PROV nL 1 ... - ORMES-- pMORROW'S I -TIDE5- i(i,y January 27. 1103 t , ,. s Jlunl Tiine DAILY DELIVERY 0.1.1 H3 feet NOUTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER H 44 20 2 feet 5 44 8 9 feet Published of Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greot Northwest" Phone 81 i lit 33 3 9 feet " VOL. XLII, No. 20 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS . . s . . i - v&- ware ti an in ifr-H,.... - tail n ii !. "'V J : ' L - A r v -1 eaches iyansh aff How o) sA u illagers Cut Crew Members Weep For Plane v niTi-ymanj bjLf i: As Ship Heels Over By The CnfuiJi Prrai LIVERPOOL. Grimy firemen early today sig- fr Harold Kd-i I 'lV . . - 1 1 I 4 T1 j nailed they had control of a blaze which in 15 hours j (1f Queen Charlotte delivered a full f mail to the poster ' "- at A iyansh. Indian destroyed the 20,233-ton liner Empress of Canada. I 2"-" h. 1 I ,y ,,n t!ic HIM"'1' 'aa y ' vr, Sauinlay itfti-r- , - V ' ' A brief message sent to head- - j quarters a dawn broke said night to prevent flames reach- ,niy a small pocket of fire re- ing other ships and pier-side ; rnained forward of the funnels buildings. of the Canadian Pacific Ktcor - Man- crew member's stood iips luxury trans-Atlantic ves-; weeping beside them as the ship ! went through her death throes. Dense clouds of smoke still t she heeled over on her side, ; rc.M- into thj early-morning sky gtlll blazing furiously, 9'2 hours l. r ti: Empress of Canada a Total Loss as the 25-year-old ship, her nie after the fire began The liner came to Gladstone Clunliiiat, , i, his return, ilinf n hnrj ci,! a; Lnh- in t ivi-r : ( J! XJ AUttA, lip llouIUi U' o d In to Prliitf ; Dock Saturday after returning ' to Liverpool from Canada on Jan. 12. RODERICK HAIG-BROWN of Campbell River, B.C., (right) outhor angler - turned - movie - star, and Robert Anderson, National Film Board producer, examine through a "Moviola" in the cutting room at Ottawa the film story "The Country Magistrate." Noted Author Makes Picture From Book Famed Writer of life Begins at Forty' Walter B. Pitkin, Dies in California , at an end, lay on her port siae, ; propellors out of the water, like ; a huge, half-submerged whale. A company official termed the ' i5.000.000 ship, being spruced uo ; for this year's Coronation traf-i flee, a "total loss." ! -J.Jt I! CP) Wal-1 fields, including the art of sound author of picture production, aeronautics, successful i boat building and farming. PALO ALTO, Calif tcr Boughton Pitkin, the phenomenally impetus to many jaded American business men, and IU title became a household phrase. It was translated into 12 languages with over 500,000 sales. Spring Election Forecast By Pro-Con Leader l n( Hie villasrri Ihrn the plan'. Iirlprd ih Ihr idnij. ml rrhnrd and iri Ktlh Ihr rfew. d( nan o uvrrjovrd l irrn il ( thr Jirrafl. lht I'kOIIK SABOTAGE Police said sabotage could ntt be ruled out tn their search fo the cause of the blaze. The fire is believed to have started tn the dispensary or the ! OTTAWA tf-RKlerlck Halg-'Bron of Cample-ll River. BC, Awsorlatbin award in 1946 for Starbur k Valley Wtiit T " ar.d the Oovernor-Oeneral'g citation for Saltwater Summer" in 1948. Mr. H.ilB-Biown ha lived In book, "Life Begins at Forty." died Sunday after a brief Illness at the age of 75. He was In the midst of writing another book, "Let's Enjoy Life Again."