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Among
Passengers
By
The
CanacU'in
Press
VANCOUVER.
Nine
persons,
including
five
children,
j-e
leported
missing
aboard
a
30-foot
j
pleasure
boat.
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white-colored
power
j
launch
disappeared
Sunday
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a
40-mile
trip
across
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Women
Set
Fire
By
The
Canadian
Press
Georgia
Strait
from
Oaliano
Island
to
Steveston,
B.C.
Heavy
fog
patches
over
the
strait
was
hampering
a
search
for
the
missing
vessel
by
RCAF
planes.
All
ships
In
tlie
vicinity
ahi
shore
stations
were
warned
to
be
on
the
lookout
for
the
small
s
iutO(ihl
lKI.I)
Zoos
baby
elephant
Mcllnda.
her
keeper
Cliff
Jones,
and
a
friend
ram
ol
Bcrwyn.
III.,
view
the
devices
that
aided
the
animal's
convalescence
after
she
Blizzards
Isolate
Villages
LONDON
(Reuters)
Snow
plows
guided
by
helicopters
today
battled
through
drifts
up
to
eight
feet
deep
in
southeast
England
to
clear
a
way
to
five
villages
isolated
by
blizzards
during
the
week-end.
All
432
inhabitants
of
the
vll-iane
of
Eastling
have
been
cut
off
by
blizzards
since
Saturday.
Snowplows
clearing
roads
to
Eastling
and
four
smaller
hamlets
were
guided
by
helicopters
which
spotted
deep
drifts
and
guided
the
plows
along
the
clearest
Routes.
The
temperature
here
was
23
degrees
the
coldest
in
six
years.
Many
trains
froze
up.
Snow
still
was
falling
on
the
capital
at
noon.
The
Thaiups
froze
over
at
Windsor
for
the
first
time
in
seven
years.
Meteorologists
said
there
will
be
no
let-up
for
at
least
two
days.
ITALIANS
HOMELESS
Far.
to
the
south,
about
100
001
n
nmn
ihBs
msi
oepu;moer.
weunaa
rms
made
a
satisfactory
recovery
and
soon
alking
without
a
limp.
.
p
Weekend
Fires
Raze
Home,
eck
Baptist
Church
Interior
VANCOIIVFf?
rjU
s.;Y:
'aunch
owned
by
Oliver
McKay
ar
!
of
Duncan,
B.C.,
one
of
the
nine
Uouknobor
women
prio-
j
persons
reported
aboard.
oners
were
injured
todayl1--"-
When
they
set
fire
to
a
i
three
children,
Jimmy,
13,
Roger,
;8,
and
one
year:
Mr
juonset-tvup
uuiiseiiype
hut
nut
in
in
which
wnich.
Gioria
Bromley
and
her
two
they
were
quartered
at
1
children.
Judy,
IO,
and
Trudy,
1.
!
All
are
from
North.
Gallano,
6n
Onk;illn
Priunn
Ii'un,,
UdK41U
J:
J
lhOn
t
ami.
;
oaliano
Island.
.
One
woman
was
taken
to
hos-
j
"r,
W,:K'""
""--"Itfrior
of
the
Regular
Baptist
A
charred
shell
and
a
rhlm-,Ki
a
ben-n
th
Aye,
Church
with
total
damages
ncy
Is
all
that
remains
of
the
unci
MtiKCil
the
In-
:
amounting
to
nearly
$6.000.
!
four-room
house
at
257
Seven,
h
puai
suiienng
trom
serious
burns
to
the
back.
The
other
five
were
reported
to
have
es
IR
CADET
COMMITTEE
caped
with
minor
burns
to
their
hands,
arms
and
legs.
Avenue
West,
owned
by
Martin
Vandcrheide
und
occupied
by
Charlie
Heppner
and
a
friend,
j
The
house,
worth
about
$2,500
1
nnd
insured
for
$2,000.
was
Rut-'
ted
by
the
blaze
which
broke
U.S.
Accused
Of
Kidnapping
Russ
Diplomat
MEETING
HERE.
