a Socred "Bonus" : “Daily Delivery ~ —@ DIAL 2151 DRUGS a Cerna gee Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port - — -And Key to te Great Northwest t VOL, XLV, No, 193 a “ohn, N.B,, two members of the electrical department aboard HMCS Bonaventure, check the bower supply for the latest available electronic equipment fitted in Canada’s new aircraft and aircraft carrier, al. Dunsmulr Street, “Stevenson Choice The 18,000-ton carrier {s now and. will be commissioned in October. being bul Of U.S. Democrats By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer CHICAGO (CP)—The Democrats, confident and! ready to challenge the Republicans for the White House with Adlai I. Stevenson as their presidential nominee, prepared today to select a vice-presidential ed States election, - Stevenson surged to a clear-! cul first-ballot nomination vic-! tory Thursday: night = and: promptly broke with old-lne po-. Jitical tradition by telling the: Democratic national convention | that-il, and not he, would make! the’ decision on the vice- -presi- | dential candidacy, The 56-year-old former gov-. ernor of Illinois, with a shrewd. plece of political generalship, hus challenged the Republicans, It open up their vice-presiden- Lal nomlnation when they meet th San Francisco beginalng next werk, IMPRESSIVE WIN Stevenson piled up an impres- sive total of 208ly delegate voles’ on the first bablol to evnah de Ghilvoly the presidential aspira-: tions of Governor Averell Harrt- dan,of New York, his only form- idle opponent, “Hareb drew 210 ballots, The Femalning 25644 were seablored. 1 Among an group ‘of southern "fa- mus yon” eandidutes, candidate to’coinplete their ticket for the Nov: 6 Unit® Leading ‘ine group of a dozen or so of possible vice-presidential timber is Senator Estes Kefau- ver of.Tennessec, a presidential hope who withdrew from the race for the party nomination @ month ego and’ threw his sup- port behind Stevenson in what many took as a bid for the sec- ‘ond place on the Democratic ticket. - Also high on the Het aré Sen- ator Hubert Humphrey of Wis- consin, who has been actively campaigning for the viec-prest- ‘dential nomination throughout the convention, and Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts, 39-yeur-old Roman Catholic who was selected Lo neminate Steven- 90) for the prestcentha! slot, WE! VTUE I Cloudy and cvol, Ocveaslonal: showers Saturday, Winds south. east 30 In exposed waters today dcereasing to south 20 Saturday. ow lonight and high Saturday mt Sandspit and Prince Rupert: of and be, : ‘Bargaining Expected | Ne en " LONDON (he OFC to a swllt! and outwardly fetendly start ‘the Sued Cand COMPOR EE amnoved today Into the bargatn: Ing shage, i Todny's staslan Was exporter t0 bring counler-propasils: fron Tula and fadin toa Western plan for an intarnallonal board to run the canal © An indication of the Soviet hand Was seen in Moscow Radlo broadens whieh deelared fhat the conference delegates Sean mike headway it they slut. InaAking arrangements for an tne Pads wat . to To Be Tax Free VANCOUVER (Mire Ra homwowners “bonis proposal of Premier Bennekt will nab br aubjeck to income tix, a federal Ieane tis aepresment spokas- man aad here Tharday, , MAS far as we mre eoneorned,” the spokesman sald, “ib would be nosMbAldy and worldin'h conearn the homeowner at all, Someone wiraudy paid thin the way of baxntlon Muted alflelels will send thos homeowner his reguine tax Holler, but Th wilh show gan ns puld, Mins tel nit Lle will bill the provinvelal treasury, “Today: at Canal Meet Lernational econferenee,” Pussin hay supported Baypt's mitlonalizatlon of the Sue, Ca- nal Company and clomancledl i nuch-expinded eanference ta Inelude all Arab suntes ane Communist cauntytes, The 22-countey London par: ley "enh of course he of define iba value," Moseaw Radio sald, bit only WU led tow “heuly International — aanference oor some other International pro- cedure to axamine the matter of free navigation on the Suoe Canal." The Western proposals, pre sented ab Thursday's opontig seasion,” would make Kyypt oa member of an international ap- hal bord and Vink the ageney to the United Nations, Faypl refused to attond the eonferanes called by Drltrdn, France and