PROVINCIAL j pscviscim. lxs?vu. SORROW'S VIC.0?I.r , 2. C. Hi TIDES Decemtx r 3, 1053 ' surnl Timet ii-Oa 19 8 feet -" - . feet "5 01 "3 feet j7;54 53 feet . f Dai!, Vp.IW.ry Phon8l NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to 'the Greot Northwest" VOL. XUI, No. 280 PRICE FIVE CENT3 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 . .! ,T Cf ' TV.' ' .W-'S i. i- , , 11 1 . . 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 111 1 1 1 1 1111 1) 1 1 1 1 m m iiiiiiii 1 "t MM Slides Tp IPa Urn, - . .... . British Factories Cease Production ' By The Canadian Press A wave of strikes on both sides of the Atlantic left more than 2,000,000 British and United States iV-"i There were four major worn stoppages in the U.S.. and in Britain a 24-hour token strike for higher jpay by more tha.i 1.000,000 engineering workers raused the greatest, even if temporary, labor tie-up in the United Kingdom since the general strike of 1928. vlril MKTIIOOS of disposing of a city's garbage, Incineration, dumping or sanitary ; the above operation Is the least costly but the most troublesome. Prince Rupert city ,sove, where garbage Is dumped and th m burned, Is Infested with an estimated 30,000 rats. Rats cannot be removed while dump Is still being used. n!f nnr I nnrl-Fill PvnArimanf1 Eight File Nomination Papers Here 4 In New York some shipping der Way at Algcmc Park was tied up by a work stoppapc j of longshoremen protesting new hiring methods set up by a commission which seeks to j Cne man has filed nom It DICK AYKKS caterpillar and hyster-drag line; . First problem Is to rid the city's iPrtnce Rupert s week to will operate at Algoma Park to I present garbage dump of rats, 1H demonstration and find out If a sanitary fill is the I the second is to find a way of ination papers in the mayoralty race for the Dec. 10 civic elections and fit tew days a 19-ton answer to the city s two main reclaiming land hitherto tagged (j Taclor Company D-6 .problem. as useless due to Its muskeg formation. SCENE ABOVE is a playground built out of a sanitary landfill. Huge trench was dug in hitherto useless land and garbage was dumped there, Impacted and then covertd by dirt and soil removed from trench. If, as has proved successful in other cities, a sanitary fill WE SEEK PANAMANIANS clean up the waterfront, al-! t houeh some men begar returning today. In the city itself all seven major daily newsoaDers were not publishing, six of them strikebound in a wage-and-benefit , dispute with photoen-gravers. Early today the two biest canning firms in North America were struck by the United Steelworkers CIO) Union in a wage-contract disagreement and Its effects reached Into Canada can be operated at Algoma Park, then the city's rat Infested seven candidates now have nomination papers at the city hall in the aldermanic contest. Mayor Harold S. Whalen has been nominated by J. N. Forman, seconded by C. O. Ham. A second candidate who has 10 QUIT SHIP AT VICTORIA dump can be Isolated for a few days and poisoning of the thou Police State' Tactics Used In Probe, Says Airline Boss sands of rodents can begin. '.CT0RIA (CP) Two seamen who Jumped the Panamanian hi Atlantic Sea prior to her departure from here during CAN FIGHT POISON ek-end are still being hunted by police and immigration Scientists have proven that where five plants of the two companies are covered by the while a dump Is being used, and announced his intention to runt same contract. The other mator is George E. Hills, who has yet VANCOUVER - CP) Russ ; tent a report to Ottawa. Baker, president, of Pacific! "The injuction was too late Western Airlines,- onr Tuesday i if it was meant to prevent this charged the Air Transport Investigation." the affairs of Coastal Air Services because, he said, it had been operating without a licence. This was denied by a company spokesman. men are SpanLsh-speaking Don Jose Delatorro Perrere, Varoito Bewvento Barrere, 27. They face deportation 'mi. to file papers. leafy material being dumped along with other garbage, rats can fight off poison as the leafy and vegetable material provides an antidote to the poison. As soon as the rats eat all tuc Running for the four council Board has used "police state" He had been asked to check U.S. dispute, more than ' five weeks old, is in the aircraft industry. ARBITRATION VOTE In the New York newsoaoer seats to be vacated this year by j tactics in its investigation at i Aldermen George B. Casey, John j Port Alberni, B.C., of Coastal j oun ie, H. F. Olassey and Mike Air Services, a booking agency I gotiations For Settlement l for his airline. I strike, the 400 striking photo-1 Krueger are ten men. vegetable material, poison will be laid and the rats will die of tuternal haemhorrage engravcts were to