PROVINCIAL PKOVlrJCIAL LID.y, SORROW'S vic.:.-;:a, 3. c. KAY i ROYAL CANADIAN 'SEA CADETS PARADE TONIGHT NAVY DRILL HALL Recruits must be 14 years eld. "Building Citizenship" TIDES ' jSundui(I Tune) May 28. 1M 10 05 173 feet '" 22 15 20 7 feet 3 59 50 feet 15:58 6.5 feet r c "... ' NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published or Canada's Most Strotcgic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 123 ' PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. THURSDAY. MAY 27, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS in n ruSMD S j - fa w r - ft 'vw-A Canada And Spain Sign Pact Little Trouble Seen In Netting Mew Total The International Pacific Halibut Commission announced Wednesday that Areas 1-B and 2, extend-'ng from Hecate Head on the Oregon coast to Cape Sper.cer in southeastern Alaska will be closed to commercial halibut fishing at 11:55) p.m. June 5. , Under control powers conferr-:- ed by the United States and ; OOO had been caught after 11 Canadian governments, the com-! davs. mission, which Includes Capt. ; Prices at the Exchange show Harold Holland of Prince Rupert. ! a slight increase this year over OTTAWA (CP) Canj ;whi un1 .niitn Viuv pntr.1 Am ?e's lining dates and quotas lor last. Average price for the U-dlfferent north Pacific areas. Iday period is 13.8 cents for med- ir SRt'. lWARKr:i) by this huge pan m ide to order in Genoa, Italy, for a mammoth fish id by local fi.shermt n at Camogll, Italy. The pun Is 13 feet in diameter and has a 19-foot A total of three tons of fish cooked in 325 gallons of boiling oil Is expected to be the . ol this pan for the day's party. The allotted 26.500,000-pound ; iutns this year as compared to "atch In Area 2. which runs from i 13.3 cents in 1952. ed into their first trade : agreement. It calls for ! more exports of Canadian dry salted codfish and reduced tariffs on Spanish j olive oil, almonds and : paprika. i Announcement of the bilater- al trade pact, signed Wednesday in Madrid, highlighted the Landings at the Halibut Exchange in Prince Rupert this morning totalled 156,000 pounr1.;; and Co-op landings were 113,-000 pounds. High price for med Wlllapa Harbor on the Washington coast to Cape Spencer, will be taken by midnight June 5 e commission spokesman said. Th? area opened May 18 and last scuers Inch Way Up McKinley iums was 14.9 cents paid by both Effort To Save Hurt Climber January the commission increas- : f . . I t ' Li::i.. J ed the area's quota for 1954 by Bacon and Royal Fisheries. Individual boat landings, all .'KS. Alaska itf Fdur d 'heir way ip Mount half-day Wednesday sitting In the Commons. The Commons also: 1. Passed the decennial revision of the Canada Bank Act. (treacherous southern ii in a desperate at- spot where Argus was left. 1 their grip. He tumbled over the Left to tell the story of the , precipice and all of us roped to-great fall were Morton Wood and rr.'nrr went, with him. Leslie Viereck. who were found ! -i remember falling and Tallin McKinley Park Tuesday Just mR. Thayer died because he is a search was about to be start-! stru,..ic a ledge sticking out of the 1,000.000 pounds. This means that 1.000.000 pounds more fish will be caugh. in two days less fishing thir last year. Closing dates for Area 1-B, which always has a comparatively small catch, run con jvpa mountain climb- from Area 2 and all Canadian bevts with the prices In brackets are as follows: R. G. Johnston 22.000 pounds medium 18.000 (14.8); large 3.000 (14.5 1 ; chicken 1.000 (12.3) sold to Atlin Fisheries. Connie Jean 16.000 pounds, mediums 10,500 M4.7i; large 0, 2. Approved the principle of a is left gravely Injured i" death benefits Argus broke the fall by providing up OUT OF STEP with each other, but in time with the band, five-year-olds George Lambert and Ellen Parrett strut smartly down Washington's Constitution Avenue. The pint-size pranccrs were two of the youngest drum majors in the 18th annual parade of the AAA school safety patrol. u i or mem. ( jjf currently with Area 2. Sunday. .