TONIGHT
'
A
FRENCH
NAVY
F.N.R.S.
III
depth
boat
is
lowered
Into
the
Thirty-seven
women,
all
members
of
the
radical
Sons
of
Freedom
sect,
were
in
the
200-foot
building
being
used
as
a
teipii
porary
cell
block
when
the
fire
;
out
early
this
morning.
A
neighbor
saw
the
flames
spurting
out
of
the
house
at
3:13
a.m.
and
called
firemen
water
20
miles
off
Dakar,
French
West
Africa,
for
a
test
dive.
French
Navy
Captain
Nicolas
Houot
and
Henri
Wilm,
a
marine
engineer,
plan
to
challenge
Professor
Auguste
Ptccard's
depth
record
of
10.344
feet
in
the
craft.
They
plan
to
make
the
attempt
120
miles
of
f
Dakar.
'
1
broke
out
about
3:30
a.m.
TOKYO
A
Russian
spokes-
,
Guards
removed
all
the
pris,
mart
today
accused
the
United
who
rushed
both
city
fire
trucks
Italian-
.-
farmers
and
mil
fishermen
w'
a
recent
discussion
here
with
V.
R.
Clerlhue,
r,
PXfi-utive
member
of
the
Air
Cadet
League
of
ill
Ik
on
the
agenda
at
the
annual
general
meeting
i
f
the
sponsoring
'committee
of
the
local
air
cadet
H
,l4
I'3tne
Rtqierf.
Mr.
Clerlhue
had
a
talk
iiiiilm
iii.'iiilH'is
and
ruised
wjirte
suggestions
for
1
of
Hie
nqiiiulron
In
lh.
r,.v.
i-
w
v....
or..i:.
ji.i-
me
was
iur
were
left
tiomp
era
tnfinv
.k
oners
within
minutes
after
'
the
States
of
kidnapping
true
missing
alarm
was
sounded.
second
secretary
an
IntellW
NO
DETAILS
.
-
gence
agent
of
the
defunct
So-
advanced
when
firemen
arrived
the
storm-swept
Adriatic
flooded
V
'
,
P
"s
",B
lw
Villages
In
the
Po
River
shell
of
the
wooden
frame
build-
delta.
r
Official
ol
the
irtehisuh.'tle
mission
m
Tokyo.
An
Aitierican
Mtce-who-re
ing.
,
urban
Burnabv
decline
to
m
Big
Four
Still
Deadlocked
On
Chinese,
German
Issues
Uif
Ciffii
ei
s
will
be
another
item
of
business
at
the
Other
countries
reported:
The
Netherlands:
Nearly
all
Inland
and
coastal
shiDDinir
i
The
two
occupants
were
out.
;
at
the
time.
They
had
attended
10
be
held
in
the
Canadian
Legion
hall,
starting
at
11
Interested
in
the
air
cadet
movement
are
Invited
fused
to
be
identified
told
the
Associated
Press
that
the
missing
diplomat,
Hurl
Alexandro-vich
Rastovoroir,
has
asked
the
lease
details
of
the
'fire,
but
It
was
reported
that
the
women
had
piled
their
bedding
and
wooden
furniture
aealnst
the
jtne
midnight
show
pnd
heard
paralyzed
optimistically
about
the
confers
ence.
To
them
the
most
pleasing:"1'1'5
of
the
building
and
set
fire
BERLIN
-The.
Big
Four
foreign-ministers
moved
their
conference
over
to
the
Russian
sector
of;
Germany
today
with
Rupert
Rinks
Ousted
tning
was
the
change'
of
iitmos.
,U.1U
-.
d.sj,
..
phere.1.
?'
'?,,:,
Firemen'
saijl
Uie
interior
of
NEW
MEKTlNfJ
PLACE
j
the
building
wfis
badly
damaged
United
States
for
political
asylum
and
had
been
granted
it.
The
break
In
the
long
silence
of,
the
cloak-and-dagger
story
of
Rastovorov
stirred
speculation
that
the
largest
spy
ring
in
Asia
may1
have
been
cracked.
