t,r-- .5.. SORROW'S ORMES- ;-V(. U 1 TIDES mmim iPoily Delivery v standard Time) vi2i::a. 2. c. ' r - ' , day. June 5, lM 1 :c54 20.3 feet 17:00 186 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Phone 81 22:49 10 31 2.7 7.9 feet feet Published or Canada's Most Strategic Pocific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greot Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 130 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS DRUGS n mm n n n o n nnn n vzs & ji pji A mm mmmmm mm m mJL, ... , Report To Be Made To Rally Tomorrow 'VANCOUVER (CP) British Columbia labor unions today prepared for all an all out drive against the province's new labor act with release of an exhaustive report that charged the legislation threatens 'ndastrial war on the west coast. - rf ' ;3Ci sty -,i Isp & CNR Bridge Partly . Destroyed Repairs Rushed Following Fire J f v - . v 1 ' ., - r The report, to be presented at- Canadian National of . rallv of trade union officers and shop stewards here tomorrow, was drafted bv a srecll research committee made up of members of th- B.C. Trade Union Concress, The B.C. Federation of Labor and the Standard Railway Brotherhoods. It was '.wo months .in preparation. The three croups reores'-nt Settlement Said Near In- IWA '.Talks VAVmilVRR. CP) Oporto PK'TIKE United Press staff photographer Frank Cancellare, of the UP. Wa.sh-Eurci.u. has been named winner of the ' best news feature pfcture'.' division pf-the ,i:onal Headllner contest for this photo entitled "Posthumous Award." The picture thrpe-mnnth-old ' Francis Colton Hammond Jr., of Alexandria, Va.. receiving the sionul Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to his father, Francis Colton Ham-i Navy hospital corspman who was killed In Korea. ficials reported this afternoon that a wooden bridge, 10 miles west of Pacific, was partially destroyed by fire early this morning tying up through traffic on the Jasper-Prince "Rupert line for (t Many Civil Servants Fired Screening Says St. Laurent v 000 workers in more than 200 j MitchelI secretary-treasurer of B.C. trade unions. j tne international Woodworkers The report backs up earlier ; of America Cio-CCL. said last demands of major B.C. labor or- t niKnt that setUement o( tne ganizations for withdrawal of 1954.55 contract dispute of 32.-the new act under which the oou coast iumber workers "could minister of labor is given sweep- be reached momentarily." ing powers in labor-management In a Weekiy rwA radio ad-relations and the powers of the dress Mitchell said an an-Labor Relations Board Is re- nouncement of the union's pol- uced- icy committee's decision on con- . The government has given no tract tll,ks sti;I in nroereM ia,e an all-day discussion on Justice t their reliability, the government more than a day. Details of the blaze are few, department estimates, criticized ' had accepted the principle of ! i -"-ijLc ...... j1 errm- hn i guilt by association. I DUt 11 Known mat one or the There should be some sort of j approaches to the bridge, some appeal board for federal employ- ! 60 to 75 feet long, has been ees to present their case before ! completely burned. a cabinet minister made a final ! Cause fjf the fire has not yet the screening system, as open to the abuse of McCarthyism. He said civil servants suspected of security risks have no chance to clear themselves of ; t The govcrn-fcurity screen ha iDotit the di.s:hargc of r.jnlyr" of men from 4 si 'ivirfs but "not (nun the civil scr- M;im,t"T St. Laurent : ii'I'innation to the ThuiMlay In a state-, ii Mtld the gov- indication when the new act, ap- iast nignt with coast operators proved at the last session of the would De made tonight been determined, the CN spokes suspicion. And In determining ruling. legislature, win ue proclaim 1 Xne contract talks have been but it is understood in labor B,ting nn fnr Knm wu. h.. man said. No reports of bush fires In the area have been received, he said. FILLING THE GAP The Cameron Highlanders had a blank file during the Ottawa garrison review until eipht-year-old Norman Donaldson and his air rifle stepped In to fill the slot during a "stand easy" period. (CP Phoioi circles here that preparation and tween U)e uninn negotiating pruning 01 reguiauons conneci- commiUce and Forest Industrial One repair crew Is already at the scene and another is on the way from Prince Rupert with ; tuiiiilinn against at- , .y nrc;!(i) pwcrs to i T't information. ."