PROVINCIAL L13RARY PROVINCIAL LI33A2T, lia 163 Victoria, b.c. VICTORIA, B. C. KAY 3154 (morrows I TIDES nJ,.y. July 24. 1953 fc-ilir Stardard Time) T Daily VDelivry Phone 81 X 17.1 feet 20 4 (ret 35 feet 6 5 feet 12:24 23:54 6 01 17:53 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRJTI3H COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 170 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS n n siiiasi-AwsiSfi PT3 J mm 1 , 5W.J"WWI-IIM "A. I" Jl. nun j0mmmm nun mi iniiiii. mm 1!f - - "(v v 17 n nn !r- rs , , W I I mmmmu at ' . I T""" r Swiss, Swedish Members Arrive By ROBERT B. TITKMAN AsftoctHled Frew Bull Writer - PANMUNJOM. Allied and Communist officers worked on final details of a Korean truce today and; 4 A then recessed indefinitely as an advance party of Swiss arid Swedish members of a commission widen will supervise an armistice arrived in Korea. A. V V 7 There was mounting specula- Birthday Preview Nil VII.W OF HIS 43rd BIRTHDAY O.N Jl LY 31 Fred Suite Jr. gets an advance look at riliilay cake, presented by his three daughters (left to right) Mary, 7, Kitty, 9, and Pinky, Mrs. Suite looks on. Known to the world as "The Iron Lung Kid," ttie courageous polio i recently completed 17 years in his life- sustaining Iron lung. , department note delivered to Rhee Wednesday was "quite unsatisfactory." The source, who asked not to be identified, said the letter failed to give satisfactory answers to questions raised by South Korea during talks last month between Rhee and Assistant State Secretary Walr Robertson, President Eisenhower's truce envoy. South Korean Prime Minister Pak Too Chin said the U.S. tion that the long-awaited armistice ending more than three years. of bloodshed on this battered peninsula would come within 72 hours despite renewed South Korean opposition. Four Swiss and four Swedish members of the neutral nations armistice commission flew tn Seoul from Tokyo and were hustled to the United Nation;-advance camp at Munsan by helicopter. Their names and positions on the commission were not disclosed. The armistice commission jke of Edinburgh May Replace THIS IS THE HANDLEY PAGE VICTOR FOL'R-JET, crescent-wing bomber that recently made its public debut before Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Air Force Coronation review. The,jrt engines are more powerful than '25 locomotives and are capable of delivering near-sonic speeds with the aid of the revolutionary-shaped wings. The plane is now In production for use with the Bomber Command. - . incess Margaret as Regent government is threatening to withhold $1,000,000,000 in mili Britain Watching For Further llv MS IIAKVEY uiilhin Pri' SUIT WrIUT In announcing the impending .legislation, acting prime minister r A Tf..lln. r, r. m I ..l,l Kn tary and economic aid unless "the Republic of Korea completely abandons its oppositiiai to American ideas as to an ar-1 Changes by Premier Malenltov mistice." ,Pak called the $1,000,000,000 aid program the minimum for his country to survive as a dem By AKTHt'R UAVSIION the absentees included one of land veteran Oen. Sergei Shate-the two deputy ministers of de-Jmenko, ' a former army chief of fence. Marshal Alexander M. staff. law stands now. Princess Mar-1 memoers lanoea in ivorcn Bi garct would become regent If the ! Am'0' and R,,1 lials,,n from huddled secretly here, then re-ruling, sovereign were prevented j through death or inca- without scheduling an-pacity, while the heir to the : othpT session throne, Prince Charles, " was! El'rli',r in hp rilv s,aff of founder 18. Margaret is the first ers conferred. It was announced person of full age In line of sue- , "a,u th' Vxt nJ?r w""lrt bR-cession set by liaison officers. There was little tendency to-' SCORE Kill K. day, either in official nuarters or Communist radio stations re-ltu;Ma4erammKnt. to link prtrd violently to President (he proposed changes in the act svnRman riipPS statement on with recent reports of romance Wednesday that South Korea between Princess Margaret and wm f()jow its own course of LONDON (API British gov KIN i -The British press J"""' - 0,11 m"d le Re (ranted today that under ua ouW Introduced before the A new legation, the re..Qn leuvei on her Common-IT... ,( ElinlurKh would wealth tour .In November. Par-,f Margaret as rP. ; 'amcntary cwreapondenU an- rrii.ee Charles should Urjpato the bill will to presented i t.. the Uuone while early in the autumn session of i I'arlmmeiit. which the Queen as al, wKletv assumed .iefirtniiTrtnH)rrlttn:efH'y'uU-4,el-' - '-"" " rhaclowcd In the House ! '"-TAILS ernment leaders were reported ocratic nation. Without it, he said Kore !?' evinced today that! - Premier Oeorgi M. Malenkovi . tl" attended ,.jj' K at the meeting by wields total power in the. isoyiet Man'y officials hare believe their absence from the Moscow meeting may mean they are not prepared' to Mentify.. thejnk-lvrs . with the campaign against Berla, and hence may also tie in disgrace. ; Union. would go Communist. 