I .' PROVINCIAL ORMES p.icvi:;ciai. Lis?.Air, If Mill 113 VICICHA, 2. C. mm IDES anctariT'""" April 28. 1954 ; v pjaiiy Delivery Phone 81 17.4 feet WO re 22:06 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pocif ic Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 98 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C.. TUESDAY. APRIL 27. 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS DRUGS (Mere Wlh Mmil vl: A Trae Dim ritain Set To Back -A .rim . .. . ;. .;: '. --ft . L t ; French Peace Plans GENEVA (CP) Russia's Foreign Minister Molotov conferred today with State Secretary Dulles of the United States and France's Foreign Minister Bidault amid conflicting reports of a British-backed French plan for an Indo-China cease-fire. Eddy Gilmore of The Associat-f -- Will Use H-Bombs Say Reds Moscow Trio Gives Warning ' Vr Y: V ,..,.. .. ,...lrill1 lumttiUM'H ed Press quoted a highly in- - formed source that Britain had iKi CABIN where Abraham Lincoln was born Is encased In this shrine in the icoln National Historical Park at Hodgenvllle, Ky. President Eisenhower recently o the shrine on his way to Fort Knox and Transylvania College at Lexington, Ky. Float Repairs agreed to back up France in t; LONDON (AP) Mos ing of Monsoons May Curb cow radio broadcast an- calling for a halt to the Indo-China fighting, but shortly afterwards Reuters news agency quoted high British sources that the report was "ridiculous." Gilmore's informant said Prime Minister Churchill had telephoned Foreign Secretary Eden from London at least twice last night in reaching the de j other warning today by a I high Soviet official that I Attacks on French Fort Ruuei'jn yrmiwl fnrruxa will m AUKS ously slow transport of the Vi ;plle the weather, French I . . The long-awaited rebels' war supplies from China. ; transport planes kept up their USC every weapon ill tneir nonsoon rums hit i The French hope this will force , crops of men, war material and Hkimunl inflnrlino- t Vi i Promised Immediately OTTAWA Federal Minister of Public Works R. II. Winters today agreed to the immediate temporary rebuilding of the Cow Bay floats for use during this fishing season, it was learned from E. T. Applewhaite, Liberal MP for Skeena. Mr. Applewhaite said in a telegram to The Daily News that the agreement followed discussions between Mr. Winters, Fisheries Minister James Sinclair and departmental officials. T U cision, but the British source j told Reuters that Eden and their enemy to taper off his ef-! food into the beleaguered fort- I 1 ' to j ana an "ui ui forts to overrun Dien Bien Phu's ; ress. lay as French and 'letminh artillery atomic and hydrogen bombs, in the event of a Churchill had not been in conversation at all. violent duels across The Vietminh's heavy antiaircraft guns again and again threw up curtains of fire at the mparts ol the be- new war This one was made by Trade Minister A. I. Mlkoyan, .speaking Monday before the Soviet Parliament. The broadcast was Molotov called on Bidault this morning at the French minister's request, but it was not known whether Bidault broached French hopes for a halt in the fighting. They were said to have talked about what countries will take part In the discussions on Indo-China at the NERO AND TITVS, five-week-'old lion cubs at the Vienna Austria) Zoo, are drawing record crowds with their amusing antics. Judging from their expressions, though, they find the paoplc who come to watch them even more amusing. monitored here. battered and outnumbered de- : fenders. ; Hut Ihe advent of the big; rains, accompanied by violent ; lll'htnlm; and thunderstorms, : also retards the French, slowing ; their tanks and armored vehicles. ; The heavy clouds and sheets of j rain today forced French planes to taper off their heavy attacks ; on the , rebel legions tightly j circling the northwest bastion, j and the lines of trucks and rooliej bringing them food and t munitions. Monday, United j Slates-supplied Corsair fighter- i bombers had swelled the French- ! Mikoyan told the Moscow Parliament his country will defend itself with "all forces and all d brief morning , the Freiun high ribed