Mb VDelirerv Phone 81 X PROVINCIAL LIBRARY rr,:ci..L :.r -1 OAAORROW'S (7 i TIDES mm sday. December 17, 1953 Mflc BtaraHru 10:22 21.6 feet 23:33 18.3 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL' BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 84 feet 17:15 4:09 3.6 feet Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 292 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS II ! 77 lies nan knrBai $. Deal Tactics (T Clbrfstoas ' Card Co mm o Wge Soften: J Cut Threat T()M MASTl-.llSON Iris (A p) - Th h Atlantic Council of Record Run Depletes Post Office Supply A crisis has struck the post office here and! postmaster Jack Burgess is crying-the blues . . .j .iters today went into ios.n sessions ol its iKi'tinjr considerably ehy the HiseTihow-jnini.stration's pledge ork for a sharing of J "Postage Stamp Blues." Why? Because there are no two-cent stamps here to sell. There haven't been any since late yes terday and there won't be any until sometime tomorrow and then only if the plane arrives from Vancouver. ' mr :ej States atomic tac-i with its 13 NATO j Loan held pro.i p c c t h of limited lie co-operation, raisea j In a record run on the pot; office In the past two weeks,! ! city people have bought 100,000 . i two-cent stamps. A rush order j of 10 000 went through . the wickets in just 24 hours yes- ! terday afternoon after they I j bv the U.S. Dc.'rn e . ry. Charles E. Wilson, j j csf trie sun-j ieii jay In NHA Plan Widened were rushed here by air fro.n , the south. A regular order of 10,000 two-cent stamps was due on the j Prince George today, but it did ; PltETTY MARGARET A HILLAMAN of Loevstad, Sweden, vocalizes on her father's farm after scoring a success In her singing debut In her native land. Possibly another Swedish Nightingale, she has received excellent press notices. Spcietary Eui.es' threat it th.it U.S. aid to Europe I ' if cut if the European isn't approved scon. on promised only that tht ! urc. be asked toj ve Idling the NATO mem- , luve "pertinent ' Informs- on huw to use the atomic : oj the U.S. Is building. He ; ot Siiy the allies might bo j tow to build them them- i not come . . . and the bewildered Mr. Burgess looked for someplace to hide, while would-be mailers lined up in the post office lobby, looking sadly at batches of Christmas cards they had hoped to post. The pot office ordered two- '' Bv The Canadian Prea OTTAWA Down payments under the government's new housing legislation will be reduced to 10 per cent from 20 per cent on the first $8,000 of the mortcaee value. City To Call For Tenders On Installation of Radio AN ANCIENT AND ORNATE STATE COACH, be ieved built by famous Florentine coachmaker Jesl In the 18th century, is moved from its storage space In preparation for shipment to the United States from Florence, Italy. Used for tha last time at the coronation of Pope Pius IX, the elaborate carriage is being sold to a New York antique dealer. did he offer to share ilomic weapons with any-tiu; rih.sprvers fjointed out The City of Prince Rupert will Jdnnthmn to the meetinK ; call for tenders for Installation giving a report of a special com- : cpnt stamps this year on the mlttee said merhbers thought I basis ol last year's 53165 of 9U.00 ' and thev were expected that an FM type radio telephone equipment was superior and j 10 last unt today. Works Minister Winter f2rnnnrf n UAnnn.('iare I nrrnrarnnA jtd (ineiKn. delence anri of one-base station frequency it ministers which would m.Kliiltion rnriln tlnhone and announced today. more w me cny s aavanuige r bi v iu4iifr .if the possibility of ship- two mobile units, one for the I than an AM unit. But, Mr. Lurgess says, people ambulance and one for the fire The FM system Is approximat tre two days ahead of them Down payments on portions! in excess of $8,000 will be 30 ; per cent, making for a gradu- j ated general reduction -from the! " ' i .1.. i ifnji . . i . i selves this year "as a result of! cijr mute biiati me nun uul As They Await Death Penalty Friday By LARRY II ALL ' since walking into the narrow only contact is .with the prison JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. I 'confinement of their solitary guards stationed Just outside The Greenlease kidnap-killers ' cells, where they can neither see their- cells and with occasional. j'omir weapons to Europe. ( the U S already has six .c cannons. HcMuhon energy la iharlng of U.S. atoiriic sec-::h foreign powers. Wilson tUtialower Is prep.irett to it was , thought the additional , good publicity" and the nrst expense could fee recovered with- ; batch of stamps disappeared t - i i i n!tkA rnait -Inst Mnnriav Aft.pr-i current 20 per cent now applicable to all National Housing ely council made the decision at the second la&t meeting of the year. Alderman H F. Olassey, chairman of the Utilities Committee, rr talk with one another The!