Ik h m 4- PROVINCIAL j PRSVISCIAI tlB3A3T, jorrfRY I X18 ORME5 !1 r IS ' DRUGS 1, 't i ;; DAILY DELIVERY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER STAR V tAM Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 ...tin DISPATCHED VOL. XLI, No. 147 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C.. MONDAY.'-JUNE 23, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS pl U1 HL1 rere ami uuuuLauuc tzs r 31 fishermen Move Out to Jockeye Grounds Today Union Heads Reject dQCK-iO-vvOii lcui By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER. British Columbia's 32,000 striking woodworkers decided Saturday night to stay on strike, but 6000 fishermen who had threatened to quit Sunday instead decided to postpone their walkout at least until July 19. ' 5 'Idc sockeye salmon fishing season, which nets ! than $10 million a year to B.C. gillnet fisher- Ufts under way on the Naas and Skeena rivers Biggest Korean Air Raid storekeepers and meat companies. Failure to fish would have The snap-crat kle-pot chain ol W 4 j)'. .',.4t of a strike by the more 1!KK) scM l'.pye salmon flsh- his iifpn postponed until !i The .strike had been ijlicl to take effect at 6 Sunday opening date of mi on the two northern .rniy cmht per cent of the .mid membership of the i Fishermen and Allied Municipal Officers Meet For Conference meant much hardship to native fishermen. GROCERS WELCOME RESULT Orocers welcomed the decision. Many fishermen run huge charge accounts in the offseason and if fishing had not started fishermen would have SEOUL (CP) Five hundred U.S. Navy, Air events in B.C.'s economy-crippling labor tangle went off in this order during the week-end: Provincial Labor Relations Board asked lumber workers to go back to work. Negotiations would then be resumed with operators. If no agreement was reached, a government-supervised strike vote would be held July 16. Forest Industrial Relations 7T' Force and Marine planes today knocked out five VICTORIA (CP) Doubt as to been unable to meet their bills. whether wages of municipal of fleers is "commensurate with type and variety" of their duties, big hydro electric plants servicing all of Nortl Korea and part of Man churia in the biggest sin Ltd., the bargaining unit for 102 coast operators, accepted the was expressed by B. C. Braceweu proposal. Operators had maintained since the strike began a Activity on the waterfront here and at Port Edward was humming; all day Sunday as fishermen loaded supplies, checked engines and gear. Many wives of the fishermen watched as their men got their glllnetters in readiness. Most of the fishermen, espe- Prs Union and the Native norhootl voted in favor of inly l!) deadline at a series icfUiiiis Friday and Satur-ilunR the coast. i the meeting in Civic t'en-Saturday afternoon, more ,n 100 sockeye salmon fish-ntn unanimously endorsed decision to fish at the rrd price of 25 cents a gle air raid of the Korean Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs. He was addressing the opening session of the 13th annual conference of Municipal Officers' As. soeiation of B.C. in Empress Hotel. City and municipal clerks, war. All targets were on the Ko rean side of Yalu River which di- rinllv thnsp frnm the south, are - -Sr i hooHina f,.r i ho niao ar,.Jv!cles Korea and Manchuria nd w hilt- their unions ne- week ago they could not bargain while workers were carrying on an "illegal, strike." The policy committee of the International Woodworkers of America rejected the Labor Relations Board's back-to-work formula. Union member? will vote on the policy com-mitte's action today. FISHERMEN ACCEPT treasurers, comptrolers and as US Navy headquarters in Tokyo jtt fr prices of other sessors came from al parts of the said. it. w .ijr . t i ' " i 1 -I, :"'f k i ; t j .