the situation ! ?hu as "unchang-here had been no 1 d fighting in the jfl artillery attack .ray. the French that a third all-:!ai:try assault on fortress defence.; time. low-flying transports, and one US civilian pilot, first U.S. rii"iialty of the war, was wounded. j j 1 1 Mother Tells About Night Of Slaying NEW WESTMINSTER. B.C. F Chief constable Sam Service Far East conference which op-' I ened here Monday. Korea is Surprise Witnesses Out down for first discussions at the Meeting Fixed To Discuss Atomic Pool means" and added: "Therefore, the latest type of weaiwns. the atom and hydrogen bombs, which in the hands of the aggressors constitute the means for unleashing war. In conference. A London report meanwhile In McCarthy-Army Probe said Churchill conferred there today with Rene MassigU, the -irs expect the piloted air force for the first ! 'our hands are reliable means for WASHINGTON if, Chuirmani after an anRiy exchange be-1 French ambassador, on the In- ( do-China crisis, and there were 1 toper or halt time for a record day of raids on 'aeons iiiiu .serl- the Vietmlnh. , defending "-"" peace, since they -c, tie , anv tween McCarthy and Senator """: GENEVA secretary the tUlid ot u-wM-wuia; , ..mvst,;.rt ' wUncse Jcihn V McCle.llanof Arkansas. "P?"8- , Jft"Amrun ! Dulles tand Foreign jMlhto want to fight. when McClellan at'clsIon mln out big-caie in- Molotov1 arranged a meeting to- This came I will be barred from testifying invrauuu in uie war. - dav discuss President Eisen- kov Names Seroy Head t-t.ifit In Assize court. hr! Monday, that Mr. Alberta Browfl handed him a rifle with the warning'. "Look out. It's; loaded." shortly after the man; he Is accused of slayhig died I Irom a bullet wound in the said Stevens had authority to overrule his subordinates and The United States has held to j hower's proposal for an atomic the belief that the fluid char acter of the war would make ssian Secret Police in the senatorial inquiry into Uie controversy between Senator McCarthy and United States Army officials. Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens was recalled for further cross-examination in the hear any cease-fire hard to enforce. An American source said Molotov saw Dulles chiefly to discuss President Eisenhower's "atomic policy," proposal but energy pool for peaceful purposes. The Dulles-Molotov talk was the first high-level meeting between Russia and the United States on the atomic question since the two ministers discussed it at the Big Four meeting In Berlin last February. Dulles had several meetings ings into charges by Stevens and others that the Wisconsin Re other matters might have beer. give Schine an army commission and thus grant McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy M. Cohn, "what they were seeking." McCarthy broke in to say he thought McClellan had Implied that McCarthy "could be bought off." Any such implication, he shouted, was "completely im-1 proper and unfair." I SI SPEM) HEARINGS Stevens, in a full day in the witness chair Mohday, also: Denounced as an "unequivocal publican senator sought special Vyacheslav Molotov remains foreign minister In the new cabinet and Marshal Nikolai Bul-ganln defence minister. Marshal Klementl Voroshllov. 73, was re-elected chairman of the praesidlum of the Supreme Soviet and automatically remains president of the Soviet stomurh. Mrs. Brown, 24 - year - old mother of three, is accused of filing a shot through the door of her tarpaper shack in nearby Mission last Dec. 2 fataliy wounding William Zahar, 45-yetir-old telegraph linemen. Mi". Brown pleaded nut guilty to 1he charge of murder. Chief Service said she told him she re-loaded the rifle, "be- military favors for a former His statement was. greeted with tumultuous applause, Moscow radio reported. Yesterday Premier Malenkov and Mikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist party's central committer, spoke to the Parliament along similar, lines. r . ' Malenkov told the Supreme-Soviet Monday that if atomic wen pons were used in a third world war against Russia, "there can be no doubt that the aggressor would be crushed by the same