- It frequently was said of uM tn noliif Ihr magllratr, finhetman and auth-li..m d.r tif-r ami ml jor u ,.lklng a crack at picture ...nrtperlHr l-p. jm(k).lg TORONTO (CP) Dean Finlay- pantry. No passengers were aboard , He Joined the staff of Columbia University in New York City in 1905 as a lecturer in psychology, becoming professor of Journalism in 1912. and retired In 1943 after 38 years on the faculty. From the Columbia campus the volatile Pitktn made his forays into the literary, economic and political worlds. "son, leader of the British Co- !hp Kmnrex Canada RundaV Campbell Kiver to 20 years. BrltUh-born He Is married to an American, MADE GOOD BEFORE 40 Another of his book titles, "Making Good Before Forty" (1939), was equally applicable to his own life. Teaching and writing were never r-iourli to absorb all the energies of the ebullient Pit li-.) tH-ctl Ofl.l.ru a, Xh 4..,rw,M. L m i i. ..l.i i Iiimhta PnmrrpuittP rtinKprvatiVe v .i.i tunable i nigni wnen me lire orone oui. , ... Wkl,r pfticin that his The few crew members on the ! party, said he believes a federal ; energ.pVc JiT!L !J . f?- of writer, novelis' and the former Ann F.!:wre of Se- nun lifp confirmed the title win oe cauea iius hjs booR ,.ufc at Forty election spring. His books, mostly on popular I For the "omni-opinlonated' fained fly flherman Is working suit, wbah.. aim "as lour cimu- , shjp pseappd fcB((.ly. on the final pliaw of a nutlt.nal ren. One of tlu m, 1 1 -year-old ; FlrfmPn poured tons of water film b.rd short. "The Country Alan, appears bnelly in the film, j ,nUj lhc Rhjp u tnrough the MaLrratc." The story. Intended primarily - . kin. He made surveys of news- :i,.ii;y biR Willie is, v r:e i.i.;- 't ', It: t V ! lllMT : vliifh Caplalnj ii) i psychology and of the career- Finiay-1 Pitkin as he once termed him In an interview here variety, made hu name paper r eaae e ownea ana books uplift so .said the Liberal government i self-published 30 or more The story of the fUm was taken for European distribution, Is fitim hl Ixink ' Measure of the ilrnnle. telli.iE th evervtiav i l .. . :.. - ,. Ufter hi3 40th birthday and still a laminar one au over me tns- He served as story supervisor tor Be wont dare wall unui lau. . m.OM ,akp an BCtiVe in- Ush-speaking world. "Ufe u ,uiH v,a nnoor Ihp nvern- " - .. 41932) . . gave new ! tercst in a score of diverse ; gins . at Forty' . merit waits, the worse its posl- '1't1'" fc( Year." He and producer-writer events tit the life of a country) ' Robert Anderson of the CBC nwKtstra'.c. In oi:e scet.j h ho'of her t i Ihej workrd on the crlpl and filming court on a pier of the fUihing plaiies arc ,(,,,- ihree months in Campbell village 1 Whites Ask Action After Family Slain rV, a.l I Uon becomes. I I He predicted the Conservatives j wonld win most of the 22 seaU. in his province., j I Rivti before coming Jiere. Ail trw M'f l,CiltWWH ft -bound aircraft ! Mr. ifaig'Uruwn. Even the RCMP officers are authentic As direc tM, OS STMr. AMI' !CII Mr Halg Brown ai-Li In I ! ' hp i.iuip uu;,t of the ii 'v s'orm lo no plaiw In TV ! v. ;,s tor Anuprw i put i.. n.iu i-.jluu play the part of a policeman belter than a policeman'" picture the country magistrate-. Proficient In bth capacl-il tlw tall, lean snortma-i NAIROBI. Kenya t About 1 500 white settlers marched to Universal Pictures In 1929 and wrote a book about it, "The Art of Sound Pictures'" (with Viil-Ham M. Marston 19301. He even triHtle a tuti? of Woodrow Wii- 'son's health and concluded that "low energy and bad feet" played a part In frustrating the Wllsonian program. Mr. Pitkin had a keen mind and a sardonic humor. He wiis p o 1 i t i c a 1 1 y conservative at d sometimes called himself a "social misfit" but more often "a man without a culture." More ' than once he said that what the United States needed was "a rabble rouser of the right." Mr. Pitkin was born at Ypsi- Rail Heads, Union Meet A i .v l'".'.r.t.