-nates al.so endorsed a mo- A Navy spokesman said the targets were "top priority." Any preliminary reports indicated province to consider problems and municipal affairs. Last year's record high of 95 registrants is expected to be repeated at the two day parley. . ;o delay the start of fishing "primary and secondary targets where the run Is reported heaviest, but those with smaller boats will' stay on the Skeena. Main camps In the Naas area are at Port Simpson, Wales Island, Arrandale and Double Island. Canneries are in operation on the Skeena at Port Edward, Inverness, North Pacific and Sunnyside with main camps sit it two areas by 24 hours to ill fishermen an equal op- thoroughly smashed. "The department of municipal , Vjf A ; - -: The Air Force said the 90 ,Mty to Ret their gear in minute raid demolished Sulho and get to the grounds. Two hours after IWA decision. United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union said salmon fishermen had voted in favor of postponing their strike dead hydro electric plant, which sup' affairs and municipal officials need each other," Mr. Bracewell said. "Closest co-operation makea for best results for both." Fraxr River fisherman sug- Dlies power to Mukden and 4 the move and it was re-4 with great applause by other industrial areas 4n Man uated at Port Essington, Car- churia, plus four other power .'Continued on Page 51 ; . t plants in North Korea. The Air Force said 208 Red TIDES utive. Japanese-Canadian tr.ite fishermen and unan- jf endorsed. . V vote on the July ' 19 :.n only i) fishermen dla- -fl Parkin, UFAWU secre-hfre, win. announced re- Ml(i-1.5 jrts were counted on the Communist airfield at Antune. Manchuria, within sieht of strikes on Suibo. Tuesday. June 24. 1951 iPacific Daylight Timet High 2:10 20.3 feet 15:13 18 2 feet None of them challenged the fighter-bombers, escorted by line. -The Fi.'-heries Association of B.C. said it was gratified ihat fishermen ajreed to its price offer for sockeye but that its offer on other species is "the absolute maximum under present conditions." Meanwhile, 4000 carpenters ' and painters, on strike or locked out, said they were willing to accept Mayor Fred Hume's offer to mediate their dispute. There was no immediate comment from the contractors. The dispute has tied up scores ol major-building projects hi seven coast cities. Hon. A. D. Turnbull, ministsr of municipal affairs and health and welfare said - progress- of municipal government was in ratio to the progress made ity officers. "Facilities in B.C. and Canada for formal education in municipal affairs is argeiy lacking," he said. "Those in the field ca.i learn only by experience, personal study or from others in the field." Election of officers was slated to be held. Cecil Wyatt spoke ou the city -manager system. J. W. Wilson, executive -director of the Lower Mainland Reg i Sunday, said 90 per cent ym 8:47 25 fect PATTERN OF INDUSTRY as" traced by Uiese lo?s liaomea at Ai.iiord tay ;n'me Queen Charlotte Islands, has been broken. The lumber strike is now in its eighth day, with still no sign of a let-up, with 32,000 workers, idle. Throughout the . lumber industry, the above picture is repeated a hundred times when In full swing along the rugged coast of Britisn Columbia. F-86 Sabre jets and Navy Pan he (ishermeVi here favored 20:50 8.0 Iv?et ther Jets. Reds Protest committee's recommenda-1 ' to set the strike deadline id so fishermen would not -r heavy losses. t of the native fishermen if Skeena and Naas depend 'fly on sockeye salmon fish-!or their llvellh(XKl. City Calls Out Diver to Examine Water Pipe Leak Roadside Blast Knocks Out Telegraphs Release of ional Planning Board will speak i estimated 100 fishermen Friday morning and F. L. fanaw Report of a leak in the water- of the Power Commission in the War Prisoners !! '.") i Sunnyside and Inverness ui"d the meeting here. They 1 curlier at their home afternoon. The B. C. government will give a banquet Friday night to close the conference. Red Prisoners Screened by MUNSAN (CP) United Nations Reds Kidnap 43 German A total telegraph and CBC line failure was caused this morning when a mountain slide knocked out lines after blasting by road crews between Rosewood and Houston.