PROVINCIAL LI2?.A?.Y, 113 QRMES VICTORIA, 2. C. Pi lyipP DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'B NEWSPAPER V ...ma mrYi CABS rfr Published ot Conada't Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 VOL. XLI, No. 146 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1952 ' TEN CENTS (Including comic section) TAR n :-Woirk Issues trilling Canada's V :'nr V ' , -f 5v V ' tV 1WA Called Back For Negotiations , By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER. The British Columbia Labor Board.issued a back-to-work appeal to 32,000 strik Little Mary Would Be Happy If Lost Allowance Check Found Little Mary McPhail Is hoping someone will find her mother's Family Allowance check. The 12-year-old girl lost it somewhere between the post office and her home late yesterday. She put it in iher coat pocket and that's the last she saw of it. Mary walked along Third Avenue as far as the bowling alloy before she realized she did not have the letter. She retraced her steps but did not find it. Outlined ing woodworkers. OTTAWA (CP) Canada's military strength i.; still short of its target The board suggested that the but is expanding steadily, (Ul" pnoto 40, who with six of his children dted workers, members of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL), return to their jobs, bargain for a week with their employers, and if no aereement is reached proceed iiRK SEVEN DIED The body of Fred Thibcault the Defence Department said Friday in a 25-page with a government-supervised T ;nc .wppt nis larpaper-cuverea iiuuse in suuui Dan wicuuiieia lownsnip ai worm tiay, is carried from the ruins of the house. His wife, Judy, 39, was severely injured when she tprt from an upstairs window. Two children, thrown to safety from the second-floor joins, were admitted to hospital. Dead beside the father are: Gerald, 16, Rene, 10, Lynn, 7. r, 5, Patrick, 4, and Elizabeth, 2V2. Firemen said the father died with a child in each arm. white paper. strike vote. The woodworkers' strike, call Government Will Buy Some Canned Salmon By The Cmittdlan Press OTTAWA. The Canadian government plans to purchase some surplus canned salmon for shipment to Canadian forces not only in Korea but in Europe '! ed to enforce aemanas ior in- a. i creased pay rates, is in its sixth t ty Business Men Charge Present Slipping Inadequate For Service Reviewing the defence sltua- j tlon and indicating problems and plans that lie ahead, the department made these points: 1. A target of 115,000 men and women has been set for Canada's Army, Navy and Air Force; total strength at March 31 last reached 95,394, an increase of 26,967 over a year and more than double that of 47,185 in March 31, 1950. 1. Reserve Army strength has jumped by more than 13,000 day. Chairman Darcy Baldwin of the Labor Board urged the IWA to cease picketing at 5. p.m. Monday so that workers may be on their various jobs throughout the coastal district by Wednesday, July 2 and bargaining may be resumed by Thursday. July 3. as well, Fisheries Minister Mayhew said Friday in Wednesdays, the other on Fri I l an interview. days. While the Friday ship brings ,, prime Rupert Chamber1 ' "In addition to the AJcan pro-' mnii'ice has been asked toiject we have also had serious pressure on the Union j difficulty making regular and lii) Company to resume leasonablc arrival times In live .ruier ' schedule of bringing j Queen Charlotte Islands for t he j into this port on Sundays.) logging industry and our over-? MacBi ide, manager of the time cost discharging in Prince rmen's Co-operative store, . Rupert have recently become itkr to the Chamber yes-j completely uncontrolled . . . ,t. complained of "limdo-i "... Vc have found that there milk, "by the time It hits the shelf It's 10 days old," said Mr. Lyons, adding that "once it Is taken out of refrigeration, it goes sour quickly." Hills Adds 13 Votes From Inlet Return Workers would return to their jobs under existing pay rates to be adjusted on a retroactive tn a Mirrpnt. basis if necessary. since Mafth, 1948 DROWNING VICTIM David Claxton, 22-year-old son of Defence Minister Claxton, was drowned while fishing near the Ungava iron ore shipping centre at Knob Lake, Que. A McGill University student, he was a medical assistant with railway construction crews. , (CP PHOTO) He said the amount may total between 6000 and 10,000 cases and will be bought from the B.C. trade surplus from the 1951 pack of 698,000 cases. Mayhew was amplifying a statement he made in Commons Thursday when he indicated Canadian canned &alinon will be shipped to Korean troops. Mayhew said he realizes the amount the government proposes to purchase is not large "but every bit helps." The wooaworners are seeiung a Dav boost of 35 cents an hour spr. ii e by the steamship j was no alternative at this time over the present basic rate of but to discontinue de Friday Friday George Hills, CCF candidate in the June 12 provincial election, today moved into a 251vote lead over Jack McRae, Liberal. i New Attempt At Korean $1.29'a hourly. Ballot box from Hunt's Inlet, total of about 47,000. 