1 PROVINCIAL LIBRARY Borrows Q 1 V!cbrT BJ C. PROVINCIAL LI2.?ASY, 110 VICTC3IA, 3. C. Ltides- . August 10, 1953 L standard Time) 5:07 161 fret 17:14 18.1 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 10:56 23:56 7.9 7.2 feet feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 190 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953 , PRICE FIVE CENTS .1 J" Iraioii CcrasSi on T, Daily Phone 81 O n i nflnnnrrvar? a iiiiaitiiiiit i tail XZ UUUIIUJU VWJ ft. U u Coach Falls 80 Feet Into Shallow River MANCHESTER, (AP) Two British trains crunched into each other atop a viaduct 80 feet over the River Irk today, killing 10 passengers and injur HT SfXTlONS of pipeline that will for n the first of the crude oil links across the Mackinac, near Sault Ste. Marie, Onv., are given last mlntue tests by workmen. The ing 50 others. One coach somersaulted into the river bed, landing upside j know they were even on a rail-jway track. We ran after them Emergency Declared At Fire Residents Pray For Rainstorm FORESTVILLE, Que. (CP) Uncontrolled forest fires burning on the north shore of the St. Lawrence river have brought about a state of emergency at Forestville and Ste. Therese de Col- t sections are being towed into place b a 200-ton pulling engine, located nearly four unt at the Lower Michigan peninsula. Straddiing the pipe at 80-foot intervals are , filled with compressed air. They will p event the 20-inch line from digging into the if the Straits. 1: ; . ... ' ""I "'I'M JL " , - i Jit i fan A i t r 1 y i Jrm V down after ripping a 30-foot and told them to sit on the grass." vd in City Hall Disturbance icribed as Ugliest Ever Seen" Flash Flood Kills 229 TOKYO AP The third flash flood to hit Japan this summer killed at least 229 persons, Injur ;,g trie crowa as me gap in the viaduct wall. An emergency call went out for acetylene equipment to burn into parts of the wreckage to reach "at least three persons believed trapped ln the coach. The river is .shallow at the isolated stretch of. track about a mile from Victoria station. :.. Breakdown gangs went to work almost immediately to remove the wrecked coaches from the main line. Exactly how the collision occurred was not announced. The crash derailed the engine and two coaches of a steam train running from Manchester to Bacup, 21 miles north -of this Midlands industrial centre, and three coaches of an electric have ever seen, In- pin is released. He said he threw a . report that another of the ihem at the feet of the crowd to accused, Jonasen, nad burned his avoid injury to anyone. Later he right hand. turned on the bur mnrhlne trim i ItnHnr miner ...nittnr Ku nn tylor, RCMP, yesterday i nee at the preliminary X ed 260 and left 103 missing today While unable to identify anyone garth, he said he did not know ' Omhitr, t eight persons charg- Mrticipating In an un- j The main file line is approxl-! maU-ly 25 miles away from this hembiy early Sunday throwing rocks, he said one why the crowd had gathered and glanced past the end of his nose said there could have been spec-and he saw one hit a peilce offl- tators, in addition to agitators. I August 2. mony resulted in dis- cei in the stomach. j both at Frizzell's corner where he case aamst one of Answering a question by de- the trouble started and at city i, James Slack. Earlier fence counsel Doug Hogarth, the hall. near the ancient Japanese capi-tol of Kyoto, Japanese national police reported. Incomplete reports to police said 680 houses were washed away. More than half of Kyoto's southern suburb of Ide disappeared in raging flood waters when swollen waters burst a dam east of the village. . A flood in the narrow tain valley of Kizu washed away the defendants. Mike Inspector said the police were Another witness, RCMP Set. s also freed. The ac- out of sight when the crowd first Stewart, told the court that the of emergency was declared when a small fire broke out in surrounding forests. It was quelled in short order, but police and Fire Chief H. R. Larhance said the emergency will only be lifted when "all 1 I iken by Magistrate W. arrived at the city hall. i disturbance seemed to get worse train to Bury, nine miles to the northwest. HURLED INTO RIVER 1 -r'virr"n"rf vVtii m i ii n iumi J . ... ... r. Some of the passengers were hurled into the river. Firemen found others trapped in coaches one-half of the village early this .t the request of crown I Another witness, RCMP Sgt. after the police were withdrawn. W. Brown. QC. ! Norman, declared the crowd He said Batt told him at the ill chaiRcd are John seemed "anxious to upset the scone Uwt the crowd wanted to MrKenzie, Earl Batt, law and order of this