f?.ovi:i:ia'l lis? ah. Urrows t siaiidurU Time) 1 ROYAL CANADIAN SEA CADETS PARADE TONIGHT NAVY DRILL HALL Recruits must be 11 years old. "Building Citizenship" nine 4, 1954 I Jay. 21.6 feet 19.2 feet 1.5 feet 7.3 feet 3:06 16:11 9:48 ' 21:56 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. 129 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS Pilot Dead, Two Kurt if) tin, - . yy . .. ..: . tl ill ' As Aircraft Downed VIENNA (CP) A Belgium' freight plane was shot up by another plane today near the Yugoslav-Austrian frontier, and its radio officer killed. Two of the surviving crew members described the attaek-;ng plane as a Russian-made MIG possibly from Agreement On Truce Unlikely Mofotov Plugs For Red Agent . By MAX HAKKELSON GENEVA (AP) Western and Communist delegates wrestled today with Hungary i, i r ! o a j ) ? ' j The plane was reported to I C,, m-.l D--- jcvcicii rial id PXKSKVTATIVKS of the sports and athletic world stand as a guard of honor by the i Lionel Conacher, of Toronto, one of Canada's great sportsmen. They are: (left to r,mn Camera, former world heavyweight champion; Mervyn (Red) Dutton, former lot the Nntional Hockey League; Tommy Gorman, Ottawa sports promoter; Dr. Jack Toronto Maple Leafs International Lsrue. baseball team: Jack Corcoran, Toronto romoter: Roy Worters, former goalie with the old NVw York Americans of the NHL. Made Attack have suffered considerable damage. It made a successful belly landing on the airfield at Graz, Austria, and came to rest at the end of the field, near some weeds. Asserts Pilot eral Chief Assails Socrecls Armed British military police BELGRADE, Yugoslavia ( cordon The Belgian legation here said immediately threw a new deadlock over the I thorny question .of Red participation in the policing of an Indo-China arm around It. Graz is in the British today the Belgian , transport Stand on PGE, Labor Act il Credit Oovern- felt the government was no! the Peace River, but could no j istice. Agreement on this ,111011 nil WUIIVIIHII B Yt'IJT llttlJpj' WJtll It, HI1U Illlllt. hUipUIL UIC MUMIKTH l'. Il.OH M , plane forced to land at Graz, Austria, had been shot at by "several" Soviet Russian fighter planes. The legation attache, Jacques Gerard, said he had been given the information by the pilot of a second Belgian transport which zone of Austria. j Three press photographers who j tried to get pictures had their j cameras confiscated. The Belgian transport was a I twin-engined DC-3 carrying pedigreed pigs from Britain to Belgrade. Yugoslavia. It had a .on (or fishermen, the still drop it. which he est .muled would cost I pomi appears icmoie. ait and the POE rail- Mr. Laing also blasted Premier about $18 million. The deadlock developed at Wednesday's closed-door meeting at the Far Eastern confer idiculcd last night by Bennett for his vacillation on the , ... , , .... , .... ' ... . Leader Arthur Laing question of PGE extension or a " r.sun, on provincial affairs highway to link Vancouver and ; A highway from Vancouver to crew of four-three Belgians and la"dt?f tltLt The two planes i "AND FURTHERMORE. . . .""I think you've treated Sweetie meeting In the Civic Squamtsh. The premier he sail. Sqnainish would open up Gari- were flying to ence when Russia insisted that the Communists must be represented on any truce supervision commission. The Western pow a Briton. The dead radio operator was a Belgian, as were the ,had announced he would build bawi park, witn l's hugs Social Credit gov- the railway, then had said he tential tourist attraction and Belgrade with pedigreed pigs from Britain. Both pianes are part of the Sabena airlines fleet. Gerard said the pilot of the hf weakest In the his-I wou,a DUlla lne roaa, ana as n wuum tu.ii nuuui usm uumun. pilot and a mechanic, both injured. The British co-pilot, uninjured, said the attacking plane was a MIG jet fighter, and an nrnvlnei." Mr r.rilnn'"OW SianOS, apparently planned "e icunai suicnun, .m u.iv ers demanded exclusion of Red representatives. Russia's