provincial) PROVINCIAL LISHAitT, DM0RROWS II VICTC2IA, B. -TIDES- Friday. July 10, ,1953 antic Stardard Time) Daily 0:19 20.8 feet 13:30 18.2 leet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER iyery 19:07 7:07 2.1 7.8 feet feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 158 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.. THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Phonj mm 0 rai o Jason m hm Skippers Welcomed At Yacht Club Base ny i:ric SANDERSOfV The largest flotilla of privately-owned power cruisers to enter Rupert harbor since before the war began converging here this afternoon. V'a! f WW Twelve sleek boats competing 't V in the second leg of an International predicted-log race from Tacoma; observer, Frank M Hueh, Seattle. African Queen Frank Morris, -. ,J , f . Washington to Juneau, Alaska, tnv .1 ' 1 spent the night at Lowe Inlet, beattle; observer. D. W. Oood-about 60 miles south of here. rich, Salt Lake City. They left there at 5 a.m. i " Joje Howard Irwin. . Port- The first boat crossed the of-; land; observer, E. W. Harding, flclal finish line taken off the i Nanaimo. . . end of the Imperial Oil dock I nnolie Ray Harf, Bremer- .C JA.Mi:s W. TAYLOR of Maniiington, W. Va., makes a check on a batch of 500-pound bombs neatly slacked rows at a munitions dump In Japan. After careful selection and Inspection, the nbs will be loaded aboard Air Force B-29 8uperfurU and fiown to Korea. From there, the ;c bombers will slam them against Commun isfc targets in North Korea. In three years of rcan combat operations, B-29s have dropped over 280.000 bombs on enemy targets. to a sailing marker across the harbor shortly after 2:30, then w-b; observer, Gordon ileli, Salt Lake City. Arlrne Stan Youngs, Seattle; observer, Jack Oiseburt, Tacoma. Superior II Brad McLough- 1 . headed for the Yacht Club base. Race master Frank Morris is checking times and will announce the results at a dinner tonight. Aany Accept Naval Hospitality to See Un, Seattle; observer, Ed Shell, Seattle. WHILE NEGOTIATORS DETERMINEDLY WORK on a truce in Korea, and President Syngmaii Rhee continues to threaten an negotiated peace by insisting that the war continue, the belabored people of South Korea continue their never-ending struggle to feed themselves. In a rice paddy not far from the conference site in Panmunjom these Korean farmers go about the ancient process of planting rice. Wahoma Jene Walby, Seat learning Warships on Visit to City All told there arc 68 persons aboard the craft, ranging from 35 to 75 feet in length. The group, which anchored in the Inner basin of Lowe Inlet, off Orenville Channel, before darkness last night, received an advance welcome to Prince Rupert when Captain Roy Berry-man of Queen Charlotte Air ci mi or two lours oi amy row morning irom coinonwci. uirean war waters, HMCS The Cayuga will sail tomorrow. tle; observer, W. H. Biel, Seattle. Wehineai Howard Cruver. Seattle; observer, Homer Thomas, Bremerton. Ray-Mar Ray Davis, Everett. Washington; observer, William H. Short, Seattle. Henarieta II Thomas W. Ayres. Vancouver; observer, Dr. John D. Finlay, Oswego, Ore. rorpoisc II F. R. Killam, on about 150 to 160 tons of oil the tribal class destroyer was moored alongside HMCS Sault Ste. Marie which arrived here '1 uesday. Yesterday afternoon Lt. Cmdr. Hayes, captain of the Cayuga Allied, Red Negotiators Return To Panmunjom for TruceT alks SEOUL i AP) Allied nd Com-t lease of some 27,000 anti-Red, Washington reports-said Presi-munist negotiators return today North Korean war prisoners. dent Eisenhower and his top to Panmunjom to resume nego- Attending ; Thursday's confer- adviserR had bn closeted Ho iations on final details of a ence with Clark and Robertson . . ' - . 1 yesterday began a brief! The Cuyuga. under the corn-lay visit Co Prince Rupert I mand of Lt. Cmdr. William P. to sailing tomorrow with' Hayes, CD, RON. steamed into -Admiral J. C. lllbbard, I Prince Rupert harbor about 8 CD, RUN. Admiral Hlbbard, a.m. yesterday and lay out in Officer, Pacific Coast, is the stream until about 9 am. , in np.iua l.p mi MtA iuhaii tf Vw.hnH at. Tmrwrtal OH lines; Emerson (Wally) Wallace. OCA base manager here, and and Lt. D. E. Rigg, skipper of the i.u i. an..c CJ....U ra. .,,.. ..1.1 ....... Dr. W. S. Kergin, well-known physician and surgeon and the owner of one of Rupert's largest CNR train early tomor- : dock for refueliuig. After taking " "- ,7u , ,1,7, Vancouver; observer, W. A. Lang, Newport Beach, Calif. Korean, armistice which South!were U.S. ambassador to Koreaiulalb "cw v"- were greeted by Mayor Harold Whulen. Korea has bitterly assailed and Ellis O. Briggs and Robert Mur- j following receipt of - the. Corn- said it will not recognize. phy, political adviser to Clark. . munist letter. power cruisers, flew down to greet them. While there, Dr. Kergin advised the group regarding fog on Chatham Sound and told them to be on the alert for some 2f)0 gillnetters which would be fishing between Glenn Island ahd the mouth of the harbor here. LIITIE LEAGUE EXECUTIVE CALLS, GENERAL MEETING , A general meeting, open to the public, has been called by Prince Rupert Little League baseball executive for 7:30 next 'day, July 14 at the Civic Centre. ' President of the newly-formed league. Art Williamson. I this morning that the executive not only wants Its nbers to attend but all. parents and Interested citizens, so I suggestions, criticisms and future plans can be made, o want to iron out all the kinks," he said, "and we want Churchill 'Ordered' To Retire , LIVERPOOL (Reuters) Two British news This afternoon naval hospitality wan extended to the tcncral public when both ships were thrown open to cilwrns wishing to go aboard. Streams of Prince Rupert residents and many tourists went aboard first, the Sault Ste. Marie, and then the Cayuga looking over the gleaming vessels and having varivus aspects of the. fighting equipment explained. Prior to saving northward WAGE INCREASES GRANTED . OFFICERS , ON COAST SHIPS; VANCOUVER ft A general overall wage increase has been won by more than 500 licensed of fjcers aboard British Columbia coastal steamships and freighters. ... , Under an agreement negotiated Wednesday junior officers are to receive increases from $17 to $30 depending on their .classification!;. ; Some 300 masters and mates of the Canadian Merchant Services Guild and about 225 members of the National Association of Marine Engineers are affected. ryone there that cao possibly attend."-- " v', j ... ..... The United Nation command said full-scale, truce talks recessed on June 20 will get under way at 7 o'ctockr tonight.- ; The hieeting presumably was arranged during a -.iS-minute liaison -officers' session' at Panmunjom totfay:' But the" official UN 1 spokesman refused to say more than that the meeting was held "for administrative purposes only." . , Announcement that the truce talks would resume .came a few hours after top-level UN dele-. gaUon headed ' b Gen. Mark Clark tried again to win President JSyngman Rhee's support of a truce. , IMPORTANT LETTER An authorative source said Clark handed Rhee an important letter dealing with South Korea's objections to an armistice. But an official spokesman said emphatically that the letter was not an ultimatum to Rhee to accept present truce terms. HMCS Cayuga left Esquimau papers said today that as WET CRCISERS ' ' Leaving aboard a QCA Beech-craft plane shortly ; after, 7 o'clock. Captain Berryman cruised down ' Orenville Channel. and the group made contact first with R,' A;; Mueller, owner of thm Wimiiffed III Irorrl ;Ta coma, Washington. ' The African Queen, owned and skippered, by Frank Morris, race master, had not reached Lowe. Inlet at the time of the welcome party's arrival, but the trio talked with him by radiotelephone from the Winnlfred Pavlukoff Kills Self July 2 fts a guard for the Pacific International Yatching Association fleet between Victoria and Vancouver and also as escort for the International Power Boat Association flotilla In Its race between Seattle and Vancouver. n Oakalla Prison a result of doctors' warnings Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 78, may announce his retirement shortly. The Liverpool Post said Churchill's successor will be Anthony Eden, foreign secre what he was going to do." jThe Cayuga left Vancouver July NCOUVER (CP) Convicted Nomination Papers Filed Today For Ted Applewhaite Official nomination papers. Official nominations through-were filed here this morning for out Canada close on Monday. Ted Applewhaite, who Is seeking Mr. Applewhaite, first to file re-election as Liberal Member of i papers in this riding Is expected Pavlukof fs suicide brought to ; g and proceeded northward on sudden end a case tnai oe- it.s training cruise. gan on a hot afternoon in Au-guest, 1947. III and later flew over the sleek 75-footrr before returning to Prince Rupert. The flotilla left Vancouver tary, who is In the United States recovering from the third of a At preciselv 3 p.m.. closing rcr Walter Pavlukoff, un-' ntrnce oi death, took his life in a cell at Oakalla i Wednesday by plunging liarpcncd end of a spoon Ills heart. . 