PROVINCIAL. i FRDVISCIAL LI3" )RROW'S 0. SUV 31. IDES he October 28, 1953 standard Time) 5 49 17.2 ieet Daih 17:24 18.2 feet 11 25 103 feet feet i NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" 8-x Phone i nvfi V k:' , '( ; jif-s 1 i r '.! - i ;S..'. 'v f , h4 Ma Cb VwiHh Fae Trial . L1'' ? i'US - M.. Vessel Free Of Rocks p -1 Young Girl Victim; Police Officer Felled A Bella Coola native youth will appear in County Court this week charged with indecent assault of a juvenile girl and escaping custody. NX Raymond Schooner, 21 of (J Bella Coola will appear before Judge W- O- Fulton to elect I i .. T F f 4 " I I xj -'tA'- ft f h Doctor Freed Formally On Libel Bid ' I.. . - -if : ASINT. NUMBr.R of young Indo-Chln st are being mobilized to co-ODerate with the Idnving the Communists out of French Indo-Chlna. Here a young commando natrnls These young men can slither through swampland and Junele underbrush mm. At Kemano Freighter Struck Reef in Sound VANCOUVER. A small coastal freighter, the Tico, late yesterday crunched aground at the entrance to Kemano Sound but managed to free herself on the high tide. The vessel struck a reef between Glide and Dupont Islands, some 400 miles north of hera, en route to Namu, B.C., from the Queen Charlotte Islands. The freighter was pounded hiliar with the terrain, and well-adjusted to the adverse conditioai of the territory. ber Resolution Calls For Rail trial. He is presently under escort to Prince Rupert. "The charges arose from a complaint received by the Bella Coola RCMP detachment the night of October 20, that a 15-year-old native girl had been assaulted. An RCMP constable- went to Schooner's home- to make the arrest. When he had placed a handcuff on the suspect's wrist in the presence of the youth's parents, the constable was knocked unconscious by a piece of two-by-four, and young Schooner made his escape. The accused evaded the police until 9:30 a.m. October 23, when he was arrested and placed in the Bella Coola Jail. The handcuff had been sawn off his From South With Peace River tR (CPi Twelve annual convention here. 1 cure the trans-i The 12 were among 40 to be adaches of north- hammered out by the delegates mcrce calling for more rail links between the southern! and northern parts of the province was enlarged. The resolution said lack of ' . VANCOUVER Dr. William Norman Kemp went into the prisoner's dock la assize court tody, but only for the purpose of being formally discharged from custody on a charge of defamatory libeL Mr. Kemp has been awaiting trial on a charge which was laid last May by John Joseph Perdue, then head of the B.C. Social Credit League and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the provincial legislature. The doctor applied through hla counsel, Paul D. Murphy, for his costs in the proceedings, but this was refused as no formal indictment had been issued by the attorney-general. UN Holds STOWAWAY BRIDE BACK Christine Castle (right), 19-year-old Scottish br'de of six months who stowed away on a Canadian-bound ship to be near h'er sailor husband, stands dejected in a London station after being returned without her husband by immigration officials at Montreal. A probation officer waits with her for the Edinburgh train. Published by a London news-paper, this photograph was chosen by the weekly trade publication, World's Press News, as the best British picture of the week. badly on the rocks but none of trior BC. held the into a definite plan of action bnday as delegati-s for the coming year- rincial Chambers of I Chief resolution of the direc ted their second tors of the Chambers of Com- wrist. At a preliminary hearing before Stipendiary Magistrate H. F. Miles, Schooner was charged with indecent assault.- escaping her seams was opened. . Meanwhile, salvage crews prepared today to make a third attempt to refloat the 60-foot fishpacker impaled on the rocks near Magdalena Point, 40 miles from Victoria. The Newcastle IV piled up on the rocks Sunday. Heavy ground swells have hampered efforts of the powerful tug Salvage Queen to pull her free. communication was a serious barrier to development of central B.C. and the Peace River bloc and wis holding up development of a giant petrochemical industry in the province. DIRECT COMMUNICATION A rail and road network would give short and direct communication between the Alaska custody and unlawfully beinii in Commission. Awaits Letter From Power Company Here a dwelling house by night. At the conclusion of the hearing E COMPLIMENTS I0DE BEST LOOKING JURY" !ey MINES. N S. r Twelve members of the Imperial hhters nf the Einpire occupied the courtroom jurors' r ceremony at which five new Canadians were llizenshlp. ' it's the "best-looking Jury we have "ever county court judge George Morrison. Magistrate Miles committed