foreign minister Mol-otov reflected the gravity of the tn nrnvldp mnrk- , both. Face and myself pretty shabbily, one might even say you've led us a dog's life. Other Siamese we've known have been allowed to sleep in chairs, on couches, or downy beds, but us what do we sleep in? A common wicker basket!" The two tabbies are obviously concerned with something or other and are setting the j record straight. The pair of Siamese cats .reside in Paris. I Road, Track Repairs Rushed offered to develop the paik if the B.C. government would provide .niinn for all fish- The Liberal party, he said, plane that came to Belgrade intercepted a message from its companion craft saying that Soviet "fighters" were attacking. ' .... .iu l ippocii injured Belgian told a similar story. inexcusable. As .the ! "B'eeu an yiupiwcu .-iicimii he said, some!0' tne railway north-cast into See I.IBLP.AL C1I1KF Page 5 unds EMERGENCY LANDING problem when he told the con- j lerence it will be difficult to i reach agreement on truce super- j visory machinery unless Com-1 munists are represented on the are covered one day! The DC-3, hit on the left side next V BLINDtR j by cannon fire at perhaps 6,000 feeet, made an emergency landing after the British, co-pilot j proposed agency. Anulher difficulty arose when Halibut Exchange Business, Continues Light, Prices Dip th new labor act an. J r- of' the lneKper- T.nient, he said that, it would dump every Business at the Prince Rupert i some of the larger vessels may After Log-Train Derailed Cause of a derailment or nine the 'road "block. " t- cars of a logging train on the I A pubic works spokesman in-Canadian National line between diiattcd that once the logs were Salvas and Exstew. 67 miles east cleared from the highway little of Prince Rupert yesterday af- trouble would be encountered in tcrnoon, has not yet been 'de- getting the road back in shape. tcrmined, CN officials reported,- ,Kf lH . , Last night eastbound passen- .' . , , ' gers were taken out by taxi, T. It is expected, however, that at transferring the scene of the temporary measures will see mishap to the train which was mpiuyee mspuio m iiuiibut Exchange continued to bo going south to sell their government. The k,, sHEht today as only two full catches at Vancouver and Seat- Hham van Diiit vice-premier of he Communist-led Vlctmlnh. ircliirod thHt I he proixised neutral supervisory commission should be given only one task, controlling- the entry of arms and troops from the outside. IHFFICl LTIES SKKIOLS The new diiiiculties are re i worked for years to I days Df the first halibut season look" 20 minutes to fly it back tc Graz airfield. The injured were taken to hospital. One of the injured. Arscne De-vreese, also said he believed the attacker was a MIG. Devreese had two cannon fragments in his right shoulder. H( was taken to hospital at Graz. The dead radio operator ant" the other Injured airmen are be. Ins' 'held 'in the care of British if negotiatlon-concili-1 remain. , I..K... .nl..ll,.... I,n .I, n iauiiiu, ii itvo American vessels, une government should I fr0in Area 2 and one from Area tit as far as possible : 3.A landed their catches at the tit. The first halibut season for Areas 2 and 1-B will terminate at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. June 5 and these two areas will be closed to halibut fishing until the second season opens at 12:01 a.m. Saturday Augo.it 1. .The second season will close nt 11:59 p.m. August 8. f rnal contest between . Exchange at prices slightly low- brought down from Terrace. Westbound passengers who were na employee, instead: I er than yesterday's1 1954 high of 4 IHMlllMiy. I t " "" "' " ' i, brought in, to Prince Rupert by air .authorities on Graz' Thaler-Cab also, were delayed only about' hof airfield," where . the plane an hour a CN spokesman siad. landed. Credit government ! 18.5 cents. They were the Car-i right into the mid-! 