vote today on( JViose who have filed papers Coastal Air Services is a subsidiary of Pacific Western IWA Strike Break Down Moana.hU.. a troneh is beina I ,ltnI" r M : tuc Aiunmui nunc, uku v locked issues. Chief issues in the ; 11. A. Breenand seconded by J. dug at Algoma Park parallel to I strike, which started Saturday,) H. Thompson; Alderman Casey, ivn. BU .n--Nego- mae an employee iiicmucr I nip i-iiw nine, .... c were a,at,t wages nnri wplfare hpn proposed by John M. McNulty, . settlement of the the IWA for life, no matter where can be dumped, crushed ny tne ; " number of an- tferlor British Colum-! he works in the Industry in B.C., caterpillar and then covered to. hoMavs and the duration h dispute were dead-1 as well as compulsory check-off the required aepin. uperaung , Qf ft npw conlract ,, ., un Tuisday when 'of dues. He would not agree to the drag linfj. with 1U of a, The ,on t maor strike was between, union and this undemocratic demand. yara oucvev is, vi; ,vlul.c, North American Avlfi- nlng Tractor Co. operator from ; feJ UnU(jd Auto. Wovk. Vancouver, .who .clad in oil skins, . n , . . representatives broke j "Instead, we offered a clause Chicago Tribune Publisher Refuses- To Pay for Telegram VANCOUVER (CP A 400-word telegram sent by 300 University of British Columbia students to Col. Robert McCormick, publisher Of the Chicago Tribune, backfired Tuesday. The students sent the telegram as a climax to a campus ceremony. in, which the Chicago publisher was burned In effigy. . . last Sunday night. ; ' i The students sent the telegram collect. Col. McCormick' : refused deliver?. The cost was $40. Who's going to pay? The students says the telegraph, company . More than 30 students last Sunday turned up in a car. . parade, hoisted a store mannequin aloft on a crude gallows, soaked it in gasoline and lighted it. The burning was In protest against a recent Tribune' editorial attacking Lester Pearson, Canada's external affairs minister. Students stood In the' rain while the dummy burned, chanting: "Don't molest our Lester." , No police were present. The burning followed a similar burning of United States senator Joseph McCarthy two weeks ago at Victoria College, " University of Toronto. calling' for maintenance of the (or the the Interior Interior; ; check-off, check-off, which which ;would would rei rtwlre - tiinch between 15 1 ?ples' anlF"sn0: ?aifi a"d,Cl: KiMitactnreiV Asx.vts. ; an emolovee to -maintain the . t t i iuidus, u. csome jj.uuu wuwen ana &j ii'fi, wmc. ijiii uihb v H that they termed a check-off once he signed It as a quit their jobs Oct. 23 in a dispute over wages. bull- Mr. Baker charged that Inspector Leslie Knight at the Air Transport Board had "walked off" with books of Coastal Air Services in Port Alberni and interviewed . witnesses, ' clients of Coastal Air Services, under oath in the presence of a police- es- corti .: :'. ;-- - .: ;"' Ah Injunction was served on Inspector Knight late Monday as he stepped from the Nanaimo boat en route home from Port Alberni. It restrains him from further inquiry and submission of evidence already taken to the board in Ottawa. . , Counsel for PWA said the proper procedure would have been for Inspector Knight to subpoena witnesses to appear before the board. Mr. Baker termed the board's operate the combination o a three-vear ; condition of conunuea empioy- seconded by Murdo Macarthur; Thomas. Henry Elliott, proposed by John C. Ewart, , seconded by William . Davidson; James W. Prusky, proposed by Robert B. C. Wilton, , seconded by .Bartell A. Hedstrom; . J. H.' Mair,. proposed by Aid. Casey, seconded by ri. R. Mil; Walter J. Smith, proposed by D. G. Stuart, seconded by Earl Gordon; Norman riellls, proposed by Harold Helland, seconded by H. E. Eyolfson. THREE MORE Three men- who have announced their intention of running but who have not yet filed nomination papers, are Aldermen Mike Krueger and H. F. Olassey, and Philip Lyons. Aid. Krueger, Mr. Bellis, Mr. Smith and Mr. More than 1,000.000 engineer- three-cetit hourly. wage! ment for the duration of the In? workers closed British auto niective Jan. 1 and contract. dozer and drag is Tommy Thomas, city public works employee. IDEAL METHOD City works superintendent M and aircraft factories, shipyards and machine shops In a 24-hour "lorrt-openirig the wage ! "We can go no further." trSept. 