Schooner for trial. Accused was not represented by counsel- Special Meet Highway and the supply of mil The youth's parents also facet charges of -obstructing a police' The B.C. Power Commission , power supply for Prince Rupert, ha not heard from the North-! They were: extending and 1m- RuVrfMdinKS i brf"BnEr poweT ,rom Kitimat by Kt pert nomings. . transmission via Terrace, and .IV."e,LC'iyC.nclloretd bringing power from Kitimat by On Palestine oincer in tne execution of his duty- Fresh Milk Deliveries Cut by Strike king Members" Ruling UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. tP The United Nations S e c u ri t y m. ...si. o-transmission along the north Weston, chairman of the; Com- shore .. of boUgas .channel,: Lifeboat Crew Council called an extraordinary itary bases on the west coast in time of war. Delegates were warned last night "it Is time the people of Canada and the U.S. became missionaries for their free enterprise system." B.C.'g Attorney-General R. W. Bonner, speaking at the organization's annual dinner, saia: "Free enterprise li still in Us infancy1'-:'.', and there are many ' problems yet to be ironed out. not submitted its offer which double session today to take up ic Says Veterans' Chief had been .requested some.-, time ago.' The 'letter said Commis Dies in the explosive Palestine issue and study possible ways of ending the Israeli-Arab border .killing and ftR -The Domin- ' coin to Victoria to Drotest "the sioner W. W- Foster had been informed .- that . Northern B C Pnuflpr riirpftnt-. '.txiniilH -tnfp.'- (disputes." ' H t i . 3 '- -J -, J .V, , h t - $ , 1 5 . v i) ' Ml ! J. I '. I - 4 9 i ... ' ' t' ' -' ! f M 1 41 li ' v- "Urli j -, ...t- . 1 " i . . e r XJ '- . . I"' . " If ' . v-.,- iv, . . -i - ' ' 1 C r t " 7 -. . . t . - - !'L; ' at I "Tk . ' 1 - t ' ; : t - -. ,'-'4,, " f f . ' . . - -W t - . 1 .,' I j - ; ; U'" NEW YORK Wi New York officials strove desperately today to effect agreement in a strike that has cut the flow-bf fresh milk for 14,000,000 persons in the metro- ARBROATH. Scotland '.i-W of the Army, Navy : Idiotic government enforcement" jN Veterans In Can- ol an old liquor regulations gov Tq make way for theses 'Urgent early tills month and the Com-. nieooat men.' w-aary irorn, an all night battle' with' tHe'gtfleitlossetf ted today that he Is council, deliberations, the "Geri- But through this system we erning Visiting members. "Inspectors are enforcing a mission notified .as to Its de hv nnsnrori the Hirhlji nf hiin- ! POlitan area. sea, were drowned early todav cision. rtrerhrof hoiittinds of Dconle tol citv Prodding kept negotia- within sight of the lights of their erai AssemDjy s political committee put off until Wednesday continued debate on American charges that the Russians direct Mr. Weston said the Commis regulation which Is discouragrm; Ml Q members oT one branch from vixltinp another " snlrt Alfred J. own homes. Only one member of make Independent decisions." tions going early today in the wage-hour dispute between representatives of 200 companies sion again would request -the company to submit its proposal. the crew survived. NEW PRESIDENT ed a Red torture centre to wring The 35-foot lifeboat put out In answer to a letter from the last night in answer to a report President for 1954, succeeding and the International Brother-Vancouver Tourist Bureau sec- hood of Teamsters (AFL) Union w Canada Home Wickcns, of Moose Jaw, Sask., who is visiting British Columbia. Mr. Wickens said he is going to see Attorney-General Robert nrn.-ier and protest the "signing that a vessel was in trouble off Inch Cape Rock. from captured American soldiers "confessions" that they partici-Dated in alleged germ warfare in -Korea. The new charges, made Monday, brought a quick denial from the Russians. The lifeboat failed to find a city asking what progrtits had been made in negotiations with the Northern B.C. Power Co., Mr., Weston said that early in June a Commission survey had been made of three sources of cf 13.000 striking drivers and plant workers. Deliveries to homes and retail outlet were cut off by the strike, which started Sunday afternoon. ,Two ! in" regulation now being enforc- JR. England trace of the vessel it was sent out to help. thence along the Ecstall River. The chief engineer of the B.d Power. Commission -said., the existing Falls River 'plant could be increased to supply 18,00ft -con-f tinuous. horsepower and . would wai-ant-an-Installation 30,000. horsepower at 60 per 'ceht' loa'd factor At Brown Falls, the engineer said, there is probably 12,000 continuous horsepower, and at Khtada Fails, possibly 10,000 continuous horsepower- The Commission engineer said that a large outlay of money and the difficult terrain were major obstacles in dealing with the two Kitimat sources of power