(i in Encland years aeo "to ; Government House today and j demanded to talk to Governor lit Alimlte fr,,m .lirulno" Is k : f,,nl .rt ntirlna ttlvint t hp HRiilar lllehl i nmnlvll River Catholics Urged Reserve RCAF Pilot Survives Second Crash in Two Months VANCOUVER O An RCAF reserve pilot Sunday walked away from his second plane wreck In two months. FO. Charles Dodwell of Vancouver suffered only shock and a cut head when his Mustang flgKter crashed near Van- " couver International Airport shortly after take-off. Dodwell, member of the RCAF 443 New Westminster Squadron, survived a wing tip collision between two Vampire Jets Nov. 9 over Boundary Bay. 30 miles south of Vancouver FO. William Ross was killed in the collision when his jet exploded. Dodwell managed to fly back to the airport. In Sunday's crack-up Dodwell's was one of five planes taking off. Engine trouble is believed to be the cause of the crack-up. i'l Q"A liud no I look over the Job 10 years To Prepare for ago when they offered It to me after no one else wanted It,' he said by way of explanation. A native of Lansing. Sussex. j brutal slaying oi a British family, A SIS'! in Xrlnt ' Saturday night. ' AMU 111 I UUUJ j Farmer Roger E, Ruck, his jwtfe Esme. a doctor, and Uieir MONTREAL 0j Canada's rail-1 six-year-old son, Michael, were ways and the Brotherhood of ; found hacked to -death at their Railway Tralnment were sched-; Ntwth Klnangop farm in tlie uled to meet again today in an iAberdare mountains noih of effort to settle the country-wide Mr. Halg-Brown came to Canada : Early Election ' lanti. Mich., Feb. 6, 1878. but when 18 after working six months In the Unlted'States. He worked The BrKLsh Nairobi. wage strike set lor reo. i. a s!mttft'U jabotage suspected n Wrecks In Vancouver Island logRing camps from ,926 unUl J jd - ""M tween carriers ami the BRT. h'.r? hU nrS Ck wr -'n ?utho" ti prepare for , In connection with the crime, which represents 35.000 trainmen. .rttini "It election. mast brutal against Europeans The brotherhood set the strike provincial Whi the book I n , e Js wan.-, ro!iti- since the Mau Mau terror sect date more than a week : ago. . "Our K-tatlon worked orKd as as an an extra extra in m B o. ltLh i. 1 "no reasonable settle- the value emergency began last Septem- pending films ana a snort svon.-s u, -'-',. ' -,. iUlrl Rl2. 1 per. ment" of their demands. - Discovery of eep alive. Since then he lias written 10 inald Paxton. executive si cu t i ,,, i i i i ii in i losed aiiRle cock i New B.C. Record Set Issuing 301 Oil Exploration Permits VICTORIA 0 The biggest oil , next, then Fort Fraser. Lillooct land rush In British Columbia's j Prince George and Fernie. ... .., On Vancouver Island, there are recorded in 19d2, ac-58 history was 6gg acres untJer license cording tp government statistics jor leace or application, in the released today. j Alberni area and 54,462 on the spent most of his youth in Detroit. He earned spending money In many ways sorting beans, weeding onions, delivering eggs, cleaning type. He often rode his bicycle 100 miles a day. As a young man he worked at various times as a peddler, cook, cattle boss and junkman. He found time to be the American managing editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1927 to 1928. The Institute of Life Planning was founded by him in 1932. MAROONED ON ICE FLOE ! His busy mind also took an inventive bent. For 10 years he experimented in the construc t'f.f taSve nn a New Haven books, countless snnn siorirs h:kj j The asMKialion, u hlle It docs bi-come a world-famed anaier. He won the Car.ndlan Library not Intend to sponsor Us own candidal". Is o.