1 The Air Force reserve has Increased to 4800 from 744 and the Navy has boosted its reserve ranks to 5000, an increase of 2600 since 1948. 3. Emphasis is being placed on defence research, mainly on trying a solve radio communication problems around the North Pole. 4. A temporary Canada- last polling station of 27 to be heaid from, arrived here this Gravel Pit Stewart Alsburty, president IWA, had bo immediate comment on board's proposal. He will make no statement, he said, until the union's policy committee has discussed the sueeestions. morning. Mr. Hills received 13 votes. There were none for the other candidates. Peace Talks - OTTAWA. (CP) External Affairs Minister Pearson yesterday Production parture from Vancouver to make economies and meet the requirements of other interests . . ." The steamship that arrived here on Sundays brought. frsh produce and perishables from Vancouver. (. P. Lyons another grocer, said: "Elimination of the Sunday service has imposed a burden on grocers here who have only limited freezer space mid 'many ot our customers have complained ot milk going sour before they use it. Total first count votes for the The proposal is acceptable to1 operators, John Billings, man non steamships re-arraiif- ; is licdiile fir lh north-ran a month ago and in mi, nit off the arrival of a steamship with fre-.Ii . htt and milk on Sundays, thai tune. I, F. Brewerto'l, .:! of 1! c. Fruit and Prod-nipany Limited, in a letter old (J McBean of Van- t: niiiimgtng director of the liin-. protested, against iwtl schedule. B:reiion said: "For the SO years, the merchants of :iiy have ei joyed having pnniiice, milk, etc., In tiieir nil Mmiday morning, which 27 divisions show: Hills, CCF, 1,000 Tons Steel Union Gives Food To Strikers said In the Commons a new I United States radar network to ager Forest lnaustnai ivem- Uons. bargaining, agent ior r Gravel 'for Tifg'fiway 16 & "being r 20f2; McRae, Liberal, 1801; Art MjVByl Social Credit, 1026; Tom Christie, Progressive Conservative, 627. coastal operators, reported. protect North America's northern Hank -against air attacks ts-being replaced by permanent installations. They will be man-red by the RCAF and USAF. The Drooosal looks line a sensible way out of an otner- wlse impossible situation," he "Refrigeration space in the approach Is being made in the Korean truce talks that . may bring an armistice. If it doesn t and a new aggression breaks c ut the consequences may be far-reaching. He spoke during the day-long debate on external affairs that i evolved mainly around the Far East However, George Drew, Procrcssive Conservative leader, said. smaller stores can't possibly hold WASHINGTON (APi The United Steelworkers of America (CIO) began Issuing food orders today to members facing hardship as a result of the steel strike, now in its 20th day with PREMIER ASKED iall the perii-liables and it means i nrlce of our produce is going to Meanwhile, the Albernl Dis miM he slopped. Americans Fight Back to ouest loss He utter thai the Altun I nave la De raiseu trict Libers! Association yester out, sign of a breaK. produced at the rate of 1000 tons a day at the provincial" government's - crushing plant near Kwinitsa. A huge fleet of trucks is laying the gravel on the highway and public works officials say the plant will continue for at least three months. The gravel is being laid from the plant site to Tyee and later work will be extended to meet gravelling being done from Terrace west. The plant, is seven miles west of Kwinitsa. The highway from here to day requested that Premier through spoilage." Complaining mainly about th First reports of aid for strik Johnson act as mediator in the ing steelworkers came from Buf strike. - :'; ' Red Attack it . . . is a very Imperial t mil their needs are great, f fee that we are en-d In consideration als, in-id of hi ine penalised . . his reply, Mr. McBean said milk situation. Mr. Lyons .said Bulkley Vallev farmers are unable to supply Prince Rupert with emphasized the vital importance of Europe and said nothing less than ultimate and effective use of the west's "great strength" can prevent another Premier Johnson earlier this week turned down a similar re ! sufficient milk "making it nec quest from CCF Leader Harold fwnpany regrets'- Hint forlessary for us to supplement our SEOUL (API American Infantry today hurled back a Chinese regiment in a savage five-hour war. Winch and said tne tapor tie Mr. Pearson said the new lations Board should deal with falo, N.Y., where Joseph Molony. union director, said hundreds of workers have appealed to the union for relief. He, said they were referred to the New York State welfare agencies but to tide them over, the union issued food orders to members classed as hardship cases. The strikers sre not entitled to unemployment compensation but truce-talks approach concerns situation. light for "T- Bone HUP in western Korea. present, at Vast, we win De stock wun miiK irum vm. 