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"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XLII,
No.
293
'
PRINCE
RUPERT.
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER
17,
1953
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
1
1
IPfotitSDiG
onfiBSses
I
Say
Brass.
USSE
Ute
mm
MSI
V
Ik
Strike
Former
Police
Boss,
Aides,
Facing
Trial
By
RICHARD
KASISCHKE
Asraclated
Pmm
Stall
Wiltrr
MOSCOW.
The
Soviet
government
announced
Hi.
-
h
-n
j
today
that
Lavrenty
P.
Beria
has
confessed
to
plot
Threat
I
Ends
!
By
The
A.sHocialed
Pn:wj
t
LONDON.
A
union-i
manage
me
nt
agreement
has
ended
the
threat
of
A
Christmas-time
railway
strike
throughout
Britain.
V
The
two
sides
agreed
Wed
7M
!
ting
against
the
state
and
will
belaced
on
trial
with
six.
key
members
of
the
police
network
he
headed
for
15
years.
,
7
'
"
'
The
official
announcement,
published
In
the
government
;(lis
M
.VI
Kit
MIIH.l,,
so
big
It
looks
like
a
fer.ls
wheel,
was
erected
on
Perry
Creek.
15
miles
nrih
of
Cranbrook,
B.C.,
In
1933
when
placer
miners
were
crowding
Perry
Creek
for
gold.
Jl
from
11.000
board
feet
of
lumber
It
powers
two
pumps
used
to
drain
seepage
from
a
mine
jC
feet
ckcp.
When
built
the
wheel
was
considered
the
largest
of
1U
kind
In
North
America.
;
is
32
feet
in
diameter,
has
a
seven-foot
face
width
and
72
built-in-buckets.
:
r
1
m
t
...
.
r
'5
r--
f
5
i
newspaper
Izvestia,
said
the
Soviet
state
prosecutor
has
completed
his
case
against
Beria,
Premier
Georgi
Malenkov's
top
deputy
until
his
arrest
June
26.
Moscow
radio
said
the
seven
men
will
be
tried
at
a
special
sitting
of
the
Soviet
Supreme
Court.
It
did
not
say
when.
The
government
announcement
said
Beria
and
his
associates
aimed
at
using
"the
organs
of
the.mlnlstry
of
internal
iffairs
.
.
.
against
the
Communist
party
and
the
government
of
the
U.S.S.R.
in
the
interests
of
foreign
capital
.
.
.
nesday
night
to
a
sweeping
review
of
wage
demands
by
400.000
members
of
the
powerful
National
Union
of
Railway-men.
The
union
said
It
will
Insist
on
minimum
wage
increases
of
not
less
than
seven
shillings
n
week.
The
British
Transport
Commission,
which
runs
the
Queen
Drinks
Potent
Native
;rew
on
Arrival
in
Suva
nationalized
railway
system
had
previously
refused
to
grant
boosts
of
more
than
four
shil
VVA.
Fl)i
Islands
t
-Queen,
chested,
grass-skirted
Fiji
men
ter
of
a
commander
of
the
Fi
lings.
The
agreement
provides
foi
an
Immediate
minimum
wag?
iy!h
drained
a
coco:,mU
;
whirl
clubs
and
spears
In
war
i
full
of
potent,
so
ipy-tast-
danres,
and
heard
200
gar-
i
to
grab
power
and
to
liquidate
i
the
Soviet
worker-peasant
re-'
glme
with
a
view
to
restoring
LLA
s
l
'kava"
today
as
thousands
,
landed
men
and
women
sine
Increase
of
four
shillings
a
week
jian
battalion.
The
child
presented
a
bou-ouet
as
big
as
herself,
backed
three
paces
and,
in
a
Fijian
demonstration
of
respect,
at
down
and
bowed.
Then
she
capitalism
and
securing
the
domination
of
the
bourgeoisie
tmiddle
class)."
Beria,
who
headed
Russia's
flapped
her
hands
three
times.