40-year-old killer robbed allows 10 minutes after his r told him his appeal 4 execution had been re-l by the British Columbia time of the Kitsllano branch of home this week. Parliament for Skeena. Informed quarters here speculated that Allied liaison officers the Canadian Bunk of Com Mr. Applewhaite, who is cur- Personnel aboard the Cayuga is made up of a nucleus of Korean veterans with the remainder being men of the new commis-' sion. HMCS Chatham, RCN reserve establishment hole, Is staging a dance for the officers and men of both visiting warships at the asked the Reds at Panmunjom rently making a tour o,i the merce, a hollow-cneeKea gunman walked into the bank wav Thursday when Polish and Czech ing a Luger pistol. Seconds later, manager Sydney He spoke to a smail but interested audience at Justkatla last night giving a comprehensive address on the progress of Canada during the past few years. He made particular reference to social secruity, labor legislation and the International status of Canada. Questions on many subjects J1 of Appeal. Petrie lay in front of his desk, shot through the chest. He died last Sunday and Is due at Juneau at 2 p.m. this Sunday. The visiting yachtsmen were greeted on arrival here by the executive of the Prince Rupert Yachting and Rowing Club and will be officially welcomed at dinner in the Canadian Legion beginning at 7:30 p.m. Later they will attend a dance in the Legion. TO GET TROPHY Owner of the vessel making the best time between Vancou Naval Prill Hall tonight. Mukoff had been sentenced in hospital later that night. haiiRed July 28 for the The murderer escaped witn-1 The Cayuga wnl sail from r of bank manager 8yd- out any money. I Prince Rupert . tomorrow ' and 'tnc In 1947 He was cap- series of gall bladder operations. Both the Liverpool paper and the Birmingham Post, which nlso front-paged the report, said Churchill had received "serious warnings" from his doctors, on whose orders he began a rest from overwork two weeks ago. Both said, however, that he is making such good recovery at his country home in Chartwell, Kent, that he may decide to postpone his resignation a little longer. The Liverpool Post predicted his announcement would come within the next three months. The Post, a usually cautious. Conservative newspaper, splashed the story on its front page under an eight-column head members of the neutral nations supervisory commission can start work. Clark, In a June 29 letter to the Reds proposing that a truce be signed now, suggested a meeting to discuss when the neutral commission can start functioning. Representatives f:om Switzerland, Sweden. India, Poland and Czechoslovakia will supervise an armistice. The next day, a warrant was i makc-s its first call at Kitimat in a Toronto suburb last Queen Chanoiis Islands, was first elected MP for this riding in the 1949 elections. His papers' were signed by Jack McRae. former Liberal MLA for Prince Rupert, and seconded by Harry Menzies. Assentors were: Mina Kergin, Mary E. Oordon. Harry F. Robins, Catherine N. Laurie, Gun-nard Anderson, Victor Menzies, Michael Munizaba, Art Krlst-manson, Harold S. Whalen, James N. Forman, Ida A. Ballln-ger and Gunnar Selvig. Filing the papers with Rcturn-lne Officer Vic Whiting were ry after eluding police for were answered. j Doug Taylor acted as chair-I man and Introduced the speaker. tran five years. issued for Pavlukoff's arrest, j where the officers and men have For the next five years he was; been Invited to see construction well up on the RCMP's list of work at the gigantic Alcan' de-most-wanted criminals. velopment. Later the ship will Hen Hugh Christie said s were nearby when Pav ver and Rupert will receive a trophy from the yacht club and the perpetual speedboat trophy, Train Delayed His capture In North York j call at Ocean Falls and Powell came as the result of a tip to River where trips through the 1 slabbed himself with the vised knife. first donated by the city In 1930, Derailment of a freight train near Aleza Lake, some 40 miles east of Prince George will delay handle was quite small, will go to the cruiser making the best time. UN REQUEST The UN command asked for today's liaison