-, in the tent Is George ol three survivors of They told of the i10 maximum oi .uw ion conquering j tumbling into deep snow which BIG CATCH iiii mut.io ji wie i-ivii ki ,n.c, including crown corporations, and southern buttress of the 20,300- stopped him and pulled us all to foot McKinley for the first time, a stop." t Ia!l May 17, which An Associated Press report i chicken 5,500 (12.4) sold to Booth Ho .giri ihn fivo.rinu fnorl .im.i armCO. lOrCBS. from Seattle says that the 600 ! Fisheries. ' boats fishing in Area 2 havt ! Bates Pass 30,000 pounds, mcd -been reported landing almost ium 24.000 (14.9): large 3.000 and the start back which was tragically interrupted at the 13.000-foot level. "It was just a silly little accident." Wood said. "One of Thayer's feet Rllpped. probably be fourth member of y Elton Thayer, well-uia climber. party is led by Dr. ail. 31 -year-old Uni-: Alaska glaclerologlst. : art three mountain Carrier Blast Inquiry Opens As Death Toll Mounts to 90 ply left ArRcis in an Improvised ' Under the tradc Pact' an-tent shelter would not last be-! nouneed by External Affairs yond yesterday I Minister Pearson, Canada and woxl and Viereck were des- i Spain agreed to most-favored-cribed as -terribly bruised, cut i nation tariff rates. They also agreed not to impose discrimin- cause his clamped-on spikes lost 'and exhausted atory Import and exchange 2.000,000 pounds a day this week U14.6); chicken 3,000 112.5) sold with 8.000,000 pounds landed by to Bacon Fisheries, yesterday for the week. j Twinkle 38 000 pounds, med- A comparison of landings atiiums 25.000 (14.9); large 6.000 the Prince . Rupert Halibut. Ex-j 14.5); chicken 5.00(i(12) sold td, ' ehii.-'ge for the ftrU II d- of pluM-' Fisheries. J , fishing isaued in a Co-op bulle- j Ocean Pride 52.01(0 pounds, tin show a decrease compared ! mediums 42,000 (14.8): large 'ot the United States QUONSET POINT, R I. t , - Navy Secretary Charles S curbs, except lor balance of pay. j ment reasons. . Alaska. Wicty-one United States -Jlatyl Thomas, who flew-K Wuonset men. are known dead and 201 ! fr, a "uick JnspecUon of the i stricken warship, and Capt. Wil- "r,c ".".. i"" j u iiara r. Raborn, the Bennington's to last year. cany, loiiowmg wcanesaay s ae- j skipper for only a month, said married to the 5.000-oy a U.S. Air Force early Wednesday, r.ds and blowing snow mpts to add more if party, so the four rd the two-mile high CAMERAMAN 'MAN-HANDLED' BY VANCOUVER POLICE VANCOUVER ff Chuck Jones, veteran Vancouver Province photographer, was ejected Wednesday from police headquarters as he stood in a hallway prepared to take a picture of 18-year-old Mary Mcllish, charged with the knife-slaying of Sam Messcr. Jones was grabbed by the arm and pulled down a flight of stairs by burly police sergeant Jack Thompson. vastaUng explosion and fire there was no indication of sabo-a board the illfated aircraft car- taSe- rir RenninfTtrm 7s miles off the ' Raborn said the cause of the By May 27 last year a total of 2,699,000 pounds had been landed as compared to 2,034.500 pounds up to yesterday. These figures show-a decided drop In 6,000 (14 4); chicken 4,000 (12) sold to B.C. Packers. Co-op landings today Included the Primrose with 7,000 pounds, Tor, 32,000, Neptune, 9,000. Nor Cape, 14.000 Cape Spencer, 2i,6u'0 and the MRB with 30,000 pound:;. Board Seeks City's Plans For Park Fill 4 -i A - t 5 -r New England coast. A violent blast on the second comparison to 1952 when 3,073,- explosion Is "a mystery to me." The "best information" was that the blast occurred "possibly at the five-inch fuse magazine." He emphasized that this infor ers Stage The Prince Rupert Parks Board or third deck below the flight deck of the 32,000-ton carrier, was followed by searing flames forks Spree mation has not been confirmed. Fence For Roosevelt Park Behind Schedule Board Finds n,H?t Girl Remanded Without Plea last night-instructed chairman Pat Forman to find out the city's intention with regard to the Al-goma Park sanitary fill. The question was brought up by the ' board chairman who stated that he understood that the city had covered nine-tenths CBC, Employees Ask Conciliation In Negotiations On Charge of Killing Lover told police she had been 1 of an acre at the park already She which roared through many forward compartments. Then came at; least one more explosion. Scores were trapped in their sleeping quarters. Many suffocated. Many . perished In flames. The disaster, one of the worst during peacetime in U.S. naval history, was the second aboard a carrier In New England waters in less than a year. Last October, 37 died in an explosion and fire on the carrier Leyte while she-was docked In Boston. A four-man court of Inquiry, living wllh Messcr and following-, this year. OTTAWA it A wage dispute between the CBC and its 1,100 Mr. Forman said the original Progress on the building of a fence along two sides of the outfield of the diamond at Roosevelt Park is behind schedule, three members of the Parks Board found out last .night. Following the regular Parks Board meeting, chairman Pat Forman, and Commissioners Art Murray and Bob Eby visited a quarrel had prepared to leave office