'In Washington," Rlsenhowne told a press conference he still was reasonably confident a truce would be signed soon. Marshal Ivan Kwnev, before Stalin's de"ath commander of Soviet ground forces -and an honor guard , at Stalin's bier, mums Wednesday night. Butler did not go Into details Qualified informants said Prime Minister Churchill and his enllpHBups nn rhp hKi nf Clroup Capt. retcr lownseno, ,.,) ,miPS), the Reds agree um m unoon ubi' paiiy ; th(.jr own information from n-.tl.l fliim linrn n.np flnf Kinnrt ... .i . i D"""" w"' ."" wiinin six monuis aiwr a uuce . .. ,.,, ..,. aiirf tnv:." ." 'iiake Queen Mother Eliza- jon the proosert changes In the member of the Council of j act, but nearly every British Tins Is the body which ; newspaper earned stories to the r.iyal authority when ! effect that the principal provl-vi'iriirn is outside the sion would be to name the Duke in Brussels as air attache, lne Is signed to evacuat tj Nort h ' ,rau.c' ",n""" v,....v .... MosroWi wouia not De surprisea w ' a a irv UN o.pnprnl general assemmy DKKpmli v session session !: . i chanera Ven more drama tir Yorkshire Post said: Korea. in view of the tendency of j tnan tne purgng 0f Lavrenti P. "Inevitably, the decision toj The Reds said an armistice ' i Kingdom. I of Edinburgh as regent. As the supersede Princess Margaret as was endangered, but Indicated i y"8",f" Bf" Pl n the Russian nut 0Ut of ot thelr their en en n and withm the fore-is the first In line for the regency trU(.e WM sUll possibe. And im"1tmi" j hierarchy, being linked with recent ru- Communist workmen continued j gafMn V Prime Minister R A Government did about her matrimonial In- A,?Ung Frime, spokesmen mors work on a new building for the t ch-J ressed shock at Rhee s views off Iclal- tentions. , armistice signing ceremonies ! statement.. B," Jf ; not express these, WOMAN SEEKS POLICE AID IN FINDING FALSE TEETH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A Birmingham, Ala., woman wants the Arkansas highway department to be on the lookout for her false teeth. . ,. The woman whose name was not learned wrote the department that she lost her upper plate while driving from here to Memphis, Tenn. THREE WEEKS HARD WORK j ly. But the private opinions ENDS IN ARMS OF SHERIFF On a visit to the battlefront In New Delhi, Indian officials I called the situation confused. SMOOTII PATH "It would appear that if by any I during the day, Rhee told As I'lU.AND. Conn. iAPi- Every day for three weeks William sociated Press correspondent John Randolph he would not chance the regency were considered a bar to Princess Margaret's obstruct an armistice "under Indian, 2'J, luieksawcd a little off the bars of his jail w. He finished his Job Wednesday and climbed out ml" the arms of the sheriff and a band of guards. matrimonial plans the change fpr(ain condlUoM now envisaged could not mated Jimmy Butler Not So Sure What Lanahan didn't know: Tiic sheriff had somebody were given considerable support by Acting Prime Minister R. A Butler's statements 'to Parliament Wednesday. AWAIT EVENTS Opening a foreign-affairs de-hate in the House of Commons. Butler explained that the western Allies had proposed a Big Four .foreign ministers meeting on Germany and Austria even though they "might await further and perhaps even more Sockeye Run Sets Record In Fraser liiiii! him the whole three weeks. . Ially smooth her path. She will remain third In line to the throne and, presumably, she will also remain second in line to the regency." "If we can see our way to survive, we can reach agreement," Rhee said. "But if we rannot see) our way to survive that Is a different . thing." He Wants To Join tAounties The Dally Sketch, on the other oroner Denies Report VANCOUVER (CP) Fraser hand, said, that a change in the The old statesman has said I would go to Canada and talk with some