THIS
GERMAN
YOCjN'GSi
EK
enjoys
some
of
the
goodies
to
be
found
on
the
"Toy
Tree,"
a
special
Christmas
toy
exhibition
with
which
a
U.S.
sector
department
store
In
Berlin
Is
getting
the
Jump
on
the
opposition.
Hanging
from
the
tree
are
many
of
the
items
most
Children
would
like
to
find
under
their
Christmas
tree
on
Christmas
morning.
and
negotiation
of
a
further
Interim
increase
within
the
next
six
weeks.
At
present,
rail
workers
get
r.n
average
weekly
wage
rate
of
about
8
lis.
The
unions
originally
demanded
a
full
15-per-cent
in
police
activities
from
IU33.
un
Thousands
cheered
as
the
rt-d
her
arrival
In
the
Fiji,
island
songs.
,
r,d's
'
!
First
to
greet
the
monarch
m
royal
libation
was
a
pop-
.
ere
11
u
ma
maJor
lor
chieftains
cmeltams'
who
wno
rush
spot
of
the
opening
mm
in
the
two-day
visit
boarded
the
ship
to
pay
homage
:1k
Pacific
island
colony
oi
l
as
their
ancestors
did
to
Im-Coniniotiweali
h-tourin;
portant
visitors
centuries
ago.
:,rch
and
her
husband,
the
The
Queen's
first
welcome
:e
of
Edinburgh.
i
ashore
came
from
Mel
Hainona
:h
Queen
watched
bar?-'
Ganllau,
three-year-old
-daugh-
THE
COMMONS
today
ap-day
appointed
E-
T.
Apple-whaite,
MP
for
Skeena,
as
deputy
chairman
of
the
committee
of
the
whole
House.
His
appointment,
made
on
the
motion
of
Prime
Minister
St.
Laurent,
is
for
the
present
sessjon
only.
til
his
arrest,
was
first
deputy
prime
minister
and
minister
of
royal'
couple
"'drove
through
Suva's
crowded
streets
to
Albert
Park
for
the
welcome.
crease
which
transport
officials
Addressing
her
subjects,
the
I
internal
affairs
under
Malen-!
kov.
I
'The
statement
said
Beria
and
j
his
associates
"admitted
their
guilt
of
having
committed
a
Queen
promised
to
"constantly
l
said
would
add
an
extra
31,-watch
over
your
welfare
and
i
000,000
to
the
yearly
wage
bill.
pray
for
your
prosperity
In
1
Labor
Minister
Sir
Walter
;
"
''-i"Monckton,"-'Who
succeeded
in
years
to
come."-'
-
-
,.v
i.,.i
-h
i..,i
,iiverting
the
strike,
knocked!
Killers
Tof
-
Greeiilease"
Boy
Regret
Mistakes
Not
Crime
LIQUOR
STORE
TO
OPEN
AT-NIGHT
NEXT
WEEK
:
,
The
government
liquor
store
here
will
be
open
evenings,
throughout
most
of
the
festive
season,
starting
this
Saturday
night.
.
.1;
,.
The
store
will
be
open.from
10
a.m
to
9
p.m.
December
19,
21,
22,
23,
24
and
31.
Usual
closing
time
is
6
p.m.
'
The
night
opening
here
is
in
line
with
procedure
through-out
the
province.
The
liquor
control
board
has
ordered
the.
night
shift
at
liquor
stores,
for
the
first
time
in
B.C.;
to
relieve
the
annual
Christmas
congestion.
''
the
throne
a
weU
known
brl"
''""h,'"
intens.ve
negotiations
his
phj
-
beyond
these
shores."
slc'a"s
"closed
today
Then
came
to
kava.
with
the
ordered
the
62-year-o
d
chief,
clapping
In
time
as
she
.
Jhey
.
lawyer
to
take
an
immediats
drank
5.u
i
Anb
1
rest
to
cure
an
influenza
attack.
The
duke
also
drank
the
po-,
,,,
,
Monckton
refused
A
to
to
bed
.
.
n..