The
affable
34-year-old
Rus
The
conference
mover)
for
oui
mat
10
couw
ttt
salvaged.
An
estimate
of
datnage
was
not
France:
Temperature
In
Paris
dropped
to
eight
below
zero.
The
coldest
night
of
the
winter
Sunday
night;
four
below.
;
Germany:,
Two'
below
this
morning,
but
prospects
of
warmer
weather
from
Siberia.
Moscow:
Moscow
radio
today
reported
slightly
warmer
weather
in
the
Soviet
capital
23
below.
Smithers
Bonsoiel
out
budging
an
inch
on
any
world
problem;
.
j
They
are
deadlocked
in
hold-;
ing
a
Big
Five
conference
to
in-
j
elude
Red
China.
I
immlnlnlti
.
....nllnUI-
sector's
Allied
Control
Authority
j
...
k.
wi
nil-
wiutc
Jiuvillbl
H
snacK
j
in
a
downtown
restaurant.
!
Cause
of
the
fire
is
unknown.
A
stove
placed
too
close
to
the
wall
Is
blamed
for
the
Sunday
morning
blaze
at
the
Baptist
;
Church,
which
almost
completely
gutted
the
kitchen
at
the
I
rear
of
the
former
army
build-j
Ing
and
ruined
the
Interior
of
,
the
auditorium
with
smoke
and
;
water
damage.
j
Total
damages
arc
about
i
$2,000
In
the
church
fire
which
!
was
noticed
and
reported
by
i
neighbor
Trevor
Hill
at
10
a.m.
hill
fi
I
IW
l.n
tlin
th
nv
R
sian
diplomat
disappeared
from
KK
AIRES
ws
Spuria
Editor
vw
uiiuij
lit
rw
VJf
prison's
Doukhobor
section
In
000,000
Russian
embassy
the
Soviet
embassy
Jan.
24,
on
As
the
conference
went
into
!
fires
cent
r"er
two
min,or
p:S.
All
Prince
Ru-
were
started
by
women
who
the
eve
of
his
scheduled
departure
for
Russia.
tvent
by
Ebncr
of
Burns
Lake
by
a
score
of
8-1.
Ken
Robertson's
quartet
was
downed
6-4
by
Cpl.
McKlm's
RCMP
rink
In
the
Bulkiey
Hotel
trophy
event
and
the
Mount-ies
went
on
to
oust
Al
Miller
11-3
in
the
semi-finals.
liavfi
been
eliminated
"'tit
ion
in
the
28th
ithcrs
bonsniel.
stripped
off
their
clothing
and
set
it
afire.
its
second
week,
no
evidence
that
the
Soviets
were
changing
their
basic
aims
was
manifested.
Just
before
midnight
Saturday,
the
East
Germans
published
their
own
plan
for
a
united
Germany.
f!
three
rinks
went
They
are
supporting
rival
plans
for
uniting
Germany
so
radically
in
conflict
that
another
deadlock
appears
inevitable.
State
Secretary
Dulles
and
Soviet
Foreign
Minister
V.
M.
Molotov
have
had
their
first
brief
feel-out
on
President
Eisenhower's
proposal
to
establish
a
world
atomic
pool
for
peace.
Loggers'
Strike
Ends
feat
Sunday
night,
final
games
to
the
WEATHER
Forecast
North
coast
region
Gale
Miller
beat
Evans
of
Smith-
j
Again
both
fire
trucks
were
on
Jiaycrs.
cm
o-j
111
ine
ciKuis
out,
was
one
loo
"
and
t
ip
h
u
wa:.
The
American
source
said
It
is
almost
certain
Rastovorov
has
left
Japan
and
may
be
en
route
to
the
United
States.
There
was
speculation
that
the
Russian
had
been
flown
Saturday
to
Okinawa,
a
huge
U.S.
base
700
miles
south
of
here.
S.
I.
Runov,
spokesman
for
the
Russian
mission
here
unrecognized
by
Japan
called
in
Japanese
reporters
and
Issued
a
"at
the
'sulci
hsri
:
.,i,i
u
.