'it I" Hive you the Sunday Union Steamships have two t in Prince Rupert as for- ships arriving each week in s" Prince Rupert. One arrives on Terrace is reported in fairly re-screening of prisoners. The The Reds lost about 600 in killed or wounded in night fight United Nations still insists, however, that Red prisoners who don't want, to go home should v. c The association also asked that the International Woodworkers of America and Forest Industrial Relations Ltd., bargaining agent for 162 coast lumber operators, resume negotia lng that closed to hand-grenade good condition, although washouts along the Skeena River have caused some damage. Travel Is not handicapped by work crews who make daily checks along the river. and bayonet range. not be forced. The reniforced Chinese regi LL1T11MS ment estimated at from 3,000 to tions 'immediately. Association President Les Mc-Kinnon said a continuation of strike would be "disastrous," for the province and the public 4.000 men attacked West Chor-won under cover of one of the heaviest Communist artillery barrages of the war. For a time, advance American thry are entitled to relief aid. 16 Caught In Mass Brazil Prison Break SAO PAULO, Brazil. Police in the coastal town of Uzatuba today caught 16 of 400 convicts - WEATHER - . Forecast Vancouver city, lower Fraser Valley, Georgia Strait regions, cloudy with a few showers this morning. Suniy after midday today, mostly overcast tomorrow with rain beginning in the afternoon. Little change In tempera would be slow to forgive any Dartv which did not do every thing possible to settle the dis Ml'RDER CHARGE LAID Reginald Sloman of Hamilton, Out., 26-year-old bank clerk, has been charged with the murder of his wife, who was found strangled in her home. Tlie charge was laid less than two hours after discovery of the body. Police sa.d they were notified by Mr. Sloman. His wife, before her marriage, had been a model. tCP Photo) pute. Duke Suffers From Chills . LONDON ffl The Duke of Edinburgh is suffering from a feverish chill. The Duke, who is at Windsor Castle with the Queen, is to likely remain indoors "for day or two," a Buckingham Palace bulletin units, despite reinforcements, pulled back hi the face of heavy fire. Some units were completely cut off at times. The battle ended "t dawn with United States forces in a firm possession of outposts along the "T-Bone" ani adjacent (hills. ALL NATIVES WANT TO FISH A representative of native fishermen told the lily News today that all "my people" want to irt fishing Sunday. Because of "fear of reprisal" aid he did not want his name mentioned, hut alf'd that most of the Naas and Skeena river 'in tiicn had signed a "petition" saying they ac-Ptd the 2.r)-tent company offer on sockeye and lie willing to negotiate for other prices later. ture. Light winds. Lows tonight and highs tomorrow at Vancou Longsst Day But No Sun who escaped yesterday from Achieta Island prison after killing 15 guards and civilian employees. Heavily-armed convicts landed near Uzatuba and struck ter ver airport, Abbotsford and Nana imo. 50 and 65. North coast region Varied cloudiness today. Rain tonight. said today! The 31 -year-old Duke yesterday drove down the course at the fashionable Royal Ascot race treating with the Queen in an open car. The weather was cold and wintry. Cloudy with showers tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Wind light, increasing to southeast 20 this evening and shifting to northwest 20 tomorrow morning. Low tonight and high tomorrow al Port Hardy. Sandsplt end Prince Rupert, 47 and 67. Former City Clerks Sins Get Around Even England The fo'iner city clerk for prince Riipert-Dennis Thalne Is "in the news" in the English paper, Sunday Dispatch. In a column entitled "Odd Bits" a rtory tells how Thalne, now city clerk at Port Albernl, was fined $2.50 (15s) for illegal parking while he was banking the pievlous day's parking fees. Today June 21 is always referred to as the longest day of the year. It Is the day on which there U more sunshuie