-mUniilng its campaign to have Catholic schools bfmmht tn'o the provincial edticnt'on svstem We want The netroleum and natural ! soutnern ena oi ic uiu. li:tt within nine flays :' r ;?v .UK.itlun heie. '"' li ,'.' n -.piikesinan said 1 ' k -js - cu. found Frl-m its proper position" ' -n! ,;,r f the Boston- Y.i.k -New Yorker." The " ("MtK.is tlie air brakes, 1 appan-nt Instance of tampering involved the " Police With Tommy Guns Guard Bandits branch year-end compila- eas that lntemratl'm." ! Under the present BC. educa-1 tlon sy?t, m. separate schools do not receive government financial ) tion showed a record 301 explora New Boiler support. The Catholic Education Asso-clution has said It Is willing for Connected tion permits were issued last year. These permits covered an area of 13.833.338 acres, more than 3.000,000 acres above the 1951 total. The 1952 rush came in the wake of the Fort St. John natural gas r k r- n-to-WusnliiHton i nucciin ki.Hv n Police the uovernmciife to take over At Hospital tion of a 98-foot, four-keeled boat. The boat was for research work in tropical waters and was estimated to have cost $100,000. It was given a maiden voyage test run in the ice-choked Hudson River near Ncwburgh, N.H.. on Dec. 31, 1939. The New Year's Ec sailing was a disastrous one because ice ripped the South discoveries In November, 1951. j LOUIS A. LAPOINTE ROBINSON ORB First of two 50-horsepower boiler1 units being Installed in Prince Rupert General Hospital ' .1. T l8 0 iv .-AH ft v ft t - ; H -A 3 i. ",ral rXlress" which crash-iwtin tommy-guns swarmed Roman Catholic separate Schools '''' V"' -lilnnton Union Sta- around pBlmeros central court but with certain "safcmianls" J 'n 1 mid Injured some 50 today as 40 bandits went on trial such as Homun Catholic teachers ns for murder, kidnapping, ftrmod in ceMul i subJecU and certain "net inM;,,),,. of brake tarn- holdup and sundry thefts. txtbooks. "' riimrted Thursday. They are remnants of a btimi In the June provincial elcl Ion. "!!' Chin lis w. Tobey. 'of the brigand King Balvatore eight Roman Catholic candidates ' i i .hi i,i t1P senate Com-' oiullano. killed two years ago In rnn under the banner of the ' immti. c. he said It a police war agaltist bandit who Christian Democratic party. None ns 1" look like sabotage." terrorized Sicily after the war. .was elected. Cellulose Company Appoints went into service Saturday. i thT Officials said id the the ni old old r : American hardwood huil ; ann hnttpr boiler I p.vm .nri There are now 34.5 i, 616 acres of BC, . land under oil exploration permit, with 564 permits in effect, Officials said most of the desirable acreage has been taken up and even some undesirable areas. will be taken out as soon as the new unit has been thoroughly' tested. I two companions, wiih only a few soggy sandwiches for com- Hfiirro nn an !p flftf Montreal Man New Secretary Administrator Doug Stevenson '""' "Xh hvTtuV after said "so far it has , worked i MONTREAL) Appointment of Chemical Company In St. Louis. Missouri before taking over his lawyer Says Paper Privileged they sent SOS signals with splendidlv." The second unit will Government records show the two senior executives to position be Installed as soon as passible in Canadian Chemical ti Cellulose great growth of oil and gas exploration in the province. The new boilers are being put Company, Limited and subsidiary o Criticize Public Servants At the end of 1949, tnere were flashlight. ----- Sadly, the hard-working Pitkin, conscious of life's every oassing minute, commented that the time he put Into the ship was "worth a quarter of a million dollars." In to Increase boiler capacity and provide more economic operation at the hospital. companies was announced today by Maxwell M. Mackenzie, Execu only 2.377.940 acres under exploration permit, with 22 per been Instructed to appeal the verdict. mit. Bv the end or 1950, tnis new post. From 1930-1938 he was tn charge of Monsanto's Export