the United states nfter President = Nasser ane nowneed July 36 that his govern. ment was Nablonallaing the ennal company, operators of the 1. mila watorway, Bulow Nasser emilasary, Wing Cindy, All Sabry, flew here from Calro to be on the conferees scone, Babry told ropartors Waypt Ine sista on her "sole right of con tral for iho ennal and ts econ omy,” but “may he same good could frome from the Londen fale," lt at Belfast, Northern Treland Lt. Holtby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Holtby, (National ‘Defenee Photo) Fiserhower, Nixon Seen Sole Choice SAN FRANCISCO «mh — Rich- ard Nixon, vice-president of the United States, was due to arrive today at Republican national ' { midst of continued “predictions that he will be renominated: by |. ‘acclamation “next week, To Adlai Stevenson’s dramatic gesture in Chicago Thursday night of throwing the Demo- dential candidate open to the! convention there, Republicar chairman Leonard Hall only: “Tt doesn’t make any differ- enee,... They aren’t in a situ- ation such as we are where we have such a splendid team tn Washington who have the record to prove they deserve to be renominated again.” The convention opens Mandar Nomination of both presidential and vice-presidentlal candidate: is scheduled for Wednesday, High Republican fikures have predicted ~ again and again — ‘that Nixon as well as Presider ‘Hlsenhower will be renominated on first ballots, PREDICTS FIRST BALLOT Harold B. Stessen, promoting Massachusetis’ Governor Chris- Winn Herter to replace Nixon had the rug pulled from undar Jim again Thursday, Horter sate “that i his name were placed t ‘nomination he would) ask thy Droslding officer to withdraw Ut ‘He ts commilted fo nominating Nixon, Mull dinner: fo TE wil he President Eisen. [hower aid Diek Nixon on the Hflrst Ital, and T think the TF peaple will give them a Republl- remy House and Senate: lo ears Honk the program." But he con: coded (it other names ar Nixen's might be offered, The ylee-presidential tssne [s regarded as the key ana ate the Republican convention, sinec! Hsenhawer Js nol opposed for renonvini tian, pene omens ge lold a pre-convention Se enalantatuesedeanenitiiibents Peon ney Youth Fined $75 For Failure To Keep Promise A fiulluve to uphold a promise to keap the peace brought a total Of $f in fines, casts, or In de- fant of payment fal sentoneas totalling one and a half months fon Prinee Rupert youth in po» Hee court thls morning, Monding gullly before Magis. trite WD, wun was Frodorlek Bagshaw, 20 The noninlly broke down Into fInes of $80 for falluve ta keep the peace, ws promised by the neaused In courk danuary ab, $l for possesston af Hquor while ho Me under the age of 21, and $10 for hele Intoxteated in v public phine, PRINCE RUPERT, BO, FRIDAY, ‘August: ‘17, 1956 Critici YA “ft PRICE FIVE CENTS: Closer Check : Urged at Mine Where 3 Died More Safety Gear Recommended INVERMERE (CP) ~ A coroner’s jury has ree- ommended more adequate supervision of operations at the Mincral King mine to prevent repetition of an accident last weekend that: ® claimed the lives of three £ LIEUT, (1) GWYNN HOLTBY, 30, of Prince Rupert. ‘lett and CPO Kenneth Campbell, Saint miners, The jury found Thursday that Ippazio Serracizza, 26, an un- married Italian immigrant, was: kited by a blow to the ‘head from falling rock, His body was found ‘last Saturday, shortly after iron | | be I safety bars on which he and two otliers were standing collapsed and tumbled all three into a shaft along with tons of rock and mud, Leslic Rogers, 52-year- -old shift boss, and Anton Ornatowiw, 38, died of exposure and shock caused by injuries suffered when they were buried by: fallen rock. The bodies of Rogers and Orn- atowlz were recovered from un- ‘der tons of rock early Monday, convention headquarters in the: afler a continuous 42-hour Picking a, shady spot near. the CANA FOR. TWO—Ik | was a big. day, for Michael Holling s- worth, 5, of London, Ont., and his: kitten Chubby’ but the pet’ \ show. judges were so long arriving’ and.