session after the Reds said Wednesday they were naif its normal length,' ic said. "But it was lnna Doug Hogarth, official agent for i the westbound passenger train police from a salesman who recognized Pavlukoff from a picture. Pavlukoff offered no resistance when picked up on a street corner and soon was en route to the coast to stand trial. He had worked in Toronto for 11 to go between his ribs merce his heart." line. It. gave no source for the report, which cami from Its political correspondent In London, and warned that It might pulp and paper mills have been arranged. Rear Admiral Hlbbard will disembark from the Cayuga at Comox where training of Sea Cadets is being conducted. Also sailing tomorrow to complete Its training cruise Is the Sault. Ste. Marie which will return RCN reservists to HMCS Malahat at Esquimau. The flotilla leaves here at 5 a.m. tomorrow and is scheduled to stop overnight In Ketchikan, proceeding to Juneau the following day. ready to resume the full truw Mr. sppiewnuue, .u.- u. - -' talks which were recessed June! date's campaign manager, Doug .seven hours. CNR officials said 20 after Rhee ordered the re-1 Frizzell. itoday- 'Vr Harold Fisher said koff anneared In imnri be denied officially. "iter be nor to d h i nn some years as a carpenter, living in an obscure rooming- had been rejected. Rave no indication of house. mission Vessels Visit Here CjnY ' The report said the prime minister "has taken the decision with extreme reluctance and only because of serious warnings by his doctors." The story said a denial is possible because of the effect his retirement might have on the Conservative party and because it might "postpone indefinitely a Big Four meeting with Russia." (See earlier story, page 7) p Launch Six-Week Program Among the 12 boats Is the I Senarteta II, owned by Thomas W. Ayres of Vancouver, who won the Poulsbo-to-Vancouver leg of the 900-mlle race. The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club craft covered the 137-mile run in the amazingly low margin of error in calculation only .58 per cent. . He Is the first Canadian to take the classic In the 22-year history of the race and his win also marked the 50th anniversary of the RVYC. host club for the race. The cruisers spent last Monday night at Safety Cove, also rv tian Association. The overall program of mis six-week program of the Medical Mission got sionary work takes in the west 1 way toriav when two mis- coast of Vancouver Island, the s'ups anchored at Port ''ft at midnight last night, are the motor vessel Willis Queen Charlotte Islands, the B.C. mainland and the Portland Canal. This summer lt Is hoped k. under command of Capt. ! " 1 . - , , y that a dentist will be brought nortli at noon today to place the last of the mission workers at the Naas River, Hyder and Stewart, Between 40 and 50 workers of the Dally Vocation Bible School program besides many crew members are servicing the five boats which are carrying out the transportation work for this mission program. Supervising the dally Bible classes and the overall program Is Miss Helen Carlson of Portland, Ore., and assisting In the owooert, ana the 56-foot n In chaiue of Skiniwr Al nn from California to service known as God's Pocket, and on the lower portion of the coast I Tuesday they overnighted ' at -WEATHER- Forecasts North coast region Cloudy, clearing slowly overland this afternoon. Extensive fog and low cloud Friday morning, clearing slowly. A little warmer Friday. "Winds light. Low tonight and high Friday at Port Hardy, Sandspit una Ptni loioHit. bt m id 7u. ' Bowlyn with seven mls-ry workers aboard is re- fltfrirfrfc! mi-m -Tfe-Mrt R out on the SkPPna nd the Queen Charlottes. Capt. Stabbert, formerly a construction worker In Seattle, save up his profession to enter full-time missionary activities on the wfc.sl. oimst ttnd Alaskan walem. Klemtu. Following are the cruisers aiid their owners; Geva Tommy Pakenham uf Vancouver; observei', Bert Neil-sen. Tacoma Wuiuilred 111 K. A. Mueller, "r six weeks to- work the children of the can-xorkt-rs The Willis. so.o..t NEWEST ADDITION TO FRANCE'S AIR FORCE Is the Leduc experimental supersonic jet. Designed for very high speeds, the aircraft features a transparent nose, central-type landing gear anu stotu.j Ui8s. It id also 0J.p..ult of being flown by release tow "mother planes." work is Percy E. Willis, mission. 'f verted minesweeper, sailed ary ot the rihantymeu's Chris