(itd the government's irecmng system after'; vnlx (1 as "McCarthy- ea witn me new mil are m pro- Relations representing the op- gr?' . . .. . ,' 'erators. Three major objections to the Tnere was no lndication what new legislation were contained terms had en agreed upon in . re?J i V . , , . , ' tne Pending settlement. 1. The LRA will lend to and j Tne IWA has asked or a r;. LIMIT OF 15 US VESSELS SET FOR ENTRY INTO CANADA VANCOUVER (Pi The B.C. Fl'tllr Vpsc1 Owners' A.sv-clatlon has been advised that g limit of 15 vessels of more than 65 feet will be permitted entry into Canada from tne U.S tinder duty remission plan. The regular duty of 25 per cent will be charged on'an npprai.scd value of the vessels but 50 per cent will be remitted to the purchaser In the first year If the boat is used for fishing. The remaining 30 per cent may be claimed in the second year. Anglicans Seek $100,000 For Restoration Projects jane Fulton (PC-Kam-i newal of last year's wage scale promote, Diuerness m laoor ! management relations. ' HAMPERS UNIONS and eight major fringe benefits, j When the demands were' an-' to I lie nounced, theoperators said the 2. Major amendments new act are not in sympathy lr"'Be "enenis w'" amount to timbers to effect a temporary reconstruction. Passengers are being transported between Terrace and Hazclton by highway. The 9:20 PDT ea-fttjouiiw irin will leave the Prince Rupert" station on time tonight, transferring passengers to buses at Terrace. Traffic from Hazelton east is operating at a normal schedule it Is reported. This is the second major interruption in service on the line within 48 hours. Wednesday afternoon the line was blocked when a load of pulp logs was derailed between Salvus and Ex. stew, 67 miles cast of here.. The CNR reports that the logs which blocked Highway 16 for with the needs of the B.C. work- a ''A cetus noun' increase, ers, but are designed mainly to Present basic wage is $1.29 2 "hamper the functions" of trade , hour'y- i.Mii'-nt'.snld "quite a t siTvii i nicn, screened 1 imint. "were found lo! tint it. was felt pre- it to have In the armed - the civiMan depart- I "ivcrnmcnt, there have very many." rtl'Tcnce to foreign which he did not St Laurent said: j 11 iitfl awiifn.i, ivuttiicii 111- An urgent appeal for a "res- bishop announced the appolnt-'oration" fund of $100,000 will be ment to an honorary canonry of launched by the Diocese of Calc-1 the cathedral of the Rev. A. W. donia, through the Cnurch of j Atkinson of Burns Lake, who England throughout Canada. was subsequently elected clerical The fund, suggested by Rt. delegate to the General Synod Rev. Horace G. Watts and ap- with Fred Fowler of Smilhtrs as proved at the 25th synod of the lay delegate, diocese here Wednesday and j Elected delegates to the Pro-Tliursday, is sought to repair vincial Synod were Rev. Canon present church facilities in the Basil S. Prockter, Rev. M. W. diocese and to provide more j O'Connell of Terrace, Rev. A. L. facilities. Sergeant of Dawson Creek, Rev. unions. . dicated the policy committee's of the new 3. Introduction act was unnecessary, since only ! recommendations would go im-one section of the present act i mediately to the membership for Fourteen City Scout Leaders Busy With Special Training Fourteen local scouts have The training course, which was been engaged for the past week held at Casey Point and at var-in taking the Bronze Arrowhead ious halls in the city was concourse, an advanced phase of ducted by visiting field com- was deleted. i a No country yet has kept de- .'p cot to assume that 'flints made hy for- mocracy alive where the gov- f 4 v 1 .' I " A I" 1 ! , r ml , f - , i -. - Index Drops OTTAWA The consumer P. irrnment has attempted to des- frs to obtain through The bishop told the synod that G. Tucker of Kitimat, P. F. the staff throughout the large' Bird, W. Ridley, Kitkatla, troy labor unions by denying price index dropped by one-tenth iraining lor .u . . u " ' 24 hours, have been moved aside diocese was at a low ebu, and ! Faure, G. S. Reade. R. E. Gladding was re-elected them the rights and freedom of. of a point in April to 115.5 from strike action," the report warn-j 115.6 as food prices continued to ed. I decline. seconas, reining uisinci uuv wai..