer up." But the little lad kept DALLOT Fill in and return to the DAILY NEWS not later than FEBRUARY 4, 1954 uii nr. n th-it j on crying, unmoved by the royal trips indoors, Blaze tinkles the bell (lefti and then impatiently Deeks through the louvered door for an answer to his summons. i -'iiiners loos a first period m lead on a neat goal by Goodwin ! nnd shortly after the start of the f occasion. ' seucitude