-! carefully screened visitors spent part of their time today 111 n year mm uvn ycuuu ui ; 1 J Ai U lnun? years be built up to-supply a 1 "oon. wherf the situation- started "y?ana- - - substantial revenue to the city, to look grim. Mr. Burgess phoned - Under new .eglslatlon a pros- Mgre.ss to amend the law. vnnrn vpr inr an extra iu.uuu. kvwtc iwunwuiai - -v - T Trade. -licences were granted The stamps arrived on the after 2 were all :l : T T5 - i i plane Tuesday shortly new $10,000 NHA house with a down payment of $1,400 Instead of $2,000 currently requ'red. Monthly repayments will be l educed by extending the life they P "1' By 0 P Hht HollKArir .rvlrw Shear-i interview With Gouzenko Sef Over Until New Year downs SuDer-Service Ltd.. ser- ; ' was sent "flying" to irtA etotln onH narlrinv tnt ; A man MISSING MISSIONARY REPORTED ALIVE, WELL CHURCHUX, Man. (CP) A message has been received iere f- , by Rev. Peter Lessard of the Roman Catholic mission saying Rev. Joseph Bulliar,d, unreported for several months in his Barren Lands mission field, is in good health and that he does not' need supplies. lvJt . , . nnr4tr,r nmrfno no Inane r i meei ine ooai una mumiug una ...w. William Roy, taxi; Aubrey rush the stamps to the pott ! f nncipai cnange. nowevei. taxi; Walter Arnason, ! iSHINGTON i United authorities to a Soviet spy ring hut there were no! will De me wiaening oi me Collins, taxi. office mortgage-lending field, to. allow. clnmne Mr: RllfcrpvS tlfL.1 SPnt reading wiia west stories and working cross-word puzzles, outwardly nonchalant about their execution early Friday. Carl Austin Hall, 34-year-old playboy, and Bonnie Brown Heady, 41, his paramour, gave no outward signs of cracking before their death In the gas chamber. They pay with their lives, side by side, a few minutes after midnight Thursday night for the killing of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease which they planned before they kidnapped him Sept. 28 in Kansas City. , The only enigma of the crime left is what happened to half of the $600,000 ransom paid by Bobby's multi-millionaire father, Robert C. Greenlease. The miss- Council decided to buy a $200 ; tnotner frantic call to Van- refrigerator for the RCMP bar chartered banks and Quebec ; savings banks to make mortgage loans under a. mortgage- oouver and expects a special bhipment on tomorrow's plane. -s Senate spy hunters re- in Canada with connections in j i public hearings today! the U.S. mg a surprise announce-1 chairman William E. Jenner j that efforts to interview ;0f the Senate internal security Ginm-nko. former Soviet j sub-committee has been trying clerk, in Canada are being j to arraime an intctvlew with the Jed temnnnirtlv. i inmrprttAiflet clerk, now a natur- Insurance- system- to be admin istered by the governments Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Press Poll Shows American Readers Ignore World News pmMtM.MH6-ppro'"'otf lalized Canadian, seeking leads DISCUSS LOTTERIES A Commons-Senate committee is going to tackle the possibilities of abolishing capital Illy' Wallace racks; amend the Traffic Bylaw to prohibit parking In front of authorized sidewalk crossings; renew the lease for the Seal Cove air base with the department of Transport; sub-lease the floats at the air base to Queen Charlotte Airlines in order to ensure proper supervision; granted the Savoy hotel a loading zone in front of its entrance and granted Queen Charlotte Airlines permission to erect signs within the city pointing out the way to the air base. Council also agreed to supply a $5 Christmas bonus to married persons and $2 to single persons In receipt of social assistance. The city will be reimbursed by Mr. Burgess stressed mat me post office also is "out" of one-cent stamps although "there still are plenty of threes." FIRST FAILURE "This is the first time, we have failed to receive our weekly shipment of stamps on Wednesday," said the postmaster as he searched through his registered mail for the "missing two-cent stamps." Incoming mail has picked up too in the past few days. Double the normal quantity arrived on last night's train, and two mail trucks were required ms OCA ZURICH, Switzerland ( A poll of United States newspaper readers shows that 40 per cent of those questioned couldn't identify Georgi Malenkov as Russia's Dremier a month after punishment and whipping and ; ing money, which Hall has in-whether. lotteries should be per- i sisted he had with him when mitted in Canada. I arrested in St. Louis the night At the same time, the legal of Oct. 6, has become the object on any Communists who still may be in the U.S. government But Robert Morris, sub-committee counsel, said Tuesday the group so far has been unable to niiike any .final arrangements with the Canadian government. Today's hearing of the subcommittee was called to put Into the record additional Information from the justice department about the distribution of FBI reports on several former federal employees. defence of Insanity will be stu events abroad is low." The summary was contained in a book called The Flow of News, published by the IPI. An organization of editors in 32 countries, its study was financed by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. The reader poll was conducted for IPI last April and May by the American Institute of Public Opinion. Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Russian premier March of an inquiry by a federal grand he took office, the International Jury at Kansas City, the FBI and ; Press institute has disclosed. died by a royal commission. The twin attack on the knot 31 E. B. iWallyi Wallace, manner iiere for Queen le Airlines for the piust six to If i t by plane today for wer, to take a new poxl-T'th Granby Consolidated and Smelting Company. the St. Louis police board The average American, said IPI, reads "very little" of the 4Vi ASKS FOR MINISTER The killers have shown no apparent concern about their columns of foreign news printed daily by the average U.S. news- for the load off the George this ''toeing him here as base h rnrtmpnt. nf Health and morning. Mail handling this level of his important and 'the deaths, although Hall has asked paPer- an Episcopal minister, Rev. knowledge about Welfare on a 80:20 basis. iycar probably will set a record tiest problems in the Criminal Code was announced last night in the Commons by Justice Minister Garson. All parties later approved tho principle of revising the Criminal Code and the House gave second reading to a bill outlining the changes. C!ause-by-clause study will be taken up by the Commons after the Christmas recess. y The disclosure that plans to question Gouzenko had been held up came when Morris said Jenner had telephoned him that he was giving up efforts to arrange the Interview In Canada before Christmas. to stay with him "until the very jCBC 'Partner' in o. t The survey found 79 per cent of the Americans interviewed didn't know NATO means the North Atlantic Treaty TV Proposition VANCOUVER (CP) A. David- ena. Hall has been reading wild west magazines. Mrs. Heady has kept hiisv with crossword nuzzles in r is G. W. Lecers, who 'hero from Vancouver. Anally from Winnipeg, Mr. " has been with QCA for "yars as statistician in the er office. 'upects his wife and five- son to arrive here early uary. " Wallace expects to be ' t Stewart, making flights 'teOranby mine. ' 4 M 1 1 I The House edjourned until newspapers. Neither has shown I son Dunton, chairman of the Jan. 11 after debate on the pro any interest in hundreds of j Canadian Breaacasung . corp. Weather Station Queen Leaves . SAN FRANCISCO The posed changes in the National Housing Act. Mr. Garson said special study pounds of mail sent to them but board of governors, said Tues-destroyed by prison authorities j rinv thut chc-TV is in nartner- at their request. Fire Razes Abandoned Mill VANCOUVER (CD Flames shot 100 feet Into the air today as fire exploded through an abandoned sawmill in False Creek area and caused $50,000 of the four clauses, capital pun ship with private television stations to establish a TV network Both have gained weight since pnt.printr t.heir death row rplls Nov. 20, the day after they were 111 cauaua. convicted. Hall has said he has i Mr. Dunton, in Vancouver to Const Guard has announced that occ.vn station Queen, on the great circle route near the Aleutian chain, was withdrawn from service Tuesday. Only two U.S. ocean stations row remain ir the Pacific Knn haifwav between San about 20 pounds. Mrs. i officially open CBC's west j damage. gained Heady has put on about five. I q0(lst television outlet tonight, ineir laces are iun, iree oiiCBPX.TV channel 2, said ishment, whipping, lotteries and legal defence of insanity, will not hold up passage of the new code. The present Criminal Code has been in force 6f years. The four clauses as they now stand will be incorporated into the new code. -WEATHER- Forecast North coast region: Gale warning in effect. Cloudy with Intermittent light rain today and Thursday. Little change In tem Firemen from five halls and the city fire boat battled the blaze at the Robertson and Hackett mill for more than an hour. The mill, one of the oldest in the city, was in the process of being dismantled. wrinkles, and Mrs. Heady hasCanadian television, whether even Joked about the roll of fat j uubtic or private, is facing the she was told Hall has acquired j toughest competition in the around his midriff. world from TV in the United Neither has had any exercise States. VI Shopping Jk j Francisco and Honolulu, and Victor, hull way between Midway island and Japan. A Canadian ot.hpr shin. Ponna. is sta 1,000 miles west tioned about of Vancouver Building Trades, Wicks Hold Talks On Proposal For Holiday Stamp Books perature. Winds southeast 20, freauentlv reaching 35 in ex Ju"ior Chamber of Commerce Home Light-up Contest Entry Form We posed areas. Low tonight and high Thursday at Port Hardy and Prince " - j Rupert. 36 and 48; Sandspit, 42 and 48. ddi order to compute the number of days holidays owing them annually. Similar systems now are in force in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta. Herb Flescher of the Building Trades Council (AFL) said-following the meeting that council representatives had received a "very favorable hearing" from the minister The minister asked both management and worker representatives to make representations to the government concerning institution of the books. Mr. Flescher said the council and Industry representatives have held a number of discussions on the proposal, seeking means of arriving at a system that would be as free of "red tape" as possible. VANCOUVER (CPV-Industry and worker representatives from Vancouver's building trades met with Labor Minister Lyle Wicks here yesterday to discuss the proposed Institution of holiday stamp books in B.C. The books would be used to keep an accurate record of time worked by carpenters and other construction workers in S. FISHERMAN FOUND DEAD Richard Mattson, 80-year-old fisherman was found dead on his boat near Galloway Rapids this morning. Mr. Mattson, who lived on his boat in that vicinity for the past, three yt-Hrs, is believed to have died from natural en uses. ldemi; will commence December 20th. Mall your entry to: Liehi-up, 64 East Fourth, no later than December 19. This contest is made possible by various local merchants In co-operation with the Jaycees. KVOKO ANZAI, one of Japan's promising young movie actresses, doesn't go in for" the lazy relaxations. The pretty starlet prefers her motorcycle. Nineteen-year-old Kyoko has just completed filming "Half-Virsiu."