-..rii-u ....... ......i. v,iw.B re-loaded and that Commissioner Frank Anfield re- . to-Vancouver and Joseph Turner Ji many missions and churcHes had been closed over the past several im.vori Prinre "pans uj wre iuuu u.c uuuui u,l. V, boon to secretary-treasurer by acclamation and elected to the Synod ported this morning. years. rimrop fmm Kimtwrlpv Way. Caledonia will appeal through 1 executive council were Rev. Can- na(;e or IntelliBcnce ir.form-.it ion that we y should not have." !v persons who could Ixt Canada's security tlfpctive were the per 'horn espionage agents Uu'icnt reject ed Mr. demand made several "li"r this season for n security transfers and other dioceses throughout Can Climber "Fair' After Surgery on C. A. Hinchcliffe, Smithers, Canon B. S. Prockter. G. S. Reade and P. F. p. Bird. Named to the board of religious education were Canon Prockter, Canon Hinchcliffe and J. Fowler. Bank Official Sees Cause For Optimism At a banquet of the Boy Scout District Executive last night Mr. Anfield, who will be leaving shortly, was presented with a travelling case on behalf of the Srouts and the executive. ' Don't let the boys down. Keep scouting hot In Prince Rupert," Mr. Anfield said in reply to the presentation. Ottawa Greets Haile Selassie, Descendent of Solomon, Sheba OTTAWA (CP) Haile Selass'e North American goodwill .tour, of Ethiopia, emperor of 19,000.- 1 Emperor Selassie, who flew in 000 east African lieople, today Thursday and flies to Montreal sets out to see Parliament in ac today, will spend much of his tion as the major part of a short time here in the centre block of visit to the capital. i Parliament, watching the Com- T. Sharpe of Seal Cove, who ANCHORAGE, Alaska Armv Pnt Ororie W. Arirus. the will be ordained to the Diacon- ada for "at least $100,000" for Immediate expenditure in the area. Special thanksgiving services and election of delegates and executive council members were other highlights of the synod. Clerics and lay delegates from throughout the large diocese were welcomed to the sessions by Bishop Watts, who made thanksgiving the keynote of his charge to the synod. , "Iton. speaking during , nvivn -r.i who survived a ate June 6 in St. Andrew's Cathedral for the parish of Seal Cove, "Tills part of the province has! was elected to the social service committee with J. Stokes. p7 Happy -vdry reason to be tremendously . cDtimNtie soout it;; hitu.e,'' h. I F. Mi'A'pine, Kiipet'vlsor of th" Royal Bunk of Cannria nnd one The king of kings and con- mons In debate and Inspecting A special service in the cath 1.000-root fall ana iwo weens without medical care on Icebound Mt. McKinley, was reported in good condition Thursday after undergoing surgery for a badly dislocated hip. Air Force base hospital doctors operated on the Injured 25- Kemano Worker Hurt in Tunnel other parliamentary institutions. edral, conducted by the Rev. h Receive Paul Mercer of Alyansh with the quering lion of the tribe of J11-dah, whose monarchlal line is history's longest, is here on a 3' '2-day visit to Canada in a For the bearded little monarch, the day should hold no turprit;es in the workings of Aiyansh choir in attendance, VANCOUVER niagoja closed the sessions last night. we Award Momin o-year-o.u nunc wo. mm year-old mountain climber, m., hip had been feared broken tion in hospital here suffering democracy, for Canada's federal governing system an elective and an appointive house is similar to one in effect in thi ancient kingdom whose extst- r : 1 Argus was badly hurt and a compunlon, George Thayer, 27. a possible fractured leg. He was STAKTICI) WORK IN 1837 , Noting that this was the 75th .umiversary of the synod he said Hint it was 97 years since the Church Missionary Society had started its work along the northern B.C. coast. Paying tribute to great men of the past, the Bishop recalled the names of Duncan, Ridley, Collison, Hogan, Ardach, Du- or the lending finnncial men of EC. s-iid on a visit to the city yesterday. "On a trip up here five years' aso I noted the enormous growth in prospect for the whole central Interior country leading into Prince Rupert," he s-i.ld. "I was optimistic about It then and am much more so now." He recalled that at the time the plans for Columbia Cellulose establishing a plant in the injured while working inside the huge mountain tunnel at Kemano; site of the Aluminum Company of Canada development, when a piece of rock fell trom the ceiling of the underground shaft. Read.sboro, Vt., killed May m when they fell on the descent after scaling the 20.680-foot peak. Two companions brought him part way down the mountain and he then spent ight days in a makeshift shelter be-lore rescuers arrived. Vernet, Rushbrook; Rlx and Gib Switzerland i Chaplin received the p prize of the Commun-ml World Peace Coun- home Thursday. He 'as honored and happy, 'iiilgate a demand for wilier from the East or '""ilv believe is a step t direction," the4 Bri- movie actor said In a in received