city." He "demand or discuss" their rights. reen, George Flewtn, estimated there were 600 persons He said the accused added that irvls, Simon Morrison In front of the city hall. He iden- ' everything would be OK if the d Mervin Jonasen. titled Mrs. Oreen as shouting RCMP got rid of Const. Wasson." ing that he has had 24 and using "profane and obscene" After further discussion about police experience, two language and said he received (Continued on page 3l morning, police said. danger is passed." The 2.500 residents of this centre grouped In the parish church Friday night to pray for rain to help the 575 men battling the major blaze along ths Riviere Sault au Cochon. Other casualties were reported MARLENE STEWART, 19, of Fonthill, Ont.', British Women's Amateur title holder Is shown being congratulated by her father after winning the Canadian Women's close championship at Sunningdale golf club at London, Ont. Today, Miss Stewart Is playing Barbara Romack of Sacramento In the finals of the Canadian Women's Open after a week of sparking golf which qiarks her as one of the finest women golfers in the amateur world, ISee story oji Pagq. four. t .,. The first news of the crash reached police when a man telephoned to say the steam enJ gine of the Manchester-Bacup train had "blown" up." Ambul from the nearby towns and vil were with the RCMP ances, fire engines and. heavy iiVPector Taylor, saidi,. There was another beacon of hope, too. A jam-maker has cranes rushed to the scene, lages. Kyoto . Is near Wakayama, which lost about 700 citizens ln floods - last month. Three- weeks -earlier, another 700 persons died in the floods of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. was URly In its man-, the "dirty language" ! Three of the Injured - were Red Prisoners Taunted, 4 Stoned by Korean Civilians taken to hospital in Manches He believed that If tear' ter and admitted with serious multiple Injuries. Eleven others tbeen used to disperse 1 is no doubt that some- 1 been called in from the US. and is expected to arirve here today by plane. Damage so far from the, week -long blaze that has reduced 50 square miles of forest $o ashes has been set at-Sl.000.oOo. Boy Stages Circus to Help-; In Battle Against Crippler . received treatment.... , . -The British Railways issued a have been hurt. very alarmed for the i PANMUNJOM AP United Nations command The freed from Communist prison said ! camps today, h : , '. Mishap Kills statement saying:. 'The :engine Dronertv nf thio fiiw I toaay jsouin Korean civilians. Forests in the.' district. 300 WlfJNIPEO '-iWhiie'provin-'; cietjr for .Crippled CMldrta. ,Rosi and two coaches . of the . steam train1 and three coaches of the Fifty Americans, all apparently hale and hearty, were among the group treed on this, the 11th day miles past of Quebec. City, con Stevedore T has had polio. Cial-'heaitrl' officials took a new Qf Slack came afUr inspector reported electric train were derailed.' All electric . line's .are ! blocked." ; stoned taunting Communist war prisoners! moving, north for .repatriation- Friday,' injuring 314 Reds nd nine American guards. The outbreak of violence near focused had approach- A Mahcltester newsp'aper man 'ti-polio step in Winnipeg hos-50 cypress, ranging in height frorn to 75 feet. Volunteer fire pital. a 13-year-old boy In sub-fighters, paid from 75 to 80 urban Fort Garry took a personal n me apparent Inten-: ng helpful and trying ' cente an hour under a Quebec j slap at the summer killer. - to. u .Wne , hoeS at this dusty village where said the collision occurred at a point at the beginning of the viaduct where the tracks converge. . LOUD BANG government plan through which with en-Earl Batt. SUPPLY ' ASSURED ' 'j . Dr. Elliott said the local committee is now assured of an adequate supply of gamma globulin. Children of married women acting as nurses for the duration of the epidemic will also be in-noculated. Deaths for the season across the! four western provinces mounted to 45 by Friday. The disease was behind its last year's pace In two of the provinces. ie accused. of. the prisoner exchange. , j The UN cdmmand said some 3,600 Red prisoners, flaunting banners and chanting Communist songs, hurled boots and metal canteens at South Korean bystanders as they were being taken by truck to a rail station from Inchon harbor. The South Koreans responded with rocks. Today's liberated Americans added to the stories of horrors ln i Red PoW stockaties. And Communist Peiplng radio continued i the war of words over the with One of the first rescuers on ' He described having t the head of the nrn- James H. Smith, about 30, of 1321 Overlook St., Prince Rupert, was killed instantly this morning at the Columbia Cellulose site when struck on the head by a sulphur hopper while standing up on a moving truck. Mr. Smith, an employee of the Pacific Stevedoring Co., was re-. ported to be riding on a truck from the gate to the dockside when the accident occurred. The open truck passed under the hopper, which was lower than the level of Mr. Smith's head. A shorter companion riding with him, Fred Viger, escaped unhurt. 