weapon." Such an adventure, he added, would "lead Inescapably to the downfall of the capitalist social system." Khrushchev Joined Malenkov in denouncing United States policy as aggressive. aide, Pte. G. David Schine, and subsequently with Soviet ambassador Georgt Zarubin In Wash their counter-charges that army officials sought to halt McCarthy's search for army sub ington on the question. Contents of proposals Dulles handed Zar state discussed. Eden also conferred with Bidault. this morning and later gave a luncheon for him and Dulles. After talking with Bidault for 40 minutes, Molotov broke off the discussioas, saying he had important business with Dulles. The Russian promised to resume his talks with Bidault Wednesday. , versives. a iyil.i LLcifiii fif Mir KimrrniP - Premier Cieorgl :ar:i?ed the Soviet iiy in a swecpnfg brought a new an secret police. ; P'jtice was hand- ' 1 Semy. until now ne ministry of the at smiling today :e Soviet of fill him Bovcrnment big ovation. Jte session of Rus-e assemhly, 1,347 ail parts' of the ap;laurlel a new hieh the prime "ntrci. They rose !,,r three minutes M was put to the With McCarthy promising to ... statements by McCarthy "hought the man would -' Soviet's two chambers re-elected be buck." produce "information of trc- I fjonn that he once suggest- Molotov. Uulgaiiln and Lazar Ka- t " , , - j, 1 , ' ; v i ; ...... - 1 , 'i 4 4. 1 ' t 4 I k - i . .... i , -' - ? , ; " j i i 4. F.' -vti. 1 v . -..s.r i ' -vr r - - -1 -- i -iv ! 1 : i ubin then have not been disclosed. Eisenhower proposed the atomic pool for peaceful purposes in a speech Dec. 8 to the United Nat'ions Assembly in New York. mendous importance" from wit i ed they shift their attention to the navy or the air force. Service testified Mrs. Brown snid in statement Zahur knocked on the door and railed "It's me honey, 1H me in." Mrs. Brown told the man "You ganovich as first deputy premiers They also elected six deputy premiers, Anastas Mikoyan, who remains minister of domestic trade, Maxim Bnburov, Michael Addressing the Supreme Sov- nesses he refused to name in advance, Mundt, Republican senator from South Dakota, suid in an interview: "If McCarthy comes forward with any startling new evidence, the sub-committee's staff will have to go over It first. Yesterday's session broke up had better say your prayers or lc aft(,r MaiPllkov, Khrushchev Peivtikhin. Ivhii Tevosynan. Vya go on,' beiore me rule went on !Nltld: ..Tf anybody thinks, as Hit Russian Diplomats To Leave Australia by Sea This Week cheslav Malyshev and Alexei and the bullet went through the lrr thought, that we arc weak Said McCarthy never threatened htm if favors for Schine were not forthcoming." Nor did Cohn ever voice threats to him personnally, the secretary said. Bishop Webster Gets New Post OTTAWA KB Most Rev. Benjamin I. Webster, auxiliary bish i door. Kosygin we will snow uiein, nxe timer Just how weak wc are." WORKER WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE RESCUING DAMSELS firemen i ' , . tions because of Australia's decision to grant Vladimir Petrov, former secret police chief at the embassy, and his wife, Eyokiya, political asylum here. The Russians say Petrov is "a criminal" and that his wife has been "kidnapped." The Soviet government has CANBERRA (Reuters) The Soviet embassy staff will leave Australia for Russia by sea this week following the break in diplomatic relations over the Petrov affair, it was officially announced today. Sir Philip McBride, acting external affairs minister said two airliners have been chartered by op of Toronto since 1946, has been appointed bishop of Peterborough, Ont. UlHall Most Rev. Giovanni Panico, "res an over apostolic delegate to Canada, early today announced the ap also ordered the Australian em- - the Australian government to i bassy staff In Moscow to return pointment of the '56-year-old bishop. "I can't get in because the bathroom door is locked," she sobbed. The workman borrowed a ladder, scurried up it and broke In the bathroom window. He soon discovered that the maiden in distress was not really in distress, but only asleep. She woke with a start, slapped