..,,
,wiw
,),,.
go
tent
native
brew,
which
three
i,.,
with
...
the
,
illness
th
throughout
h.
tv,
the
By
AL
DOFKING
,
knocked
on
his
hotel
door
in
St.
Louis
Oct.
8.
-,.
iEFFERSON
CITY,
Mo.
I
An.ti.,
u..ir.
iut
riuu
u,!b
.
But
as
death
In
the
gas
cham-
I
i
uiday
with
regret
not
ber
came
closer,
neither
Hall
nor
chiefs
had
prepared
in
a
huge
wooden
bowl.
negotiations.
that
he
kidnapped
and
Mrs.
Heady
had
taikea
aoout
td
little
Bobby
Oreenlease,
we
Dig
remaining
myswuj.
i
number
of
,
the
most
,seriouj(
.stale
crimes.''
It
declared
that
Beria
had
been
committed
for
trial
on
charges
of
high
treason,
organizing
an.
anti-Soviet
plot,
and
counter-revolutionary
work.
.
Similar
charges
were
listed
against:
-
j
v
,..
I
V.
N.
Merkulov,
former
min-Kter
of'
state!
"security
and
BeriaV
deputy?"
Tf.i
1
0."
Dekano-2dv
and"S.'
a;
Goglidze,
both
iormer
ministers
of
Internal
affairs
in
Georgia;
P.
Y.
Meshik,
former
minister
of
internal
affairs;
L.
E.
Vlodzimirsky,
former
head
of
the
investigations
department;
B.
Z.
Kobulov,
former
Soviet
deputy
minister
of
internal
affairs.
The
statement
said
Beria's
"traitorous"
activities
went
as
far
back
as
the
Russian
civil
war
of
1918-20
when
he
"had
established
links
with
foreign
intelligence
services
.
.
,"
The
Queen
was
presented
!
with
many
gifts
including
prts-1
w!;ATjCB
WcAl
ntK
ents
for
Prince
Charles
andj
North
Coast
Fiegion:
Cloudy
Princess
Anne.
with
Intermittent
light
rain
to-
Flve
hundred
skirted
FIJians1
day.
and
Friday.
Mot
much
carrying
lighted
torches
ran
change
In
temperature.
Winds
alongside
tonight
as
the
Queen
southerly
15
today
Increasing
to
that
his
wild
gamble
for
What
nappenea
to
tne
mining
half
of
the
record
4000
000
ran-pcndir.g
irtrhe.
was
lost
In
a
drunk-
s"m
money
they
collected
from
T
,7
spree.
.
Bobby's
71-year-old
father
after
v.-
i
frw
cells
away
from
htm
"
had
yalready
klUed
and
iiruw
his
paramour,
Bonnie
...
'
,h.
,lttB''hv
m
Mrs.
Rain
Passes
100-Inch
Mark
Here
Prince
Rupert
has
passed
th-?
100-Inch
mark
in
precipitation
this
year.
....
,.
The
total
for
the
year
Tups--day
morning
was
99.9
inches
and
fine
weather
on
that
day
failed
to
change
the
figure.
But
yesterday's
rainfall
added
.71
inches
to
pass
the
100
inch
mark.
However,
the
meteorological
station
at
Digby
Island
reports
"that's
nothing"
and
goes
on
to
prove
it
with
figures
from
former
years.
They
quote
precipitation
totalling
132
Inches
in
1923,
126.48
inches
in
1913.
117.81
in
1932,
and
several
other
years
over
the
100
mark.
However,
they
did
admit
Lhat
this
year's
fall
is
a
little
more
than
average,
quoting
98.23
inches
as
the
average
for
a
28
year
period
ending
in
1936.
And
they
were
ashamed
to
admit
that
there
has
been
only
5.4
hours
of
sunshine
to
datt
this
month.
and
the
uuxe
arove
in
an
open
25
Friday
morning.
UllcltTe
.r
;
Heady',
back
yard
in
S,
Joseph.