Department. Mr. Lapointe, born in Montreal, has been associated with civic government In Canada's largest city since 1935. Canadian Chemical & Cellulose Company, Limited, incorporated recently, ts the parent company for three operating units, Columbia Cellulose Com The iurv took two hours to had zoomed to 10.521.203 acres. reach Its unanimous verdict. U.KVIU.E. Out. (CPI-To- " '''-''r H R. McMurtry n,'Mapors have a prlvl- 1,1111 a duty to criticize per-in lllic life and to make ,).n,"" iu Public affairs. ' ,u "'hid that the time will -WEATHER- Showery weather with tern-ncratures at, or a little above Courier-Advocate, and Owyn Hopkln-Morgan, editor, for defamatory libel. The suit is based on two editorials which appeared In the paper Dec. 7, 1951. The first editorial was captioned. "A Jekyli and Hyde in Council," and the second, "Let tive Vice-President. Louis A. Lapointe, QC, former director of departments for Montreal, has been named secretary of Canadian Chemical St Cellulose Company Limited. Robinson Ord. who has been prominent in the chemical In with 106 permits. At the end of 1951, the total was 20.744,280 20.744.280 acres, and 263 permits. Blggest.centre of activity is in the Peace River area, Quesnel is After the Judge's 65-minute charge, Mr. McMurtry objected to what he said were serious omissions from the address. He claimed the charge had not been Convict Breaks From Oakalla VA-N""OWER m A. 29-year- freezing resulted. Snowflurrles were reported from many points Ml 11 W(, ViuVO mnolu. pany. Limited, Here. Canadian ;h.-u in the interior. Forecast i w ,papcrs which will old convict serving a one-year Us Protect Our Liberty." Botn fairly presented, in his address to the jury, Mr Chemical Company, Limited, at Edmonton, and Celgar Development Company Limited, In the the paper three ; ' express their appeared in McMurtry said it was the duty oiuu ivir Trenton electors in Arrow 'Lakes district. of the press to scrutinize men dustry for the past 20 years, is now vice-president of, Canadian Chcmicat & Cellulose Company, Limited and vice-president and general manager of Canadian Chemical Company Limited. Mr, Ord, a native of Sunderland, England, and a graduate of ice K At the present time, the com A. Tlimiu - c. ' . . . j,.J 4n who offered themselves lor puo iiu u ou-1 vnip iwr HvH n wns ufiiavcu lie office and to criticize, them pany Is producing acetate grade Italian Plane Crash Kills 19 ' CAGLIARA., Sardinia (CP) Nineteen persons died today when a twin-engined Italian airliner crashed into a mountain near here shortly after taking off for Rome. .'"in jry , a $100u0 h,s bW f(jr a 13lh u,m on coun North coast region: Variable sentence lor rooDery wnn viouw cloudiness with scattered showers ! escaped from Oakalla prison farm of rain tn the southern part and j last night, snow tn the northern part Little Bert Nash was sentenced about change in temperature. Wind i a month ago in Trail, B.C. southerly 15. Low tonight and Warden Hugh Christie said high Tuesday at Port Hardy. 30 Nash was working in a bouer-and 40; Sandoplt and rrlnco room of Oakaala when he slipped Rupert, 28 and 38. lout and escaped. if it felt it was doing so tn the sulphite pulp and sawn luniDer, and with completion of the Ed- cil. The paper wa found guilty nubile interest. Oxford University, was' general , moiitun plant this year will b? "k Ait'iiinn 20 miles west of manager of sales for the Organic gin production of acetate yarn He said a verdict for the plaintiff would be "putting a nail in the coffiiunf truth." s suing j. Nolun glssloni however, and Mr. Ryan was awarded $1,000 damages and costs. Mr. McMurtry said lie had Chemiculs Division of Monsanto land couunerclal chemicals. HIP tWlp.tl-ntlr