1. li:.' ' K oken strike for more pay. From London to Glasgow and fcrnatlonal Woudwurk-fricaiCIO-CCLl is ask-"cents-an-hour wage Belfast the hum of machinery ceased. Work benches were de f wr the present rate Realty Firm Charged With Fraud serted. itts an hour. The' Confederation of Ship 'MN 9,000 workers are ; 1 10 the northern and building and Engineering Unions, an organization with 39 affiliates, called the "show of action a . police state move. The injunction was issued in Beaton estimates that-the sanitary fill method is ideal for Prince Rupert's dumping anci rat problem. The city's monthly garbage! collection is 1.200 cubic yards, which when burled in a trench can be at least 50 pel cent compacted by the caterpillar before ground from the trench, is pushed over them b the hystcr-way blade. At the moment, seepagi.- has filled the trench with water and the machine Is not digging -so deep as Interior of British Lyons have recelvea endarsation j from the Prince Rupert Civic Affairs association. One man, Robert L. Eby, pro- the B.C. Supreme Court by Mr; strength" walkout in support of Sun Takes Beating Here As Rainf all Sets Record Justice A. D. Macfarlane. a demand for- a 15-per-cent wage; increase. j posed by Duncan McRae and sec "k number divided ; VANCOUVER (CP) The Service 'jwn the two areas.' I Realty Company, promoting-a 'TO IWA unionists, also1 50.000-acre Tropical Isle devel-aiiifd, have been onl0pment in Cuba, Tuesday was October. i charged under the Security wretary-manager ; Frauds Prevention Act. Van--MA said "the IWA rn- ,,rit have Invested S300.000 industries mvoivea esumaieq he production loss would reach Inspector Knight said in oh interview he had obtained the books voluntarily and returned them that way. , , He said fie had obtained all the information he sought and 10,000,000. it was when, the operation was onded by w. f. stone nas inea papers for a post as parks board commissioner. There are three seats vacant this year, that of commissioner Charles Balagno, Mr. Eby and Robert Armstrong. Mr. Balagno and Duncan McRae hav onnniinppd their intention started as the trench comes ui fPart from demands in the project, 'wance of membership ' The company and Its president, I the hill to. McBride Street. Work on the trench Is ex- 3 we contract which I Oeorge E. Campbell, are charged Spy Hunters nected to be . completed by 31 degrees. Maximum barometer reading was on Nov. 28 at 30.02 and the lowest was 28.74 on Nov. 22. A low barometer reading heralds a storm, the weatherman said, end it arrived on schedule. Maximum wind velocity, ' at Digby Island, not Prince Rupert, was southeast on Nov. 25 when it reached 30 miles per hour. The wind gauge on Digby Island is sheltered from wind ... ft i Churchill Reaches Bermuda J nf innT-n, q mni, a,:r.h Ar V.hv The sun is taking an awful beating around Prince Rupert' as the weatherman continues to drench the city with an ever-Increasing precipitation. Last week the weatherman on Digby Island (who really isn't to blame) said sadly that there had been 13.91 Inches of rain in 27 days. Up to that time the sun had shone for only 21.5 hours. Three days and 1.75 inches of rain later, making a total of 7 nane i in information laid by Attorney-i CJeneral Robert Bonner with op-; crating without a certificate is-Isued by the superintendent of and have been given backing by jCI ICC the Civic Affairs crouD.- , v -1 IrlJVillJil 'Continues Thursday night or Friday morn Ing. Two Killed At Ketchikan V 'CPi -Hope grew Gouzenko One man, Joe Scott, retiring school board trustee, has filed papers "for re-election. He was TUCKHR'S TOWN, Bermuda brokers. i Another charge alleges the Tropical Products Ltd., a subsidiary, unlawfully acted as securities issuers contrary to the Se- -....i.. Ant lur 'he lives of F nts of a plane niiss. WASHINGTON (AP) United and does not record the high winds experienced by the city. 15.66 inches, the sunshine total proposed by Lea Basso-Bert and seconded by William Bond. A. f.' Dominate, other retiring trustee KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) AP) Sir Winston Churchill arrived here today for the Big Three conference, in the wake of one of the worst recorded storms l .Bermuda's history, which drenched the island with 3Vfe States Senate spy, hunters met today to decide what to do about questioning Igor Gouzenko, after ( , UW in northwestern ' Kmnerature In the C dipped to the zero-"da night. Conviction carries a maximum V"' penalty of $25,000 fine. Campbell aay m ST.. ,nJi to appear in tower at the Ketchikan Pu p Co has not yet stated his intention. Deadline for nominations is noon, tomorrow. 111 Wilrnh is being con- 1 construction project near here. for November remains the same 2H'2 hours. The sunshine total of 21.5 hours for last month is the least amount the sun has shone since December 1952, when the sun only appeared for 17.1 hours in 31 days. villas 11.. V rnn Q rnunv aa in orAir m several rtuiiin.