Son
Accused
of
Murdering
Wealthy
Parents
With
Poison
NEW
YORK
Howard
Fra-
that
didn't
exist,
den,
20,
was
accused
today
of
Wepman,
who
also
lived
lav-murderin!?
his
parents,
to
g?t
,
ishly
on
the
slain
couple's
their
$100,000
wealth,
by
spik-
j
wealth,
stood
in
a
hallway
out-lna
their
champagne
wit
h
poi-:
side
the
apartment
as
the
le-
car
to
a
state
ball
at
the
Grand
Low
tonight
and
high
Friday
ii
Carl
was
broken
up
In
a
A
reaerai
granu
jury
i.
rwn-sas
City
is
looking
for
that.
So
are
the
FBI
and
the
8t.
Louis
Pacific
Hotel
here.
(See
earlier
story,
Page
7)
'king
crime.
at
Port
Hardy.
Sandspit
and
Prince
Rupert
42
and
48.
killers
die
tonight
in
the
police
board.
The
board
s
inquiry
e-uumoer
a
lew
minuies
aner
..
wj-
f
h
rrest.
ht
for
killing
six-year-old,
'ro.rH
,
Ueut.
louis
F
iiy
a
few
hours
after
his
kid-;
Wig
Sept.
28.
.
,
Shoulders
that
he
resigned.
Hall
and
Mrs.
Heady
will
wear
regulation
prison
clothing
when
th
have
written
ta
the
mul-
"illlonaire
Grecnlease
family
they
are
taken
a
quarter
oi
son
as
all
drank
a
toast
to
his
thai
toast
was
drunk.
Fradeni
new
Job.
later
admitted
him
to
the
apart-
The
case
had
been
considered
;
ment
to
witness
the
death
a
double
suicide
or
a
.murder
j
scene.
and
suicide
for
four
months,
j
Fraden
and
Wepman
left
the
until
a
girl
started
talking.
;-,rartment
Uicether.
taking
District
attorney
George
B.
de
,
Blo!1K
the
son
s
tcll-tale
glass,
Luca
said
Fraden
will
be
chart;-;
utaintd
with
poison,
to
de-
H
i'lth
VinmiriHn
in
the
rtent.hsi...
it
Off
N
iunsas
C'itv
asking
forgive-
.,,
k
,.tnm,hii
fmm
death
And
both
asked
for
spirit-
,
...
.hfi
iethal
eas
ohamber
-
CMHisei
i
their
fiiuU
nimrs
tonight.
For
Mrs.
Heady
that
will
6
"l
be
a
green
cotton
aress
ana
"Vials
say
Hull
is
sorry
only
:
gruff-type
sandals.
t
his
plans
for
auick
and
easy
.
Hall
will
be
dressed
In
green
!
.......
ft
nJy
n.
j
of
his
parents,
Dr.
William,
two
da
vs
later
they
returned
1
Fraden,
5S,
and
his
wife.
Shir
!
to
tne
apartment
together
and
:
ley,
50.
'
"discovered"
the
bodies.
mere
Jti
i-i
ashed
In
the
bie
that
nnnlH
and
shirt.
He
will
go
Into
1
'
nis
arrest,.
the
eas
tank
bareiooi.
(if
Shopping
Hie
34-year-old
Hall
had
been
'
In
their
last
hours,
the
once-
Qoys
FIREMEN
TRAPPED
CHICAGO
IM
At
least
eight
firemen
were
reported
trapper
in
wreckage
of
a
small
west
sidt
hotel
which
was
swept
by
,
f
ire
here
today.
1
1
""(l
as
saving
that
he
planned
eay
lovers
will
nave
a
nnai
umv
'"Mrs
lleadv,
next
and
that
in
death
row.
De
Luca.
said
Fraden
and
n
?
The
deaths
were
unsolved
unfriend.
Dennis
Wepman.
23,
I
til
a
girl
friend
of
Wepman
went
unemployed
writer,
"planned
i
to
authorities.
Wepman
had
told
the
murder
of
Fiadcn's
parents
;
hr
of
his
"complicity
in
this
for
some
time."
thing,"
and
she
became
worried
Wepman.
also
facing
a
homi-j
about
her
knowledge
of
a
crime.