supply. In June, Mr. Weston said in his letter, an informal discus--slon between Commissioner Foster and top officials of the Northern B.C. Power took place in Montreal. At that time, acquisition of the company's electrical property was discussed. It was pointed out that the feasibility of setting up an operation in Prince Rupert by the Power Commission, as asked by city council, depended almost entirely upon the price to be paid fo the company's property. Since expropriation was felt to be unsatisfactory to all parties concerned, it was agreed that Friends and relatives gathered fitly-married teen-room is 16 and the i I1" to fly t Vahcou- ! along the harbor wall as the re retary-manager J. V. Hughes, is E. W. Arnott of Victoria, vice-president of the B.C. Electric Company. First vice-president is James T. Harvey, barrister, of Prince Rupert; second vice-president is Harold J. Fosbroiike, general store operator at Vernon "Gavel of the year" awards went to the Bella Coola Boara rf Traja and Troll Phamhll- fit "The whole thing Is idiotic," he said. ."It means one of our members can't visit another branch here In B.C. without being signed as a guest of a member of that particular club." live. I 'g Climaxed a two- ! First Load of Big Crucibles For Kitimat Smelter on Way feethearts romance i turning lifeboat approached the breakwater. They watched in horror as a giant wave caught it. Shouts from the crew reached them as the boat was tossed onto the rocks only 50 yards from the rhore,. Then nothing could be heard but the roar of the sea and the howling of the gale. Hunter Returns VANCOUVER A deep-sea Commerce ' Other upproved resolutions gamble which began with toy called for inauguration of a ; boats and models has graduated short-wave radio and teletype "lto he real thin& alld now thc svs.em bv the DoDartment of , $1 .500,000 steel heart of Kitimat Mounties Get Light Keepers Wife To Land Troops Return To Barracks ' LONDON Cfc London gasoline truckers drove their big tankers to the city's garages and oil depots today for the first time in a week, ending an abortive strike over wage claims and union Jurisdiction. Their return meant back to barracks for more than 6,000 service men brought to. London last week-end to keep gas and oil supplies rolling. Their intervention killed the strike, which had thinned road traffic throughout the metro-pollta-n area. crippling blow to the smelter's production schedule. ' "We are ready to withstand a hurricane if we have to," Mr. Elworthy said. "Our chief worries are Columbia Bar, Cape flattery and bad weather in open sea." The first two loads for the I', dark-halrcd Bill I Pat DuRaan. u fol- five-month holiday r last year with his pigeration engineer, pipped the question f wrote his fath-r, IJpd the newlyweds f start their married f est coast. pen to Canada be-ferstand what life is Jrp" BUI said before the Public Works to facilitate hiah- I is is being oemg towed towea slowly siowiy up up rocky west coast of British Co- report; aug- way conditions PARKSVILLE, B.C. Anniented grants to the Victorian lumbia. The heart Is a number of Order of Nurses, ana estabiiszi RCMP rescue team which jump Island Logger consist of 115 pots, VANCOUVER CP) A former Vancouver wrestler, George E. (Rocky) Rea, six days overdue on a hunting trip in the Cariboo district, returned to his North Burnaby home early today. He said the trip Just took longer than he expected. ed ashore onto rocky Ballenas Island in the dark at 11 p.m. Sunday rushed the 65-year-old each weighing 12'2 tons and ' the company should indicate to measuring 33 feet by 12 feet. I the Commission a price It Fach journey is scheduled to take ' would be willing to accept for five days, the property. monster pots or crucibles, largest ever built, manufactured at Portland, Ore., for the Aluminum Company of Canada's giant smelter at Kitimat. Arthur Elworthy, vice-presi u"ig. "Vancouver is P'are to have as a I wlfe of lighthouse keeper Alec , Elliott to hospital at Nanaimo Modern Entertainment For Bars Mo work with his f has been in Canada iBl" ad Pat will take I honeymoon before early today. Constables I. E. Hall and G. A. Griffin made the 40-minute trip from Northwest Bay to the Ballenas Island lighthouse In the McMillan and Bloedcl boom tug B14. Ketchikan To Get $3,000,000 TV Station X"- anac a ment at UBC of a dental faculty through a granl from the provincial government- A resolution due fur consideration at today's session urges senior governments in the U.S. and Canada be asked to "support the early utilization of Canadian natural gas for the Pacific Northwest." WEATHER Forecast North coast region Cloudy today and Wednesday. Showers or Intermittent light drizzle. Little change in temperature. Winds south 15. Low tonight and high- Wednesday at