than any other day. The sim was scheduled to rise hi Prirce Rupert at 5:07 a.m. standard time this morning, and set at 9:16 p.m. for a total of more than 16 hours of sunshine. But the sun didn't shine. ror Into two other nearby coastal towns. Ubatuba's police chief, Dangler Guimaraes, said his men ran into the group of convicts, killed one and injured another in a running gun battle before they arrested the 16. Guimaraes said police and troops rushed to Anchieta today to restore order arid found the bodies of the guards and em One cable's length as a nautical measure equals 120 fathoms, or 720 feet. ployees In a prison compound As Browns, Senators Tie and some buildings partly Vancouver Centre Liberals Oust Treasurer burned. Troops, air force planes and 'Satch' Pitches 10 No-Run Innings boats rushed to the area after the bloody break-away by some of Brazil's most desperate crlm inals. t By The Canadian Press e(j four runs ill a ninth to tie the man doubled to bring home NEW YORK - Old S a t c h e 1 score. , - Pt Max. rQir r,it.v, t tnnw nf hrii. ..... with one out .n the 10th to give Guimaraes said he believed VANCOUVER ! Vancouver Centre Liberal Assoc. officers declined to comment Friday on the suspension of Rowe Holland ns treasurer. LOCAL REJECTS PROPOSAL M:W WESTMINSTER (CP) Five-thou--niemher New Westminster local 1WA has '"("tninnided rejection Labor Hoard's proposal to woodworkers' strike. Officials termed it !!tlc barrelled" and "two-faced." SWEDEN DEMANDS PUNISHMENT STOCKHOLM. The Swedish government ex-f,t'il today to demand for a third time that s'a punish Soviet airmen responsible for shoot-Mown the Swedish flying boat over the Baltic last Monday. Russians charged the plane had over Soviet territory and fired first. Swedes i(1 tlie flying boat was unarmed and was 15 miles (,"H he Russian coast. FISHERMEN VOTE ON NEW DEADLINE VANCOUVER. Homer Stevans, sub-business 5e"t f United Fishermen and Allied Workers "'"n. said today the whole union and the Native 'irthcrhood are taking a vote on a proposed "tte in the strike deadline from June 22 to July 1- He said, however, fishermen are not prepared " "wept price cuts. ' . limit, rniior iOKt. niirht. as fit, tjiu is . .. . . M them a 4-3 win over me siump his men caught the leader of the escapees. He said the man was a notorious criminal known Taggers Tag Many For Pool Funds . " -o wit! a double off Bob Hogue, jng Chicago Cubs. Other results: upland who has held the. nosition since 1950, was suspend as "Blond Devil," who had broken out of three other jails be ed Thursday with five months fore he was sent to Anchieta tors battled 18 innings to a 5-5 YanKees' uiira pucner. Minnie tie in the American League. Minose was purposely passed. The game was' called because Sam Mele propelled a home run of curfew. into the left field stands. Paige's performance for the Meanwhile, Brooklyn and New Browns was the highlight of the York both were forced to the left, In his term. More than 40 school children, National Cincinnati 1, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis i, Boston 12 American Boston 2, Cleveland 9 Philadelphia 3, Detroit 1 Pacific Coast "There's been a difference of converged on the city this morning seeking donations for the Gyro Club. opinion within the party organ izatlon for some time." commen Plumbers Meet At Jasper Lodge ted Holland. While tag day officials had rto -TIDES- Sunday, June 22, 1952 longest game in the Majors this limit for victories as the Dodgers season as the Negro veteran gave maintained their five-game Na-up no runs and five hits. tional League lead over the Rampaging Chicago White Sox Giants, gained a full game on pace- Substitute outfielder George setting New York Yankees by Shuba clouted a homer with two overpowering the world champ- out in the last haif of the ninth, ions 8-5 in a hair-raising 11th to enable Dodgers to whip Pitts-Inning finish. burgh 5-4. The Sox, trailing 5-1, explod- For the Giants, Whitey Ixxk- Seattle 5. Oakland 12 Fortland 1, Los Angeles 6 San Francisco 0, Socramento 2 Hollywood 5, San Diego 1 Western International Salem 1, Victoria 4 Lewiston 8, Yakima 7 Spokane 8, Wenatchee 9. Tri-City-Vanconver, rain record of contributions at press time, hundreds of citizens were stopped by cliildren " as they headed for work. Fwnds will be used to purchase playground equipment and help defray costs of the Gyro Club" Swimming Pool. JASPER, Alta. A group of 125 delegates are expected to attend the six-day meeting of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating to be held at Jasper Park Lodge in . the Canadian Rockies from June 22 to 27. 0:54 High 20.6 feet 18.0 feet 8 4 feet 2 3 feet 14:01 , 19:32 7:35 Low