,....
VANCOUVER
(CP)
A
three-month
strike
of
wood
workers
in
"
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TKr.
-,..1-.-
i.
4
1
"1
crc
squashed
thi.;
Clashing
"'8
plans
for
"r
t
disarnia-
(hp
wnithorn
PriUvh
f
,l.i'
f
I'lay
continued
"""""'
ment
have
been
turned
iri,,..
h
.,17
over
to
sw
inp
day
It
provided
that
the
Commu-
1
warning
in
effect,
nisi
bosses
of
the
18,000,000
East
Cloudy
with
Intermittent
rain
Germans
would
have
as
many
j
today
and
Tuesday.
Continuing
votes
in
a
new
government
as;
mild.
Winds
southeast
20,
fre-the
50,000.000
West
Germans.
quently
reaching
40
over
the
It
would
pit
the
solid
phalanx
open
water,
of
the"
one-part
y
East
regime
I
Low
tonight
and
high
Tuesday
against
West
German's
demo-
at
Port
Hardy,
35
and
46;
Sand-cratically
divided
several
part-snit
and
Prince
Rupert,
38
and
ies.
-
48,
Four
Prince
Rupert
rinks
j
ha
been
t
al
ab(m
,
a
m
headed
for
home
yesterday
and
,
u,n
tQ
m
up
thp
bM
the
remaining
curlers
plan
to
;
for
Sunday
school
and
morning
leave
on
tomorrow's
train,
ar-!
service,
both
of
which
were
can-
1
f
be
presented
at
a
secret
sessions
of
the
foreign
ministers
where
they
can
argue
more
freely.
But
Western
diplomats
talked
ft
:iiBllt.
''bb's
rink
was
rlml-
riving
in
Rupert
Rupert
tomorrow
1
celled.
Evening
service
was
held
Joe
Morris,
district
president
of
the
International
Woodworkers
of
America
(CIO-CCL1
said
a
referendum
vote
completed
Friday
night
showed
the
workers
in
favor
of
accepting
a
10-cent
1
"
ine
tlcERie
troul.v
nh.ht
(See
earlier
story
page
4.)
-
-
,
v
...0..v.
t
prepared
statment
accusing
"the
American
espionage
'
organ
In
Japan"
of
seizing
and
holding
Rastovorov.
The
U.S.
state
department
and
Far
East
command
had
no
comment
on
the
case.
hourly
wage
'
increase
spread
i
over
a
three-year
contract.
The
present
basic
wage
's
$1.29'i.
Some
D
500
IWA
members
have
h-n
"i
strike
in
the
area
since
Oct.
23.
at
the
home
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
N.
A.
Bcketov.
Dozens
of
Sunday
school
students
arrived
lor
school
In
time
to
see
the
last
of
the
fire,
and
on
their
own
took
up
a
collection
for
redecoration
of
the
building,
handing
it
to
Rev.
L.
A.
Thorpe
as
he
stood
amid
the
ruins.
Mr.
Thorpe
said
he
expected
.services
to
resume-
next
Sunday
although
re-decora
Hon
would
not
be
completed
for
some
time.
Fire
chief
Becker
this
morn-
Baseball
Bat
Used
in
Hodlup
VANCOUVER
CP)-An
elderly
Vancouver
Chinese
was
sluesed
with
a
baseball
bat
and
robbed
of
about
$400
in
the
lane
behind
his
home
Sunday
night.
Police
said
61-year-old
Foon
Wong
was
slugged
by
two
men
who
they
believed
were
familiar
with
his
habits.
Police
found
a
blood-stained
baseball
bat
in
the
lane
where
the
attack
took
place.
Quake
Strikes
CALEXICO,
Calif.
IP
A
short,
sharp
earthquake
jolted
this
community
at
8:25
D.m.