0len, fishing Area 2. with a catch "iite.4 of 34.1MHI pounds and the Travcl- Ihc in w act hud noljlcr Iroin Area 'J-A with a catch .iiued as vet. and he,' of 53,000 pounds. In addition. garded as serious in view of the importance attached to the. policing problem Western diplomats have insisted from the beginning that there can be no cease-fire unless there is a truly i neutral body to supervise im-! plementation of the- agreements j reached in Geneva. Western officials argue tliat ; Communist countries can not be ; neutral in a dispute where on , of the parties is Communist. I KS , llmill WM both Highway 16, which was blocked by spilled logs, and the main line back In operation again by late afternoon, Trackmei, combined with men from Columbia Cellulose, Shoag-land Logging and Department of Public Works crews worked through the night to clear the line. New track, is being laid along the road and it is expected that all the logs will be salvaged into cars spotted along the temporary track. Girl Remanded In Boy's Death bRIG. E. V McCL'SKER, 55, director of the medical arts clinic at Regina, has been appointed honorary colonel commandant of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Howard Says Bennett Plans "McBride-Bowser Patronage" Special to The Dally News , is spuriously passing himself off SMITHERS Local residents as the representative of the gov-today heard Skeena MLA Frank ernment." IS. Black Auxiliary the Jeannettc. landed ii.uuu pounds at the Co-Op. The Carolen's catch which went to Atlin Fisheries Included 20,000 pounds ol medium, sold at 17.4 cents, 10.000 pounds of large, sold at 16.B cents and 4.000 pounds or chicken sold at 14.5 cents. Landed by the Traveller and VANCOUVER 0? Eighteen-year-old Mary Victoria Mellish Wednesday was rcmumled one week for preliminary hearing of a charge that she murdered her boy friend, Sam Me.ser, 22, un- Howard accuse Premier Bennett i "However," he concluded, "if of setting up the basis of a "cor- this government continues to In the derailment three of the :iN 0 Mrs. J. 8. line Kujicrt has been "iillent of the B.C. t-'Rion Ladies' Auxil- final organizational cars crashed the embankment sold to B.C. Packers were 33.000 rupt system of patronage such carry on its business strictly Kitimat Designated Liquor Area ana enaea up paruy suomergea i as is parallelled only by the . through the party, it won't taks the electors long to realize the in the Skeena River. ! MrRHrie-Ru;ser rimp "re Wednesday of the Pacific Command ex- "Premier Bennett is out to rottenness of such a program." pounds of medium at 17.3 cents employed plasterer. May 25. and 20,000 pounds of large sold I Miss Mellish said nothing in a at 16.9 cents. j brief police court appearance Fisheries officials believe that j before Magistrate Oscar Orr. smaller boats fishing Areas 2 and ! An inquest into Messer's death 3-A are waiting to bring In as has been tentatively set for Fri-blg a load as possible, while day. At the same time, a temporary by-pass of planking is being constructed on the CNR grade for some 500 feet to get around channel all public business, through th Social Credit party ! Sunshine Quota Up From May '53 The month of May this year came up with more total hours of sunshine for Prince Rupert, but the sun was not able to come up to last year's high for the month, according to the Dominion Weather Station on Digby Island. There were 125.5 hours of sunshine last month as comnared to 110.1 in May W53. but the hifh of 69 degrees tills yetr on th May 8 and 9 missed by six degrees May 1953's top tempera- VICTORIA Wj The vlllitge o. Kitimat, eight miies from the Aluminum Company of Canada j and treat the elected members . I as a necessary evil to be spurned smelter site, is included In 26 WEATHER as much as possible," said How new licencing areas designated pvpiitiun. the Legion for many Black is past presl-wrh 27 Women's Aux-has been a member vieml executive for 'iff years, holding the 'W-presldcnt for tile ars. tiding the convention .Duncan, president of Ladies' Auxiliary, by the B.C. Liquor Control