-, oi. P iuiatoT.or the attorney. They were Eddie O'Janen, 39. genTrafs'8 department, reported whose moth er J , ve , a Alvwood. Derailment Near Pacific Delays CNR A freight train derailment yesterday near Pacific, 120 miles t0 cover ft8aln disclosing that the FBI reported information from the former Russian code clerk in Ottawa had enabled it to identify a U.S. scientist as a Soviet agent. Chairman William E. Jenner (Rep.-Ind.) of the Senate internal security sub-committee, indicated Tuesday that the group 300 Investors have contracted io ivu""-. " i i.rj miles north- "Bonton. erett. Wash. The added three days of rain put up $3,000,000. boosted the year's 11 month to Lumber Upset Kills Skeena Mill Owner Inches of rain in one hour Tuesday. A fresh northeasterly wind brought clear weather for the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the 28 other members of the British delegation, arriving in the plane used last week by the Queen at the start of her Commonwealth tour. The most stringent security regulations in Bermuda's history tal up to 88.78 Inches more than fell in 12 months of 1938 ment Young Britons Dig Ditches 1942, 1944, 1950, 1951 and 1952. is not likely to press the issue in view of Gouzenko's reported objection to being questioned. Jenner said "I don't want him to The only days it didn't rain last east of Prince Rupert, delayed the Canadian National passenger train's arrival here by about 10, hours. . " Freight trains travelling east and west also were delayed by wen Proiect to tarn Tour Money month were Nov. 6 and 7. Highest temperature for November this year was 60 degrees on Nov. 10, and the lowest was Nov. 6 when the mercury dropped to were set up to guard the Big no overtime, so xne bridge University man ' of I ? Y,n,n -Hi! p",ml'ent .BriL- ?'ve r0'l'd up Ule Aluminui -1! Of Harvey Roy Jones. 29, a native of Skeena Crossing Reserve, was killed yesterday in a lumber accident. Mr. Jones is believed to have been killed instantly .when he was crushed under a toppling pile of lumber. The accident occurred at 4:30 the derailment, which occurred just this side of Pacific ( first terminal east of Rupert) yesterday afternoon. The tracks were cleare'd some rnree during their talks, which begin Friday after the arrival of Premier Laniel and President Eisenhower. Troops, barbed wire and other devices ringed the conference hpnrimmrters. the Mid-Ocean testify if he feels it will endanger him and his family." The Senate internal security sub-committee, in releasing excerpts from a November, 1945, FBI report,, deleted the name of the scientist, described as a wartime consultant to fleet admiral Ernest J. King, then commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet. The FBI said its information indicated the scientist may have WEATHER Forecast North coast region Cloudy today. Rain tonight. Scattered p.m. yesterday at the mill ne allowance granted by the British government is Insufficient. He has shared a tent with several backwood boys, washed his own clothes, lined up at the cookhouse and dug ditches. .' At first he was placed in the camp office, but he Insisted he did not want to be pampered. Next day he was digging ditches. When Adrian Allcnby, a grandson of Field Marshal Lord Allenby, arrived he was put to sweeping out the car-ponters' shop But it meant, Club here, to make it as nearly operated five miles southeast of for. and got outside labor. He, too. seeks an American tour. Kenneth Symington, son of England's soup king, took off happily on his tour after working on the laundry truck. There are other British r-"hllc school boys digging ditches Just as earnestly as they would play a tense cricket match. Once a week they put on collar and tie and dine together in the mess hall. So far none has worn white tie and tails. .' . snv-nroof and assassin-oroof as Skeena Crossing. IB hard work. 4"dyn Jebb, 23, now Vaf"lr 'orer. wa3 . nnd xford StiW ' 81r Cladwyn f'ance8 amssa-:;i8a"te- He was a lieu-Welsh Guards. ,a trylng I tn Parn time after midnight, delaying the east-bound passenger train only about an hour. The westbound passenger arrived here at about 7:30 aim. today, after a ten-hour wait at Pacific last night. Cause of the derailment was not known here. showers Thursday. Little change in temperature. Westerly winds 20 shifting to southeast 30 this evening and westerly 25 Thursday morning. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy and Sandspit, 35 and 45; Prince Rupert 35 and -HI. possible. Coroner C. H. Drake of Hazel- It is forecast that the three ! ton will conduct an inquest into ieaders probably will agree on a the death, favorable but questioning reply Mr. Jones Is survived by his tn Russia's proposal for a Big wife, Jane Sheila, and six child-Fo'T cunfmPitee. 1 'en. furnished data on the navy's proximity fuse to Dr. Allan Ninn May, British scientist who c6n-fessed in l4H to passing atomic secrets to the Russians. to for a tour of '"''H- the dollar