him in the face and screamed: "Get out of here, you nasty old man." LONDON ( Reuters The story of a workman who rushed up a ladder to rescue a lady who supposedly had fainted In her bath and got his face slapped for his trouble was told today as a warning to other would-be heroes. A mother shouted down to a workman that her daughter had fainted in the bath. Bishop Webster succeeds Most home, but nas aeiayea ineir departure, presumably until the Russian diplomats here have left. take the embassy staff from Canberra to Perth, where they will board the ship New Australia. The Kremlin broke off rela,- Rev. J. G. Berry, who was ap pointed archbishop of Halifax last Dec. 2. auernoon and ,e(1 the number at-p,'in'e Rupert fire " 'hf past 10 days, another warning Karl Becker to rubbish, yesterday asked to burn rubbish refill, but des- there were six "A. most of "ening . Saturday ; 1 total for last Parade Gives Residents Preview Of Navy, Sea Cadet Inspection " ' welter said to- rjnperj Prince Rupert saw a preview NO COMMINICATIONS The external affairs department today said that communications with the embassy in Moscow were no longer possible. And a department spokesman added that "the consequences could be dire" if anything goes wrong with arrangements for the Australian staff's departure. The' Russians so far have not given them exit visas. It was learned ofncially that the Tass agency representative In Australia, Victor Antonov, will be among the party given facilities to leave. BULLETIN yesterday's tld be aii of the forthcoming official in for this spection of the personnel of , ;f 1 on rubbish ..f" or allowed WMrol by home. lef urged resi- Kennedy and a platoon of seamen, led by Lt. Lloyd Berryman, and B. Company, including two divisions of Sea Cadets with Lt S. E. Alexander in command, and Lt. Art Ogllvie and Lt. Gerry Woodslde In charge of. the respective divisions. PO Don Hodges assisted in marshalling Hitparade. The inspection- will be held outdoors If weather permits. 'I . ... ' 1 . ; r i I i : - f I JSl t tiJmJ, 1.. i ; laretu' with HMCS Chatham here last night when Wrens, men and cadets staged a dress rehearsal parade along Third Avenue. The marchers, smart In their summer whites were commended by Cmdr. T. A. Johnstone following the parade and urged to present the same show May r(, for the inspecting officer, Captain P. D. Budge. 1" the fire de- '""ission before !!' 80 tht re- t. - . "'twarned. Rather" VICTORIA (CP) Dr, John B. Lt. Cmdr. Jim Foster led last Munro, former Deputy Minister of Agriculture In British Colunv ""ast ' A few bia, died here Monday. He was night's parade which compriseu: A Company, commanded by Lt Walter Smith. Including the 62. LONDON (CP) Prime Minister Churchill announced today Britain will not consider military Intervention in Indo-China before the windup of the Geneva conference. "We have not entered into any new military or political commitments,' he told the Commons, amid cheers. BILLY SHF.PARD now believes in the saying that a man is not without honor, save in his own country. Shepard, 23, a native of St. Louis, Mo., and a former newspaperboy, has become an overnight singing sensation in London. Shown against the background of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Shepard was spotted in the U.S. by a British night-club Impresario and offered a brief engagement In London. An Immediate success in the British capital, Shepard now says,'"I hope I can keep up the pace when I return home to the U.G " ..' Chatham band under PO Peter RECENT COMMENTS on the apparent physical weakening of Sir Winston Churchill Invite a comparison between his appearance today (left) and how he looked several years ago. At left he Is shown as he received a visitor from Denmark last week and at right he Is pictured at his country home shortly before the elections of 1951. Dr. Munro retired three years ago because of poor health. He joined the department in 1920 Lien, a guard of honor led by SubLt. Tom Naka, a platoon of ,.--'ruy. 30 and il : Prince after service with the federal officers under Lt. Vic Wilson Wrens headed by SubLt. Dlano1 government. . ; '