't!l
Christ
mas
Had
vriu;r.f(
t,oUr
in
ho
tuken
Roth
are
reported
outwaraiy
..
..
Hi
"
llw
"
.
I
WWMTTCV
f-
Now
Hall
snys
his
pro-;
calm.
They
have
been
eating
ioou
MtiwiiMwiK.
m
spiee
made
him
too
fuzzy
taken
to
mem
irora
urc
lize
clearly
what
was
hap-
mess
and
for
their
last
meal
they
clde
charge,
made
a
eomple.e
,
confession
but
Fraden
was
un-
j
co-operative,
the
district
attor-
j
ney
said.
j
World
Today
Celebrates
50th
Anniversary
of
Povered
Flights
-
'm
-
-ar'-'t
1
1
-
..I,-,.
-S
v
4
x
7
"TJ
Fraden
was
seized
by
uttec-tives
yesterday
in
his
$200-a-
month
hotel
room.
H
when
arresting
officers
ordered
a
chicken
dinner.
Pioneer
Railroader's
Son
Opens
New
Food
Market
Prince
Rupert-born
man
ables
and
meat.
.
Chard
work
find
singleness
Spero
was
born
35
years
ago
Purpose
it
reflected
in
the
in
this
city.
His
father
came
to
De
Luca
said
Fraden
had
been
the
50th
anniversary
of
powered
flight
,said
about
1.000
Wright
Day
luncheons
arid
dinners
are
being
held
around
the
world.
KITTY
HAWK,
N.C.
(fl
Aviation
celebrated
its
golden
anniversary
throughout
the
world
today,
but
especially
here
at
the
place
of
Its
birth.
The
RAF
Canberra
Jet
bomber
ss
of
his
business
opens
Prince
Rupert
in
907
when
uie
Old
friends
of
the
Wright
brothers,
early-day
flying
students,
relatives,
Carolina
na-,
tives
who
knew
of
the
inventors,
which
won
an
England-to-New
Zealand
air
race'
last
October
landed
for
refuelling
at
Gander
en
route
to
join
in
celebrations
at
Kitty
Hawk.
nd-new
store
tomorrow.
CANADA'S
DEEP-SEA
MERCHANT
NAVY,
after
several
postwar
years
of
prosperity.
Is
flying
distress
signals.
The
federal
government
Is
considering
a
request
from
ship
owners
for
authority
to
sell
most
of
the
Canadian-owned
vessels
in
view
of
a
Nov.
12
government
decision
not
to
subsidize
operations.
Two
laid-up
ships
are
knehored
in
Halifax
harbor.
w
1'osl.ulo.
son
of
a
Plo
timed
to
coincide
with
the
half-century
ogservances
of
tru
Wright
brothers'
first
flight.
At
San
Diego,
Calif.,
a
big
flying
boat
today
became
the
first
airplane
introduced
to
trie
world
as
the
second
50
years
.of
powered
flipht
began.
The
R-3YI
seaplane
transport,
built
for
tiie
United
States
Navy,
was
set
for
launching
at
about
the
same
hour,
tialf
a
century
later,
as
the
Wright
brothers'
historic
flight.
Consolidated
Vultee
Aircraft
Corporation
said
the
new
plane
is
the
fastest
big
flying
boat
in
the
history
of
aviation.
Its
top
speed
is
figured
at
more
than
Grand
Trunk
Pacific
was
being
constructed
into
the
city.
His
father
was
also
well
known
as
the
proprietor
of
the
Royal
Hotel
which
he
operated
up
until
about
1935.-
Spero
attended
Borden
Street
and
Booth
scnools
and
got
his
,,1'iin
Int.
roduction
to
business
living
luxuriously
on
the'
inheritance
from
his
parents,
had
purchased
a
Rolls
Royce
for
$18,000
and
planned
to
go
to
England
to
pick
up
the
car.
Wepman
was
quoted
as
saying
Fraden
poured
more
potassium
cyanide
-
into
his
parents'
mouths
after
they
collapsed
from
the
poisoned
champagne.