'iiich moved on to city the scene, George Crowther, who resides 100 yards from the viaduct, said he heard a "loud bang" and then saw a coach in the river. Swim Gala Scheduled Tomorrow Dr. M. R. Elliott, deputy minister of health for Manitoba, met Friday with an epidemic specialist from the federal department of health and welfare, Dr. A. F. W. Peart. As a result, nurses treating polio victims will be in-noculated with the polio-preven-tative gamma globulin. In Fort Garry, Ross Wright took over a vacant lot, charged two cents for drinks, five cents for popcorn and staged a circus. He. cleared five dollars which was immediately donated to the So- companies share 50 per cent of expenses, are using tractors, pumps, picks and axes. . Two lumber camps, one of them brand-new, have already been engulfed by the flames. Other outbreaks were reported in the Lake St. John- Rober-val, Chicoutiml and Gaspe districts, most of them of a minor nature but also in great part out of control. Most of the outbreaks have been blamed on careless blueberry pickers. Mr. Batt who was ' the( crowd, and he 't I might consider he Nice offlciHl relatPrt There were men, women and Manitoba, where Incidence was later last year, was bounding far ahead with 13 deaths in 767 cases thev riiri nnt hi,. Wpathpr Tirrinilliiiir. there children, frantically trying to escape from the coaches," he said. "One child was walking about I" the pli,:e. should be plenty of fun and ex- compared to 179 cases last year. to hear their com-' citement at McClymont Park to-n,y oifc.e at a morp morrow afternoon when the awe and asked him to Prince Rupert Parks board stages holding of some prisoners. COMMUNISTS PROTEST Peiplng said the Reds had protested to the armistice repatriation commission against what it called "the forcible retention of a number" of Communist prisoners due for repatriation. in a dazed condition crying 'mom.' " Another rescuer, Joe Beckett who pulled two dead from one Vancouver's Isolation hospital was filled with polio cases as 18 new sufferers turned up this week including two In Victoria Friday. The province totalled Mr. Smith, who came from Terrace about 12 years ago. was a veteran of the Second World War and served overseas with the paratroopers. He Is survived by his wife and two children, Lorraine and crowd He said he lts second annual swimming 'hat he rnnlri rr. I ffala. f'less slated he shook There will be novelty events, of the coaches, said he saw several people walking along the The broadcast accused the UN j track so dazed "they didn't .Batt nt as a gesture swimming and diving competl-ou' as a bond of good tions. Parents will also have the ! opportunity of seeing the pro- 223 cases and seven deaths compared to 105 with three deaths at the same time last year. Officials are not unduly concerned as the incidence is scattered and no jjuestlnning bj defence 1 Sress made by their children in f" wuia Ray, he saidne swimming classes given by outbreaks of epidemic proportion command of "brutal treatment" and murder Of Korean and Chinese PoWs. The Reds also protested that the UN command "had been imposing restrictions obstructing the work" of Communist Red Cross teams visiting UN camps. nope" that Batt i Miss Marilyn White, pool m- Political Education Body Urged at TLC Convention are reported. -,v t: p f lis. . ai he KMiH n4i gtrnnlFBco i ULIin - Jv. uv.i f" tlOt have let him on I -,..,,. ,m l ( Ia oil onH f "B ine use of tear-gas, j there will be treaU for the An acute shortage of physiotherapists ln Winnipeg prompted an appeal to Britain and two British therapists are to be provided as soon as possible. The broadcast said the protests t am tne bombs children. The meet starts at 2:30 'tensely hot once the p.m. OTTAWA H Canada's biggest central labor body, the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, were lodged Friday and that an explicit answer was demanded j within three days. j Is moving cautiously towards The UN command Friday told the Reds to say definitely wheth between the central labor organizations in these countries. Besides the TLC and the 350,-000-member CCL, these Include the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor with 100,000 