PROVINCIAL 6LW ARY p?.cvi;;i .!. lis1"?. ORROW'S TIDES- August 2d, mi 'siardard Time) 193 feet 209 feet 5.2 feet 4.0 feet .. 4:17 10:27 .. 10:14 23:01 Doily VpHvry Phon. 81 X NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published or Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 201 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS ""Til" 1 Mill )4MMm. CT3 '"- t 11 7 .n mil 11 u w u fn , mm MM if Mi .31 rat ; a . 1 . . , T- m T I r llrH ... :.j i il MJ :" . J :,l ; . -, ' ' j Capture Winds Up Two-Year Manhunt SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Two fugitive Communist leaders and three alleged satellites, charged with harboring them in a remote mountain hideout, were swept up in a dramatic" capture Thursday by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents posing as Mmnprs Firms Set To Sit Out Ship Strike MONTREAL (CP)-A strike which could tie up 99 per cent of Canada's f "V inland shipping: loomed as a certainty today. Shipping company . officials. Police Charge Prospector With Murder GASPE, Que. A burly, 37- A toot) START British Columbia's Pxcilic National Exhibition annual opening day racted mote than 100,000 spectators W;dnesday In Vancouver. PNE float (above l was this year's motto, "A Royal Show for a Royal Year." PNE runs through to Sept. 7. r i ll who met in Montreal Thursday, said they were ready to "sit out" any strike which may be called by the Seafarers' International Union. The companies said the union had "chosen a good time for us for the strike." They said little cargo was moving at the moment and it would be likely steamship companies would year-old prospector was charged Thursday with the murder of one Support of Chiang Mistake of three Ameriean bear-hunters A fourth follower was picked up late Thursday night, 100 miles away. All Were jailed quickly one of them in grim Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay. Sixteen FBI agents in campers' blue jeans caught Robert George Thompson and Sidney Steinberg ift a cabin 8,000 feet up in the rugged Sierra Nevada, about 200 miles east of San Francisco. Their arrest climaxed a relentless two-year manhunt. Thompson, one of the 11 top Communist leaders convicted in 1951 of violating the Smith Act. was rushed to Alcatraz. He disappeared two years ago when ordered to report to federal court in New York for commitment for a three-year prison term. He will serve that three years at another prison, the FBI said. who died in the Quebec wilds in s Editor Back from Red China June. The charge of murder was laid against Wilbert Coffin of nearby kMUSCO (APi Johni he was accused of being pro-1 the relationship of the United choose to tie up their vessels an American news- Communist, a mouthpiece for States to China. sooner than give way. VOTE ON MONDAY York Centre shortly after he was held criminally responsible for the deaths of two of the three returned Thursday ( Red China and of echoing the years of editing a i Red propaganda line of germ "We've missed the boat. By our actions, we've cut ourselves off from the vast market and hunters, whose bear-devoured Red China and re Earlier, orders for a strike vote went out to 6,500 members of the remains were found July 17 in the Gaspe mountainous wilder THIS IS A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH of Mrs. St. Laurent, wife of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, who was returned to power at the head of his Liberal government in the recent federal election. U.S. Plan For Peace Talks Backed by General Assembly ness, 65 miles west of here. SIU. The order for the coast-to-oist vote, to start at 11 a.m. Monday, following the union's rejection of conciliation board re Coffin is charged specifically with the murder of 11-year-old ed Stales has missed Asia." remained in Shaiig-wife, Sylvia, and two he Communists took iitinucd publication a Review, an Rng- Richard Lindsey of Hollidays- Steinberg, indicted with 21 friendship of the people in China. "By our support of the bankrupt government of Chiang Kal-ihek we've driven millions of Chinese and their leaders away from us." "I've read we spent $4,000,000,-100 on the Nationalists before they were driven off mainland. Forty billion wouldn't bring warfare, American Imperialism ud 'hf: l.k. He denied it. Admitting that his outlook and sources of information were limited under the Red government of China, Powell Insisted: "I called 'cm as I saw 'em. I never used the germ war charges in an editorial, nor did I accuse the United States of starting the Korean war I just didn't know.'.' If there was one thing Powell felt hn could comment on. It was burg, Pa. He was also held crim ports on its disagreement with four companies operating some iOO. inland and deep-sea ships. other "second string" Reds In 1951 on similar - Smith Act k r ,..1.1 .41 I I l,l. inally responsible for the death of 20-year-old Fred Claar. No mention was made of Eugene ,l.,t ,,f ,..,,,. ,t i. UNlTtlJ rmilUBS. Ci. I. inn uim lilt ramciciiLC muuui. charges was jailed here on $100,- t magazine his 000 bail. He will be arraigned twwn the union and the com-hThe UN 8eneral aSSCmbly ,t0day ' VS 1 UN mebeWhim i. . .i,- cttt Dmrf . anoroved U.S. demands for a supplied troops under the UN Lindsey, father of Richard, whose B. Powell, founded rs aiio. for removal proceedings to face remains were also found. trial in New York week. The men now Chiang back," he said. '.'While ! 