DeLuca
said
he
also
got
his
Information
from
Wepman:
Fraden,
falsely
telling
his
parents
that
he
had
obtained
a
job,
gave
them
the
poisoned
champagne
on
the
night
of
Aug.
19
in
their
apartment.
The
son,
out
of
the
sight
of
his
parents,
spiked
their
champagne
in
the
kitchen
and
then
returned
to
the
living
room
to
join
them
in
a
toast
to
the
Job
;(
railroader
of
this
district.
a
dream
come
true
when
"fw
food
market
opens
Its
,to
customers
In
his
new
gist's
between
Eighth'
and
""i
avenues
on
McBride
rt.
two-storev
hiillriinir
will
The
speedy
twin-engined
bomber,
which
left
Aldergrove
airfield
in
Northern
Ireland
early
today,
will
be
among
the
planes
assembled
at
Kitty
Hawk.
The
crew
members,
Fit.
Lt.
R.
L,
E.
Burton,
pilot,
and
Fit.
Lt.
P.
H.
Gannon,
navigator,
also
operated
the
plane
on
i(s
prize-
and
notables
of
the,
aviation
fraternity
gathered
to
pay
tribute
to
Orville
and
Wilbur
Wright,,
the
glider-minded
bicycle
makers
from
Dayton,
Ohio,
who
came
to
Kitty
Hawk
in
quest
of
good
and
steady
winds.
Other
groups
in
other
towns,
and
in
other
lands,
planned
similar
gatherings.
In
Washington,
aviation
sci
evervt.hinir
in
llio
univ
nf
rn
conveniences
fnr
the
when
working
for
James
Klllls.
owner
of
the
confectionery
store
and
poolroom
at
Premier
Mines
between
1935
and
1942.
Later
he
worked
in
the
shipbuilding
projects
at
the
Prince
Rupert
dry-nb
hefnre
buying
the
small
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce
Home
Light-up
Contest
Entry
Form
Name
Address
Judging
will
commence
December
20th.
Mall
your
entry
to:
Jaycee
Light-up,
642
East
Fourth,
no
later
than
December
19.
This
contest
is
made
possible
by
various
local
.
merchants
in
co-operation
with
the
Jaycees.
entists
gathered
to
hear
pioneer
"P".
The
food
market
sec-;J'th
its
storage
room
Is
'
square
foet.
Well-lighted
fluorescent
fixtures,
the
oflers
complete
grocery
meat
lines
with
additional
airplane
builder
Glenn
L.
Mar
tin
deliver
the
.annual
"Wright
350
miles
an
hour.
Also
called
Tradewlnd
transport,
lt
weighs
80
tons
and
is
powered
by
four
Allison
gas-turbine
engines
which
develop
more
than
5,500
horscpa?r
each
In
turning
contra-rotating
propellers.
'
It
has
a
wing
span
of
approximately
145
feet.
winning
12,000-mile
dash
to
New
Zealand.
A
report
from
Capetown
told
of
a
British
Canberra
Jet
bomber
making
a
record
flight
from
London
today.
Its
time
was
12
hours
25
minutes.
The
previous
record
was
21
hours,
31'
minutes.
The
6,000-mile
flight
was
lecture."
Tonight
President
Eisenhower
will
join
1.200
men
and
women
in
honoring
the
.store
on
Eighth
Avenue
In
1945.
The
small
store
goes
into
disuse
today.
Married,
with
three
children,
Mr.
Postulo
is
receiving
many
congratulatory
messages
from
'
"
d'her
city
businessmen".
shelves
in
keeping
with
"DEAN
OF
RODE.V
DIES
CALGARYtCP)
Guy
Weadlck,
veteran
cowpoke
who
irlginated
the
Calgary
Stampede
died
In
Los
Angeles.
He
was
65.
"'c-yourself
system.
There
Wright
memory
at
a
banquet
I
r.l
IWPrH
I
Inn
units
for
The
nptlone!
committee
for
"1
Tr,!.
fresh
fr.iit.,
veget-