Pott Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 45 and 58. I nnJ The a,arm had been Slven CQClGrS lers arllPr bv radio, when 76-year- hard hit in the fishing industry, its logging industry flourishes greater than ever with increased dent of the Island Tug and Barge Ltd., planned the huge 800-mile towing job with scale models and then gave the task to the' sea-g6ing tug Island Sovereign. Capt. Arthur J. Warren is In charge of the tug which will tow the steel barge Island Logger loaded with $500,000 worth of equipment. Capt. Warren will make the trip three times. The aluminum firm has advised the towing company that loss o fthe vital pots would be a production of sawmills and t:e ended proposed opening of the Ketchi oia Mr. Elliott s bus was picKea up by the RCAF search and rescue unit in Vancouver. Mr. Elliott was able to ferry them back to the tug one at a time. His wife was reported "resting comfortably" in hospital. , because they will be using it to draw customers. The TV films will be airmailed from San Francisco. , Cost of this installation is estimated at about $3,000,000. A fisherman, semi-resident in Ketchikan for about 35 years, said about TV: "We used to be satisfied watching dog-fights in the street For top entertainment, you could usually bank on a fist fight Saturday night, maybe, even a free-for-all. But I reckon we got to face it, progress." And he shook his head. Meanwhile, the fishermen In bars, of which there are many.) Said one barkeep: "We've always had barflies, but if they were mooching drinks, we could always hustle them out. Now they'll Just sit and watch TV." TV in Ketchikan will not, however, be linked to any network and there'll be no necessity for extravagant aerial arrays on the homes of its subscribers. In fact, there'll be no aerials anywhere for TV users. The sets will be connected to a master cable from the projection room and the programs will be "piped" into the sets. Already, many householders are buying TV sets and subscribing to the service which will cost in the neighborhood of $12.50 a month. Bars and other places of entertainment witti tlieir 36-lnch By LARRY STANWOOO KETCHIKAN This city has a knack of Introducing things "first" in Alaska. First ot all, Ketchikan claims that it is the "first city In Alaska." Ketchikaners first Introduced the salmon derby in the north which annuallly draws over a . thousand participants. One of the first radio stations was operated there for the benefit of fishermen; now there are two radio stations. There are also two daily newspapers. And now its television with a capital TV and the first in Alaska. Anchorage, several hundred miles to the north, will also have TV, but because of a delay in projection equipment, its service will likely run behind Ketchikan's. TV is expected to be a big thinx along Ketchikan's w Rterfrnnt ET0WNi Br,Ush L' The London-ap- nor0 this troubled f" J today announced pinion of five lead- t Peop,e.s pr0Rrcs. Uh Al1 fflClal ld .u their activities VVr Cat 0f public I1 action was taken IS1 Cy?wers panted Q AIf'ed Savage i m" !Uspended the outslxpppmln them with plot-J. I f ""'" '"to kan Pulp Mill next summer. A lot of work also Is being pro-vided by the building of a new waterfront arterial road, costing over $2,000,000 which Is replacing the 30-year-old Water Street ol plank and pilings. When finished, in a year or so. Water Stree' will be a wide, paved thoroughfare supported by concrete pilings and bulwarks, and abou four miles long. And so, business in the waterfront bars at night does no, appear to be lacking. Bartenderr-clalm their high cost liquor k still being consumed with regular avidness although drunken-ess in wide-open Ketchikan is a rarity. City jail holds an average ot one ' sleeper " a mght. Man Acquitted Of Manslaughter NANAIMO (CP) An Assize Court Jury Monday night, after deliberating three hours and 33 minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty in the manslaughter charge against Frank Homeniuk of Duncan. He had been charged following the death of Eric Andrew Lindstrom in Duncan May 10 following a fight after a dunce HUNTERS CUT. SHORT TRIP TO HELP POLIO VICTIMS VANCOUVER it A one-year-old Indian girl dlpd of polio late last week as three Vancouver hunters were rushing the child and three other Indians to hospital at Burns Lake from their wilderness home at Fort Bablne. The hunters cut short their trip in the Fort Babine area to treat 12 sick Indians in the Isolated tribe and bring the four by boat through perilous waters to Burns Lak, Ketchikan haven't survived too well this year's disastrous fishing season which saw the whole ot Alaska only pack slighUy over halt a million cases of salmon compared to a normal pack of 10 times tfiHt figiue. screen set.s pay more, mhtuly i But while Ketchikan bus been