and program employees agreement called for some 5,400 square yards at the park to be tion. The Parks Board has allotted S'iOO for digging post holes and installation of the posts, while the actual fence, of plywood construction, will be put up by t he baseball group. The three board members also commented on the size of the holes dug for the posts. Each hole measured . roughly four foot square and three to four feet depp. Commissioner Murray pointed ' the United Coun-Ji Cornwall. Ont.. at Mt E. R Balrnmbo '"i Tuesday will Ik-Mhp attention or the wrnment by the Jus-Imctit. I Winch. CCF-Van-'JJt. In the Commons J protested the dis-ad asked Justice Mln-'i hether action wns " prrvent such inci-'l' liHure. Mr. Winch to 1,000 persons VANCOUVER (CP) A slim, 13-ycar-old ash blonde was rc-ir.anded one week when she appeared in police court yesterday charged with slaying her boy friend. Mary Victoria Melllsh. blue-eyed mail clerk, was arrested and has been submitted for federal the Burrard Street rooming-house room into which the pair moved last Saturday. filled to a depth of four feet for a cost, of more than $8,700 this year. The money is furnished j through the Algoma Park trust I i Pioneer Barber Roosevelt Park to look over the progress being made with digging of post holes for the fence. charged with murder following! the fatal stahbintt of Sam Me- ! fund. . j Discussing the question of the ; headed by Rear-Adiniral John r: lj T i . labor department conciliation. Decision to seek conciliation was announced Wednesday in a joint statement by the CBC and Elondon Wilcox, national chairman of the Association of Radio and Televislou Employee of Canada, an Independent union representing the workers involved. The parties declined to dis 2t-year-old unemployed MIO IICIC IVVJVIJ M. Hoskins, commandant of the her, AI'Mitn'i Park fund, commissioner out that plans for the fence called for . five-foot posts with only one foot below ground. The board members also ex Commissioner Murray reported that he understood that the holes should all have been finished today. So far four holes have MiUuV the Jail yard plasterer. Mnl the covering over The ISO-pound I Well known barber, Mux built I Usutl. who has lived continuously iiHct naval air station, was 'requested I Art Murray also the chairman of the board ask the "a",p" u bm M investigation city if the Parks Board Is re-1 tv- " ( sponsible for the sending of the home teen-agers Tarkcr been dug. Plasterer died in hospital late ,n (hjs dlst,.i(.t for 44 vrsirSi (Iipd Tuesday night from a stab "t " 30 today in Prince wound in his left leg that .sever- p.m. pressed disappointment at the anpesirance of the park following The proposed fence Is being Algoma fund or if the city is. j fQfS Oil I IITI6 close what wages the employees erected as a joint proposition ; tlie Kinsmen May 24 sports day. Despite Slides have demanded or what the CBC I between the Parks Board and t he I At Casey Park, which the three has offered. ' I Prince Rupert Baseball Assocla- ' Parks Board members also vlsit- hanged for the last Oct. 15 of 20-ie Ann Carrier of 1 Hue. WEATHER I ed an artery. In the room where j unpen uencrai tiospiuu a he was discovered lying In a pool I month's illness. I of blood, pollen found a butcher Born In Italy in 1H!'4. Mr. Vag-l knife wllh an eight-Inch blade liaiil came to Prince Rupert in i which they believe was the mur- i 1H10. ; oer weapon. i He is survived by his wife, ftnouiun i. wc maite a icst utt.se on the spending of this fund for sanitary land fill?" Commissioner Murray asked. "I for one would like to find out If it is legal." he said. ed. Commissioner Bob Eby out Small mud slides are occurring dally along the Canadian Na tional Railways line, CN officials The board will write the city reported today cleric rmiestw thnt he draw up I The slides, which take about a contract between the Parks an hour to an hour and a half Miss Melllsh, whose eyes np-Rerbal. at 855 Ninth Avenue peared red after a sleepless nteht, ', West, his step-daughter, Marie, t In Jail, was remanded wil hoiit ! a brother Victor and sister Jose-i pica until June 2. The slight. phlne In Philadelphia, Pa., an-103-pnund girl wore no mkcm!4ollK'r brother. Philip, In Vancou- Poard and the Prince Rupert , to clear, are not expected to de t region Variable ' Way and Friday 'Wiwer.s In the south, tomorrow morning. f hl temperature. M l'Klay and northerly .. Low tonight and 'IPort Hardy. Band- ln'-'' Rii)ert, 42 and 55. Baseball Association covering the erecting and dismantling of the c lor her court appearance and ; ver and a brother rank