of the Mounties," Jimmy explained. He had often dreamed of being a member of River fishermen were hauling ict relieving Princess Margaret ! manv times his nation cannot DETROIT (AP) Young Jimmy Butler Is disillusioned with the Mounties. He went to a bit of t.r6uble to get that way. The 13-year-old Pittsburgh youngster, being held in the Juvenile detention home here, has of any probability of becoming i srv;vp divided and with Chi- i Barred Newsmen sensational events behind the Iron Curtain, and above all wait to see who are likely, to remain in record-breaking catches of up to 500 sockeye a boat Wedj j nesday. Normally, a catch of 100 sock the real'repositories of power In fficer's query as to whether the Moscow with whom we will have . been the object of a Pittsburg eye a day is considered "excep 'HUVER (Pi ... Attorney- Holiert Bonner said Wfd-lic. will study the official to negotiate. police hunt since Sunday night Uncertainties about the So regenl "would leave the princess ' npse communist troops in the free to marry whom she wished." j north. The PMly Mirror said: "What- Before Rhee left Seoul for the ever other factors are Involved ' front, he talked for 55 minutes in the decision to change the act, I with U.S. Ambassador Ellis O. an effect would be to ease the j Briggs. . consUtutlonal problems raised ; Briggs delivered a message should Princess Margaret desire, ! released in Washington by U.S. as has bee'n reported, to marry i Secretary of State Dulles. The O roup Captain Townsend. I statement said the United press should be admitted, nor lawyer Thomas Dohm's argu-i ments in favor of admission of the reporters. '''I'1 f a coroner's Inquest when he left his part-time Job at a filling station and failed to r'lii' h newspaper reporters viets, said Butler, led the British to shelve for the time bcinir. Churchill's proposal for a top- return home. '"y were barred during the RCMP. ? - ' He said that he bought a bus ticket for Detroit with his pay and arrived here Monday. After two days of sightseeing Jimmy sail he walked across the Ambassador bridge to Windsor. Ont Wednesday and then hitchhiked to nearby Amherstburg which he said he had once seer, on a map and which appeared tc be a good place to find Mountiet because it was near Lake Frie. While hunting for the RCMP the youngster discovered that hi had lost Ms wallet and report.ee "I decided all of a sudden that "is of the evidence. level parley between the Russians and the West. Mounties Find tionally good. Not all of the 1,000 seine and gillnet fishermen netted 500. some got 400 and some less. Still, this was additional proof that the sockeye run this season is the best for a similar period since 1899. As a conservation measure, the International Pacific Salmon Commission has ordered fishermen to tie up their boats for an extra day this week-end. Within the context of this States presumed Rhee would abide by assurances that he thinking, British officials to jury debated 4 'a hours finding that city detective "'K died accidentally from t wounds in the washroom ' P headquarters, "ters said they were bar- would not impede an armistice. day pondered the meaning of: Stolen Truck Fisheries Boat Sights Tuna Off Cape Beale "UNSATISFACTORY" "There has been much speculation recently as to whether the present situation in which Princess Margaret would be automatically regent would be fully acceptable in the event of such a marriage." The regency change will require approval of the other A high South Korean source " orders of Dr. John D. said late today that a U.S. state this fact to Ontario provincia In Short Order Quick action by the city de tachment of the RCMP yester- Commonwealth countries. cart, coroner, when jurors 'illce witnesses moved to 'lb scene in the wash-adjoining the detective ' room. n asked for a statement on Hons, reporters said Dr. ''""ad told them: "re wasn't room enough day resulted In the return of a Sources in Ottawa said they The apparent failure, of three high leaders of the Red Army to attend an important meeting of the Russian military nen in Moscow last week. The sudden eight-day postponement, of the meeting of the Soviet Union's parliament, the Supreme Soviet, which had been set last week for July 28 and now has been put off to Aug. ft. The Moscow meeting of the Red Army bosses was called to hear denunciations of Berlai, the deposed police chief formerly considered No. 2 