40-hour Biwell remained in Communist countries on one i ain, Australia, Canada, Belgium The other three captured in work a 56-hour week. I! 'Jcr the lied regime. iide of the table and Red coun- iColombia, Ethiopia, France, the Sierra hideout were locked The effect of the strike could 'Phonci Workers tries on the other and with In- Oteee.i-iwi!jn. i.uxemMJurg. f in San J'. incisco on 35,0O0 spread to other ships and this New? Zealand, the Philippines, bail each. The FBI Identified i dia excluded. ' ; The assembly adopted the U S.- Budget 'Turning Point them as Carl Edwin Rasi, 40, a Out on Strike Minnesota Communist leader; the Union of South Africa, Turkey and Thailand. 2. South Korea. 3. By Implication, the Com sponsored resolution, overwhelmingly okayed by the- 60-country political committtee Thursday, belief was strengthened with word that Harry Kundeberg, SIU president at San Francisco, has promised support to Canadian seamen by 90.000 SIU members in the United States. amuei i. Coleman, , or New WASHINGTON (APi An esti- xoric, aescnoea as a veteran mated 10.000 teleDhone workers Solving U.S. Finances munist belligerents North Korea and Communist Chifia! ; ; Red and leader in the Commun- hn the Washington -area and In 1st Underground since 1951, and west Viriginia went on strike to- fcTON lAPt The 4. The Soviet Union; "provided administration has the other Communist side -de he conditions in China now .vould not ie very appealing- to n American and to us they vercnt the average Chinese is much better off now than under the Nationalists. Living is better and there are less restrictions." PoweU said China is now the :argest single market In the world, With an increasing standard of living she Is clamoring for manufactured goods. Miss McAffee Contest Winner This week's VIP contest winner Miss Mary N. McAfee, Box 190, Prince Rupert, named Bertram Russell as last week's very Important person. She won $22.30. new budget which It sires it." , day to Join, thousands of pom-munlcations workers of America members , already , striking In seven other states. ' The Washington-West Virginia walkout began at 8 a.m. EDT Mrs. Shirley Keith . Kremen, 21, a reported leader of. leftist activities in Los Angeles. Hoars after the first five had been arrested, FBI agents picked up Patricia Blau, 42, near Stockton,1 Calif., and charged day Is for fiscal year 1954 -July 1 this year to June 30 next year jimde the following major estimates: , The government will spend $72.100.(;00,()00 and have net ic-ci'ipts of (10.300,000,000. It will wind up the year with a deficit turning point" in to put the United The political committee ap ailment ih the black. proved an invitation for India by a small margin 27-21 but the approval fell far short of the ed that spending. after negotiations with the Irnd the national debt two-thirds majority required in her with harboring tives. the fugi- Chesaptake and Potomac Tele-phone Co. broke down Thursday. jl SJ.wm.imu uuu ana a nuuouui -WEATHER- Forecast North coast region Cloudy Saturday. Occasional d r 1 z z 1 e along the shorelines overnight and early Saturday. Fog patches over the water, occasionally moving onshore at night. Little change In temperature. Winds light. Low tonight and high Saturday at Port Hardy and Sandspit 50 and 60, Prince Rupert, 45 and 65. the 60-country assembly. The assembly vote today followed the l. ht of $271,100,000,000. But there wore indication.' e to be $2,000.0(10,000 end of the present Uian was previously i 1 announced Thurs- committee pattern, barring India from a place at the table. Woman Ordered To Leave Town Grace Green, held in the city I jail without bail after being ?om milted for trial on a charge of unlawful assembly August 2. appeared before County Court Judge W. O. Fulton yesterday afternoon and was given one year suspended sentence. Mrs. Green was given the opportunity of speedy trial rather hnn stay in custody ' unti Judge Fulton returns from his holidays. Judge Fulton bound over Mrs Green to keep the peace and be of good behavior for one year ordered her to leave Prince Ru-orrt within 24 hours and remain outside the city for one year. thnt the government was cautiously withholding possibly bet Signalman Saves Young Boy As Train Passes Over Them Her entry was enclosed on a sale slip from Wrathall's Photo Fin ter fiscal news. : It looked as if rrceipu badly overestimated ast yenr had been undcresU-nalrd this time. If It turns out m Used ishing, one of the VIP contests advertisers. Yikers that way. and spending estimates arc not off, the govcrn- BRISTOL, Eng. (Reuters) Two-year-old Adrian Grant Crawled onto the railroad track near here Thursday two minutes before the Bristol-Cardiff express was due. sprinted 150 yards to where the youngster lay. By then the express was roaring round the curve scant yaids away. Lovemore leaped on the