- truce negotiators told Commu nists today 27,000 Korean civil pipeline off Shawatians win oe Investigated tomorrow by a diver from Armour Salvage & Towing Company. A t ug, under command of Cap-lain Reg. Green will tow a diving scow and equipment to the scene. The diver, Ray Montgomery and officials from the city water ''t Stevens, sccretary-w of the UFAWU in uver, and Ed Nahaney, "Kent of the Native ! ; ?? ians will be free from US prison camps starting next Monday. RailWorkers Historic Flyer Dies In Utah "rliond, telegraphed the 1 uf the coastwise voting to an. HELMSTEDT, Germany (CP) British soldiers back up West The Reds protested violently. North Korean Gen. Nam II accused the allies of disposing of war prisoners "unilaterally." He said the Communists never had recognized the UN reclassification of war prisoners. works department will make the trip. The leak was reported to the waterworks department by H'Mf achi.sing him of the German police at the disputed The slide erupted at 9:55, said Canadian National Telegraphs. Lines were restored at 2:15 p.m. The break caused a traffic jam at either end of the Edmonton relay point and delayed Canadian Press news service to The Dally News. Buckerfields UN Command KOJE ISLAND (CP) The United Nations Command today screened 4000 North Korean civilian "internees whether they wish to return to their Communist homeland in the event of an armistice. Plans are to screen about 4000 dally until ,450,000 have bes questioned. More than 45,000 have been I fe Ml I i f . It 15 " X ? ' ? ' ; 1 frontier point near here in defiance of Communist keep-away patrolman Mike Corney after it CALGARY (CP) The story of Capt. Wilfred Reid (Wop) May, who died Saturday of a heart attack at Provo, Utah, is parallel to the history of aviation In Canada. ' orders following the kidnapping showed on his graph. by Red poiice of 43 West Ger man workmen. The workmen were seized yes date decision, they said m( hy (he fishermen also ',pl 83 per cent favor lk' aefion unless the .oper- ien for last year's mln-"n prices and condition HKfd him to "make all 'viry preparations for a ,ltlM strike at midnight, 19," 'sult of the voting was re- May, who learned to fly in the Royal Flying Corps, fought Halibut Landings American boats received the best prices for halibut on the exchange here today as they landed 170.000 pounds from terday by Russian led East German polite as westerners dis Although the leak has not affected water in the city, officials said today it could if not repaired quickly. First reports say the break is In one of the 14-inch intakes from Shawatians to Prince Ru-nert. A valve will be shut, cut in the First World War, was on1 of the first winners of the Mc Purchased by Winnipeg Firm mantled a railroad spur. They were released early today with Kee Trophy, was one of the first counted by the UN Command among the 70,000 prisoners It says want to be repatriated. About 100,000 captured Reds. out explanation. Area 3. The three U.S. boats each received 24 cents for mediums, 20 for heavies and 18 for chicken. n " great Interest by ting off the flow while the diver, said they would resist investigates. bush fliers, completed many sensational mercy flights and organized one of the West's first commercial air companies. He ' was manager of the repair depot In Calgary that Canadian Pacific Airlines is operating for the RCAF. VANCOUVER (CP) Federal Grain Ltd. and Pioneer Grain Company Ltd. of Winnipeg have purchased the controling interest in the $3,000,000 Buckerfields Ltd., It was announced last, week. Results of the latest screen While officials are not sure of the trouble. It Is believed a gas Boats were: Western with 52,000 Rounds: Eldorado. 58,000, and F Dead in The kidnapping occurred in a pocket of land 500 yards deep which was part of the Soviet sone state Saxon Antaul that was given to West Germany when the frontier was permanently established. Following the incident, armed ing will be announced after a Red truce negotiator has been ket at one of the connecting nipes may be broken. given the figures. fnpbcll River Claudia H, with 60,000. Here are other sales: Canadian Chief Skugaid, 75,000, 23.5, Edward E. Buckerfield, who It is the first leak reported in the line since 1947. founded a grains and fertilizer business here in 1919, will remain me Crash Water supply for Prince Rupert 20.5, 16, Atlin; Betty L, 45,000, 23. 20. 16. B.C. Packers; Good Wealthy Dog VANCOUVER ((P A dog here MPBEIA RIVER, B.C. (CP) president. Buckerfields, largest producer in the British Empire of dehydrated cereal and legume West German frontier police and British troops went into the territory despite a Red warning not to benetrate into the pocket. The Communists made no effort to halt the western patrols. 