Snnrinv
ing
praised
RCMP
who
assisted
but
authorities
said
no
damage
Italy
May
Get
Coalitionist
Government
ROME
W
The
badly
battered
Christian
Democrat
party
hoped
today
to
form
a
centre
group
coalition
to
pull
Italy
out
of
its
long
political
crisis
and
keep
it
facing
to
the
West.
Thee
seemed
no
other
possible
solution
to
the
rising
challenge
of
the
Communist
left
and
the
Fascist-Monarchist
right
which
has
upset
three
Christian
Democrat
cabinets
In
six
month!
mcuii'ii
ul
uuiu
mazes.
i
nad
oeen
reported.
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Pioneer
Surveyor
Still
Prefers
Horse
For
Travels
Through
Rugged
Northand
and
plainly
worried
other
NATC
"
capitals.
The
centre
party,
still
Italy",
biggest
and
In
control
of
th
government
since
the
war,
seem
ed
likely
to
call
its
grizzled
ole
warrior,
former
premier
Alcid'
de
Oasperi,
back
to
the
helm.
President
Luigi
Einaudl
begai.
his
weary
rounds
of
consultations
with
senior
statesmen,
ant
party
leaders
all
over
again
thi.
morning,
seeking
a
man
wht
could
form
a
new
government.
EDMONTON
CP)
Horses
may
not,
be
so
fast,
says
Knox
McCuster,
"but
at
least
you
know
you're
'
going
to
get
there."
McCuster
has
been
"getting
there"
on
horseback
for
more
than
45
years,
in
which
he
has
probably
treked
through
more
of
the
great
northwest,
than
any
other
man,
surveying
and
mapping
land
contours.
His
faith
in
horses
doesn't
mean
he's
old-fashioned.
He
was
one
of
the
first
to
use
bulldozers
Instead
of
an
ax
gang
to
cut
out
boundary
lines.
BOSS
SERVEVOR
McCuster
has
been
reputed
able
to
carry
out
more
sur
vey
work
in
a
given
time
than
any
other
boss
in
the
trade.
Last
summer
he
surveyed
132,000
acres
in
the
Peace
River
Block,
near
Fort
St.
John,
B.C.,
und
Hines
Creek,
Alta.
,
McCuster's
life
has
been
largely
spent
in
northern
Alberta
and
B.C.,
the
Yukon
and
the
Northwest
Territories.
He
has
pegged
out
millions
of
new
acres
in
the
northlands.
COOK
IS
KINKPIN
His
gang
numbers
between
12
and
24
men.
Most
valuable
of
them
all,
from
Knox's
point
of
view,
is
the
cook.
Things
have
changed
since
Mr.
McCuster
first
explored
the
backwoods
in
19da
"In
those
days
we
were
isolated
for
four
or
five
months
at
a
time,"
he
recalls.
"Mail
was
brought
into
camp
by
pack-horse
and
the
letters
were
about
two
months
old.
We
spent
mast
of
our
time
in
the
bush.
But
nowodays
we're
Isolated
only
about
50
per
cent
of
the
time."
Knox
McCuster'
is
getting
on
in
years
and
admits
he
has
"slowed
up"
a
little.
Nowadays
'
he's
happy
to
stay
at
home
by
the
fireside
during
the
winter
months.
He
laughs
off
talk
of
retirement.
"What
would
I
do
with
myself?"
he
asked.
"Another
summer
is
coming"
L
...
'
HlMlvi.,
.,
...
of
a
"
1
viucciit
Aui
lol
of
France
gets
on
the
"REALLY,
OLD
CHAP,
you're
most
frightfully
sensitive,"
says
trainer
Armand
to
Oscar,
the
tail-walking
sea
lion,
as
that
bowhlskre'l
gentleman
turns
up
his
nose
at
something
the
trainer
has
said,
Armand
end
Oscar
are
stars
of
a
circus
'"ers
who
I
cnange
and
"shoots"
some
of
the
e
Krennh
elr
lenses
at
hlm
so
often
while
TOKYO
(CP)
U.S.
air
forct
officials
said
35
persons
died
today
when
one
of
its
couriei
planes
crashed
into
icy
waters
just
south
of
Hokkaido
island.