li nary lined a tentative plan for a 25 by 50-foot wading pool at the west corner of the park to the ither members. The nool had been suggested as an alternative lo erecting a backstop at Casey Park. Commissioner Eby said. Earlier, at the Parks Board meeting, commissioner Art Murray showed board members a sketch hp had drawn up of two signs which the board plans to erect, at Algoma and McClymont Pnrks. The signs will draw attention to the development underway at both parks. lay trains, however. The, westbound train, out of Jasper last night, Is expected In to Prince Rupert on time. niurd'r ; Funeral .arrangements will be outfield fence proposed for ftood silent as the charge was read. i announced later. Roosevelt Park. '4 71 ITS WORLD MOURNS LOSS Athlete of Half Century Lauded by Friends, Fans mm big time star for 11 years with I J1)' Big Train" Con-and spoils fans "Sl'eed With Art ! ho said: "We lost Councilor, 52, excelled in foot- George Drew, national Pro-ball and hockey but he made a gross) ve Conservative leader, cal-ivime In manv other sports and led him a "great sportsman who was voted Canadian football . always played a clean game." player and athlete of the half- Conacher also believed in play-century In a 1950 Canadian Press ing a lmrd game, whether he was Inquest Slated For Monday Th inquest into the death of Lloyd Joseph Pedersen. was postponed yesterday afternoon until 2:30 Monday afternoon at (he City Hall. At. yesterday's preliminaries, held in B.C. Undertakers, deputy-coroner Georee Dawes swore in the jury which viewed the body of the you'h who died Tuesday morning following a car accident early Sat -'died of a heart at- poll. He retired from profession Chicago Black Hawks, New York Americans and the Maroons. He continued his interest In sports after his retirement as : chairman of the Ontario ath-! letlc commission and as director of recreation with the RCAF , during the Second World War. Conacher. first elected to the ' Commons In 1949 and returned last year, leaves a widow, Dorothy, and five children, Con plunging with his high-knee stride for Toronto Argonauts hi Otta. last night. He al sport 17 years ago. 'M lived much of his Prime Minister St. Laurent b a game a f,-in...u.. , u II1V1IU1J Craig of the 1913 Hamilton Tigers scored as many points in a single Grey Cup final. Conaeher's endurance was phenomenal. He was known to play lacrosse' and baseball games or football and hockey games on the same day and star In them all. Conacher learned his baseball In his home town of Toronto and by 19'.!6 he was with Toronto Maple Leafs, winners of the little world series. He was also a wrestler, a bPtter-thnn-average sculler and swimmer and a former Canadian light-heavy weight champion boxer. He didn't learn to skate until he was 16, but by 1928 he was a Park ' u,e green '"lament mil. 10 111" noted nthioto """eritarinn vi.iiic 1111- from en prominent the t!)!0's or making Montreal fans howl with his daz.llng rink-leneth rushes for the Maroons of the SO'.i. lie set a scoring mark in his first year of senior football in 1!)?1 which has been equalled only twice. He racked up 15 points on two touchdowns, a field goal and two singles as Argos defeated Edmonton Eskimos 23-0 in the east-west final. Only Buster Red Storey of the 1938 Argos and the late Ross said: "The news of his passing will be met with the deepest sorrow by his colleagues in Parliament, by those whom he represented In Ottawa and by all sports-loving Canadians. "No matter what task he undertook, whether in sports or in services to his community, it was typical of Lionel Conacher that he devoted his total energy to It." I Politics across the 'y were or 1 .... stance, Diane, Lionel, David and Brian. His death leaves the standings in the Commons: Liberals 172; Progressive Conservatives 50; CCF 23; Social Credit 15; Independent three; vacant two; total 265. v -tWnl, , -"IIIMICU UP urday. Identification of the body was made by George Kenneth Laird. The jury with William F. Stone as foreman consists of Fnc. Janes," William Bremner, Clifford Borge, Brian Forbes, and ords of ChaDtnan ROHKKT T. WAT MS, 15 ,of Comox, B.C., receives the-George Medal, second highest civilian decoration In the Commonwealth, from Governor-General Vincent Massey at a special investiture at Vancouver. Waters won the award for his heroic rescue of an injured RCAF pilot from a flaming Lancaster bomber that crashed near his home Nov. 24, 1952. (CP Photo) H.insi Conacher Chicago and " he National Hockey """"l quite gUy ;Bennie Sprinkler. pro hockey player and stayed a (See earlier story, Pace 6)