man to half-ton truck to Northern B.C. believed Canada would assent to Power Company Ltd., which had j the change, and could do this by order - in - council. Confirming reported the vehicle missing at police. It was then that young Junm; reached the end of his tjuest. H was tprned over to US. imml gration authorities and Petrol, police, but not before he said h had learned that life la th RCMP was not for him. , "They don't even wear thei: red and blue uniforms except ii parades and stuff," Jimmy ex plained. "I sure am sorry I rai away. I only hope I can maki dad understand that I won't dt It again." legislation would be submitted 9:15 am. VANCOUVER (CP) Three persons aboard a Fisheries Department patrol ship have reported sighting a school of the elusive albacore tuna. It is the first time they have been seen for two years. First fished here in 1048, they became a $2,000,000 annual crop for three years. In 1951, the tuna disappeared. None have been seen til the sighting by the patrol vessel. f) ( " reporters inside and to Parliament at the next session. '' more, I don't give a damn me press. Dr. Whltbread denied PPorters were barred and nid not hear a police The truck had been parked in front of- the Northland Dairy, Sixth Avenue, when Northern B.C. Power officials noted It-was missing. Shortly afterwards police observed the truck travelling west on Second Avenue. The truck was stopped and the driver, Donald Keith Milne, 2t, of Terrace, was apprehended. Milne appeared In police court before Magistrate W. D. British officials noted that Changes Made In Salmon Fishing Here Three changes effective to y Play Feared appearance Rain Falls Over City for 13th Day; Weatherman Sees More night in fishing seasons were '), operator Wednesday SUSPeets f0Ul pWy nn m Vance, charged with taking a motor vehicle without consent of the owner, and the case- was remanded until July 30. '"H Wlin .t.hp ri ami. figure and send the July total announced here today by Department oX Fisheries officials. Weekly close season for salmon net fishing is extended to 72 hours In Nubs Fiver seine Z nls K-year-old wife "'i nome Monday Mnt t .. .J tner of five rhilrimn and gillnet areas' effective 6 voaraBe from 14 months to p.m. Thursday, July 23. Weekly close season Is' ex tended to 72 hours for all sat H'n said ho said this morning unsettled weather will continue over the northern half of the province for the next two days. In north coast ieioii, lie said variable cloudiness and a few showers will occur today and Friday, with little change In temperature. Winds will be westerly 15 today, otherwise light. Low tonight and high Friday t Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 50 and 62. , Today is the 13th day of tain in the past 14 days in this city and more wet stuff is forecast. , With the exception of July 21 when it was overcast most of the day it has rained every day since July 10. Officials at the Digby Island weather station said yesterday was the wettest day with .39 Inches of rain being recorded although today's steady downpour rriav equal or better that well past the figure of 2.98 Inches for July of, last year. Rainfall for the other 12 davs is as follows: July 10, .10: Juiy 11, .26; July 12, .24; July 13, .22; July 14, .05; July 15, .09; July 16, .60; July 17, .31; July 18, .39; July 19, .01; July 20, .23; July 22, .39. Total for the 13 days is 2.89 inches. The weatherman Is not too cheerful about his forecast.' He 11 Oil hlKlrmeo i Also appearing before Magistrate Vance yesterday was R. Parker who was fined $15 and costs on a charge of creating a disturbance by swearing. This morning Richard Letour-neau pleaded guilty before Magistrate Vance to a charge of driving- a motor vehicle while his ability to do so was Impaired by alcohol. He was fined $50 and costs or in default one month in Jail. mon net fishing in salmon purse seine Areas 6 and 8, effective 6 hn K ' d. pranged with his " lilfHL in th p.m. Thursday, July 23 fm.lrt Il,ll'd V. 1 c evening u find a babv sitw Twenty-four hours additional A THREE-LEGGED GOOSE has his "spare" shown by Mrs. Deane Stahmann Jr. at Stahmanri Farms near Las Cruces, N.M. Farm workers say the goose'ean waddle along and scratch his head without stopping. The fowl are used as hde hands in weeding cotton fields. - . close season Is in effect tonight In Rivers Inlet gillnet area for at 9 3o p m and hM een since. this week-end only,