child and fell between the tracks 'UtersilAolatcd la-Jiees and a nt'.v ' by oil und' rubb'H Oil Conference With U.K. Mooted by Iranian Premier Body Found In Skeena River A male body was found floating in the Skeena River near Cassiar cannery by Philip Turner, fisherman for Nelson Bros, at about 6 p.m. yesterday. RCMP said the body was in such an advanced state of decomposition that identification was practically impossible and no idea could be formed as to how long the body had been in the water.. P;-'y still prevented clutching Adrian tightly. He lay ' Retting back to The accused was also interdict motionless while the express thundered over his had at. 45 nciit would go less deeply in. the red. Tha new year-end national Jcbl figure was $1,300,000,000 lower than Treasury Secretary Gcorc Humphrey predicted i,v yongrevi as late as July 2'.). when he made an unsuccessful !ca for nn Increase in the leg.'l ifbt limit from the present $275,000,000,000 to $230,000,000,- joa. CAIRO (Reuters) Iran's new j In an interview given to the prime minister, Oen. Fazlollah paper's correspondent in Teh- i western France. In his signal box nearby, Colin Lovemore, 34, frantically flashed a "stop" to the onrushing train. But the express was already past the red warning light. He dashed out of his tower and ""t squads used Zahedi, announced thjit he will I ran, Zahedi said negotiations hold oil talks with Briifun in the ! with Britain would be conduct- ed and ordered not to consume liquor in any form whatsoever. Mrs. Green was not represented by eounsel. W. N. Poole appeared as prosecutor. '"ins against 3,000 1 stormed the cltv cd on the basis of the Iran oil miles an hour. , "It was too close to be comfortable," Lovemore said. "Jt was touch and go who would get there first, the train or me." As he carried Adrian back tc his signal box, the baby gurgled "choo-choo." r:'y ninht shoutinir nationalization law. second half of September, according to the newspaper Al Misrl here today. "" slogans. The law dispossesed the Bri r 'fill, at the big Sine Kiiuen, freight i ks stood idle again rail workers walked v in protest against of three cmyloy- 1 ' v-ui in the recent tish Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951. In London, the reported statement surprised official quarters. No plans for a resumption of negotiations on the Anglo-Iranian dispute have been mooted and the prospect of new talks is regarded as a distant one. The discussions between Zahedi and Loy Henderson, the United States ambassador in Tehran, about which Britain has been kept Informed, have concentrated on emergency aid to Iran officials said. Ues, workers at Rouen out by employers 11 the men did not ;!'y after they re-ll('"' jobs Thursdav. P the oil 1'pfinintr Planes Seek Two Lost Men FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) Eleven planes of the U.S. air force 10th rescue squadron and the Civil Air Patrol searched Thursday for a light plane which disappeared Wednesday night with two prominent Fairbanks men aboard. They were Marion Horton and Ace. Williams, both in the used car business. They took off from Big Delta, Alaska, at 7:35 o.m. in rainy weather to fly here. They were not heard from ntlustries were on a '' action" call today, '"t trade unions '-0 Call thorn F The first preparatory step to 5 - - , , f , . , , , J T - u - lit i L : x i 1 s. -hi: . I ' . "-Vx . ? ' ; if 1 ;, i- . 'j ' r..: . , v. . s 'J-;i ..-" - r. i . - v f w . i N ' ' , i . " fc. '.' .-A s employers retort, a an immediate pay francs or $8.50 "'"men and several " injured in i, resumed oil negotiations must be the restoration of diplomatic relations between London and Tehran, it is felt here. After that Britain would gladly take up the oil question again If there were hopes for settlement. 'c Wrs. again. Wife Dine hcouYer Recount Gives Seat to Hahn NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. 0 George Hahn Thursday re rpfi, if ,r u Couple Found Dead VANCOUVER n A retired Vancouver couple died of asphyxiation tn their gas-filled home Thursday. Police termed the death accidental and said a Jet on the gas stove had been left 'on. The body of Robert B. Milne, 86, was found in the kitchen and the body of his 78-year-old wife, Elsie, t(! found In the hallway. tained the New Westminster seat he captured for Social Credit in the Aug. 10 federal election with uwara n member of Par-Vancouver Quadra. "we Wednesday. I'e wlU be held in py United chnrcn THE DANISH FREIGHTER Else Basse was swept by fire off the west coast of Newfoundland and 24 men and a lone woman passenger were rescued by a Canadian vessel The fire was extinguished by two United States army coastal vessels which towed the Klse Hasse Into St George's Harbor Nflri TOM LATTER, 11, of Topeka, Kan., gives his three kittens a safety lesson before he sets them loose to play in his yard. Tom made th "CaiVul Cat Crossing" sign himself, to warn motorists that his kittens' lives are precious. He thought the measure were necessary after his pet cat was killed by a cr Inst, wintpr final figures in a judicial recount putting him 3b votes ahead of Llterl candidate WllliRm Mott,