1 starts from Woodworth Lake, where It enters a 45-inch pipe, later churns through an 18-lnch pipe and Is diverted through the Partner, 70,000, 22.8, 20, 16, B.C Packers. that will chew anything found a ":" plane coming In for i '"8 at the airfield here Sat (CP Photo) REPRESENTS CANADA Ruth Carrier, 21-year-old Toronto model, will represent. Canada this month at a contest to choose the most beautiful girl In the world. Miss Toronto of 1951, the 117-pound brunette will compete in the Miss Universe beauty contest June 23-30 at Long Beach, Calif. Sponsored by the city of Long Beach, a movie company and two other firms, the contest will bring together beauties from 49 countries. The winner, runner-up and some of the other finalists will receive motion picture contracts. large envolope and started chew Man Killed in Bridge Plunge VANCOUVER (CP) Hugo Freeman, 60, Houston. B.C., plunged 200 rfeet to his death Sunday from the Lions' Gate Bridge spanning the entrance to Vancouver harbor. Sold to the Co-op: Veuna V, grasses, employs between 400 and 500 workers. ' Ught clipped a parked car cartwheeled n prnw t.hff field. two smaller pipes at Shawatians 40,000; Parma, 60,000. ing, scattering $180 in bills. Police were called and the money Lusk, 25, died Sunday was returned to Dr. M. L. Edgar At Trail Convention who lost the envelope on the '""loiai from his injuries. Going, pilot, an Ella Steele, street a few days previously. a cupant of the four-seater were seriously injured F.ue, owned by British Col J,a Airlines, was demolished. Jaycees Urge Completion of PGE Link Urging the completion of the George, Trail, Bumaby, Vancou- than to become a member of ing for next year's convention Pacific Great Eastern railway ver and North Vancouver delega- the Junior Chamber of Com- to be held in their city, from Vancouver to Squainish tions and got it passed." merce. THEY WON rnnnsed victoria hnH earlier maintain- "Not only do the Jaycee clubs 7 " T,. ..... - " f. .A , -nn,mh foe, won. rarrv n mot deal nf influence Huge crests With an appro- lution passed at the Trail Junior known about the PGE extension on a provincial and national Pnte moui were worn Dy tne ,c onJl J:J L!oi North Vancouver members and . . a n,( u . q -.snHtiepi fn,,t. scale t.hov lmrmrt. o training t.o Like Jonah in Whale, Wrens No Worse For Being Swallowed ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) Everybody at the Alvin B. Viers home had been keeping close watch over a wren family on the window sill From nest to eees to four baby birds, the five VierS children had been fascinated by each new development. Checking the other morning, they noticed only two little wrens in the nest and beside them a 15-inch black snake. They called to dad, who came running, sized up the situation at- a glance, and slashed ope the snake, Amid cheers of delight, the two missing wrens stepped out alive. at conclusion of the convention rr... w kii vmino vnuns mn mpn whieVi whirh ibtf t.hev T..-!! rz:ll ;;nii ';,,! hii inMin onvnh'i" presented all delegates with conveiiuuu mat uu. Head of the Prince Rupert Mr. Moore was very enthu-deleeation and local aycee pre- siastic about the convention No Magnetism, Just Stinginess, Violence Stops Wrist Watches LONDON (API The British Medical Journal today scoffed tllp idea that personal magnetism or electricity may be stxin.sibie for stopping watches worn by certain people. I' suggested the idea originates with: E)"'ltable persons who are more violent than they know. GUibie persons who are poor observers. Ungy persons who buy cheap watches. Mr. Moore said the convention PaPer hats- bearing similar mo-was run "as efficiently as clock- tifs- work." President of the North Van which he said "has converted me many times over to the benefits of belonging to the Highlight of the convention couver group and also elected "f .. i v, 4 ' sldent, Neelv Moore, said on his return yesterday: rf'The Victoria delegation wanted to quash the resolution and almost succeeded tn doing so. But we lobbied with Prince was the publicity and propa- regional president at the con Jaycees." "I can give no better advice ganda stunts carried out by vention is Montq Aldous, born to any young man of our city North Vancouver delegates call- in Prince Rupert, wT1