Board Henning Erickson Dies Suddenly Henning Erickson, 57, of 836 Eraser Street died suddenly yesterday afternoon at Prince Rupert General Hospital. Mr. Erickson was born in Sweden and has been in Prince Rupert district for the past 11 years. yesterday. The areas include the muni hird. Forecast "Fur instance," lie declared, North coast region:- cloudy "whenever I have requested in-vith showers today and Friday, formation from the top brass in jittle change in temperature. ' the public works department, I Wind easterly 15 today, light to- have either been referred to the norrow. Low tonight and high defeated Social Credit candidate Friday at Port Hardy and Prince or have been completely refused cipalities of Oak Bay and Es quimalt in the Greater Victoria area and the district of North Vancouver and muncipalities of There are no known survivors ture of 75. West Vancouver and Burnaby in 58. Rupert 48 and Sandspit 48 an answer. In addition, the de-1 and funeral arrangements have the greater Vancouver area. son Rites and 55. feated Social Credit candidate i not yet been announced. Rainfall for May 1954 WPS down, 3.12 inches falling over a 23-day period as compared to 4.57 inches in 20 days last year. Mean temperature this y?ar was down slightly at 49.8 degrees in comparison to last year's morrow. The complete list of designated areas is as follows: Alext Bay, Chapman Camp, Cranberry Lake, Fort St. John, Pouce Coupe, Tofino, Ucluelet. Warfield, Taadanac, West Vancouver, The electoral district of Columbia (with the exception of the township of Windermere.) Saturday .,;''v. If irn i t 1 r,''-:'V . . .- ' . . ,' ,: -r. ( I - - May mean of 51.05 degrees. The lowest temperature of the month was recorded -on May 1, when the mercury slipped to freezing, five degrees below lat May's low. Maximum wind velocity for last month was recorded on M 'y 18 when a southeast wind reach ed 21 miles an hour. rviccs for Mrs. Ar-'itfon. who died yes-"ince uipert General he held tomorrow jC Undertakers at 8 rites, In part, con- ;et Hie auspices of the 'ar. "1 Itakc place in Ter-' The Rev. Dr. E. Presbyterian mlnls-, 'narge. The funeral HI leave Prince District of Burnaby, the township of Chilliwack, Coldstream, Esquimau, the district of Glen-more, district of Kent, Kitimat, Matsqul, district of North Vancouver, Oak Bay, Peachland, Salmon Arm, Spallumacheen, Sum-as and Summerland. tow b J x. ill, I (i i I j Terrace Woman Dies in Rupert Long-time Terrace resident, Mrs. Viney Chapman, wife of Walter Chapman died at the Prince Rupert General Hospital yesterday evening after two weeks illness at the age of 55 years, Mrs. Chapman was born In England and she and her husband have lived In Terrace for 30 'years. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. Victim Vote on School To Be Repeated PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. 0) Ratepayers in School District 57 here will be asked to vote again June 11 on a $2,000,000 schools expansion program. The original by-law defeated by a narrow vote ,ln a referendum earlier this year. School board officials say voters misunderstood advance publicity given the by-law. ''ER rv,,.,., its 38th victim of ," Vancouver Wednes- w the discovery of HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Rocky Marciano (left) and challenger Ezzard Charles pound away during training sessions In their respective camps. Marciano, In training at Gtossinger, N.Y., has received orders to eat more to get his weight back up to 190 pounds. He had been cutting down on calories to build up speed. Charles, who's at Montlcello, N.Y., is fast going through a string of sparring partners. The to meet in a title buut Juntt 17. , , COSTUMED AS "Priest and Nun," six-year-olds Qary Brown and their ice-cream cones. The Janet Sue Burke concentrate on youngsters had performed during graduation ceremonies at St John's Convent School in Washington, DC, mid now. that their chores are over they take their refreshment wholeheartedly " '""Uiingiiouse.