a scroll and ,n,y of about $14,000 "'Presentaiive of the Prince Rupert district were Kt'll in the conversation stage and son. The Bishop made referenrc to the loss the diocese would sustain when Mr; and Mfs. F. E. Anfield left the area. In Mr. An the Alcnn project for Kitimat was completely unknown. Now these undertakings are established facts, and there 1ms field, he said, they were losing a loyal and able vice-chancellor and member of the executive PGE Bridge Work To Start in July VICTORIA 0 Construction is expected to start in a month on a Pacific Great Eastern railway been a great deal of additional development besides," he said. He noted that his bank has put in new branches all along the council, and in Mrs. Anfield they would lose the president of 6 To Give the Women's Auxiliary and ancc stretches back beyond the era of wcittrn records. DISTINGUISHED ANCESTORS Haile Selassie, whose progenitor sprang from a union of King Solomon and the Queen cf Sheba roughly 3.000 years ago, spent, the night at Government House s the guest of Governor-General Vincent Massey alotiii with the chief members of his suite of 24 persons. These included h's third son, 23-year-old Prince Sahle Selassie, his granddaughter. Princess Sybel Desta, 23, and three members of his cabinet. After a few days in the eastern United States, they came to Ottawa from Boston, arriving here In an RCAF North 8tar. The 81-year-old emperor, a slight swarthy figure in the khaki uniform of a field marshal, was welcomed at Rockcliffe airport by the governor-general. Prune Minister St. Laurent, leaders of opposition parties and Canada's service chiefs. They greeted him In English and French, and Mrs, St. Lau dominion representative. GIVEN PRAYER BOOK Ms Fliahts bridge across the Capllano River in West Vancouver. The government-owned railway has called for tenders for the northern line and that every one of thcin Is doing excellent business. "Can you blame me for being enthusiastic?" he asked. He presented Mr. Anfield with J ' j - l IT VI M " fJrv ' r N i 7 I I ; I I 'flp" Chum, arrived here '"''liver nt noon today a prayer book, inscribed with I , 1 j j Accompanying Mr. McAlpinc the names of synod members, on the trip are C. A. Grant, stall and a nylon surplice to mark officer for the bank, and James ! appreciation of his services as Cuok, bank premises officer, ull lay reader to- the diocese. from Vancouver. substructure of the bridge. The bids are to be in by June 22 and construction is expected to start by July. Earlier this week Premier Bennett said at a press conference not only would tenders be called for construction of the bridge, but bids for construction of the railway link between Whytecliff and Squamish would be called later this month. , The bridee. which is expected .Climaxing Wednesday's session was a well-attended Thanksgiving service in the cathedral at which a stirring missionary sermon was preached by Senior air cadets famil-J11 flights around the lying is being carried sh the afternoon, with crew on board to '" cadets with duties Clonal aircraft. '""'I of the plane is the arrangements made and Air Cadet League furing the recent an-''tlon here laments for the exercise "If hfinHl,..! , THE WEATHER Forecast North Coast Region Mostly Canon A. Hinchcliffe of Smith- cloudy today and Saturday with ers. M,LlVmKK Is putting its chips on. 20-year-old Barbara Woodhall of Clayinont, in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City next September. She's five feet three inches tall, weighs 110, is blonde and blue-eyed, and her talent Is organ playing. to cost upwards of $300,000, will be built at the site of the old rent later told reporters the em -peror speak French fluently. The emperor, whose language is Amharic, has a limited command WORLD RECORD SEA BASS Luis M. Guillermety Jr., San Juan. Puerto Rico, engineer and sportsman, Is shown here with his world record sea bass of 192-pounds caught at night just off-shore on a hand line! Guillermety battled the monster for almost two hours while his nephew Herman Wirshing Jr. (leftJ looked on. scattered showers; Little clmnne j Following the service, the in temperature. Light winds, bishop dedicated the new cath-Low tonight and high Saturday edral porch doors In memory of at Port Hardy and Prince Ku- the late Bishop James- Byers pert 48 and 60, Sandspit 48 and j Gibson and Mrs. Alice Gibson. ' 85, At Thursday's sessions, the uim lucaiiy Dy Douglas McLean, com- PGE trestle about 1,000 feet towards the sea from the Marine Drive bridge In West Vancouver. ol English.