members and the Independent Rail Brotherhoods with around 40,000 more. The TLC executive which favored the convention resolution now has modified its view. It accepted a convention declara- East Escapes Main Storm er they plan to withhold any Al am Makes Big Payment Loan To Be Ended in '58 The U n 1 1 e d the dollar proceeds from the sale nas agreed to Dav the of Canadian securities held by political action and fusion with other union organizations. However, It has turned down an attempt to associate itself with the CCF ln the political field. The moves came at Friday's session of the 580,000-member TLC's annual convention here, attended by 600 delegates. On the political side, the dele " " - I jj'id Ilk ::": x- N Portion u Rrlt.lsh inventim niratnst, the in- I , lw, i'iti-s r. BOSTON (AP) New England escaped the brunt of the northbound hurricane today as the gale moved out to sea south of Nantucket, but coastal areas were luan by 1958 through terest-free loan, Mr. Abbott said lied prisoners. The UN has made no mention of a Communist protest. SMALLEST GROUP Today's group of 50 Americans was the smallest returned so far by the Reds. Fifty Britons and 300 South Koreans also were repatriated Saturday. The RoKs freed today stripped off their clothes as parting defiant gestures at their Red cap ition that It explore "further iuate lumn ln a statement. n Jc ooo nnn :..?ay.ment of The 1942 loan, made by Canada Ipavnwni;". -.equal to Britain before the wartime gates re-affirmed the TLC's old non-partisan stand, but asked the executive to set up a "league for political education." A simi I next Mnrilv, v ' 00 mutual aid program developed, Steps" towards unity. A. R. Mosher, CCL president. Friday night welcomed the move of the rival body and said he does not care who the officers of a united congress would be, hit with heavy rain. At 6 a.m. EDT the hurricane centred a short distance east of Nantucket Island. The centre Abbott L ,nce totalled $700,000,000. Britalfi i """"Lea yes- aBreed to nav off the loan by applying ajuiinst it the dollars was moving east northeastward about 20 miles an hour, the hi Canadtt has I " a Dlfrino sno ooiainea irom me bmic ui m- K'tage to apply vestments In Canada. The loan tors. Four American marines had to grab one South Korean who tried to kick a Chinese he spotted at the exchange point. has been Interest-free. The arrangements worked lri Canada's favor. Faced with heavy Anny Seeks 00 Men debts as a result of the damaging I -WEATHER- lar league exists ln the American Federation of Labor, big United States ally of the TLC. In Canada, the Canadian Congress of Labor has a hook-up with the CCF, which it describes as the "political arm of labor." An attempt to have the CCF so designated by the TLC was defeated Friday. A closed liaison between the two big congresses was suggested in a resolution adopted by the TLC, which proposed a "uo raiding" policy and expressed the hope of eventual organic unity GTON . .V........ ..v.. . .-s-..-.x-W,.V.V...). j..-.. ........ .. ... -nifc, ..... . .... v- ... 1 muk ilu. . Bear Kills Child FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) A three-year-old boy was mauled to death this week by a bear, a "pet' 'of the family. The victim was Andrew Mark Palmer Jr., S, of Pine Springs Camp, about three miles west of here. Tne bear Was three years old and was considered to i household pet. , weather bureau said. Highest winds were estimated at 75 miles an hour over a small area near the centre and gales extended outward 100 miles. Cape Cod and Nantucket had gusts up to 60 miles an hour just before dawn at the peak of the storm. The weather bureau said the centre was expected to be almost 200 miles east of Cape Cod at noon. I issued a i riroTI U S many of her North American !n "n Octnh, i..ca11 for holdings to gain dollars to meet rber of m i , 0 tne Thus, in the matter'of 11 years, Forecast Cloudy and cooler Sunday with a few light rain showers. Winds southeasterly 15 in exposed areas, otherwise light. Low tonight and high Saturday at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Princt Hupeit. ati nun B4. THE BODY of William Atkinson, 19, of Tillsonburg, Ont, lies en the sidewalk as police question Allan Pidgeon, also of Tillsonburg, after a 90-mile-an-hour chase through Toronto streets. Atkinson was thiovin from a stolen cur after a pursuing police cruiser sideswlped it. Pidgeon, injured when the stolen car turned over, was charged, with attempted murder. :d 'r lndupf or the outstanding portion of the 'PUun uf kb! , Slnce loan was reduced by $bli,uoo,uuu f ffuihcf CMve "w-ltQ $189,O0u,0U0, Uie uinoimtBiit rtin must sun pay. i