-the: weather: was sultry. water. fountain the two whiled: iit away: the time in daydreams. (CP Photo).. oR Thursday lo char ges in search. a ge. proper safety equipment be _pro- and silver producer 25 niles west of Invermere, and that there be { | sald ; | | cratic choice of a vice-prest-:adequate supervision of its use, Pair Arrested WASHINGTON (® —The FBI today arrested two ex-convicts in connection with the acid- blinding of labor columnist Vic- tor Riesel. The FBI said the ac- tual acid-thrower is dead. The two men are being held tempor- avily at least on a charge of at- ‘tempting to obstruct justice, ~The. jury, -recommengied: witha. * vided at the ming, a: zine, lead. throwing a bomb ata military The court said there was doubt whether Panayi actually threw the bomb-or only alded in the attack. It was the first of 10 death sentences {imposed on Cypriot extremists to'be commuted, Five already have been hanged ,and four others under death sen OCEAN-CROSSING RAFT REPORTED 200 MILES OFF FRENCH COAST BREST, France (Reuters)—-Conast guards here loday re- ported that the rafl l'Egare Tl, which set out from Hallfax May 24 to drift across the Atlantic, is some 200 miles wost uf nore. A signal from the raft whieh started with four men on hoard was relayed by a French trawler Thursday lo const guards, Th sald “all well on board ‘The raft's position was given as 40,08 degrees north, 10115 west,” The French Navy ministry, course of the raft, sald it assumes three men are which has been wateblng the still on board, & fourth was removed soon nafler the drift started, but sinee then there have been no radio reports of anyone, tlsa belng taken off, ANOTHER FIRST FOR BELL CAMP Cliff Lumsden Beat By AL MARKLE Canndhin Proay tare Welty VICTORIA @--Toronto's pow. erful CHE! Lumsden today bee eumo the first person ever to awh inighty Juan do Puen Birail from Canada to the Une {ted States, Lanmmadon covered tho 18,3 miles fron Vietorla to Crean Point, (lve miles cast of Pork Angelos, Wash, in tt hours and 385 mine Whos, Th was hls first bry, Lumsdon's attack on the stralt came with Hbile prior notice, Ap» parently the almost perfect wonther conditions which pro: valled brought 0 suddon deelston to mike the effort, Tho strall ind boon heaton Only oneo bofore-—from the other diroctlon--by Bort Thomas of Ticoma, Wash, who Cnished on July 8, 1005, in 1) hours and 17 minutes, NEVEROEN TROUDLE Tamisdon, five times winner of the Ounndlan National fxhibl- tlon's Like Ontarto swine and Winhct of the 26-mile Atlante City marathon this yonr, was neva I) trouble during the swin whieh began at Horseshoe May aL 2 pan, Moaesdiry, Werther and water conditions wore ideal and the watory which warayed to 65 degrecs for awhile, stayed a flat enlm tho full tlie, There was no wind lo speak of Aud Lumsden made the crossing ia direct Ino. Lumaden, Ike Marilyn Dell wha Inlled last weok In hor frst biel to win tho abrall, Is a protoge of Gus Ryder, conch at Toron- to's Lakeshore Swimming Chib, Limisden sharted his swim, the H4b whtompt on the sbralt, with A rnclip 60-04 sbroke and within in half-hour covered almost a milo, An hour fater he had doubled the distance and was slill hold- Ing the 60-stroke pace and lov. Ing a frothy wake through the still water, ' ur vo 4 Mo stopped briefly for a feed- Ing at tho two-mile mark, Navigator Capt, Ulllee Cavin, who plotted Marilyn Boll's course Inst Wook, avid Limaden wis halt on schochule, Two houra after tho atart, Ry- dor flashed Lumadon a alan which sald "Fiat wator—tiko a =— Lumsden grinned and stopped Se eR ie ote ec bred fram exile, NICOSIA (n—The cyprus Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of an 18-year-old Greek. ‘Cypriot youth, Chrysos- tomos Panayi, to life imprisonment. Hey had been convicted ‘of police ‘barracks. tence, are awaiting the cutzone of appeals, HOPE FUL V WAITING ‘British authorities, meanwhile began a perlod of hopeful wait- ing to see. whether Cypriot ex- tremists fulfill: thelr suddenly announced halt In violence or this. strategic Mediterranean island, ' Leaflets circulated. by rebels Thursday night proclaimed - “suspension of operations" oj the underground’s campalen of Violence over the issue of union with Greece, NEGOTIATIONS POSSIBLE Many observers hero feel the tL cease-fre--if genuine---conld provide asface-saying opporbun-| ity for now negollations toward a Gyprug sebblement, Such a sit. vation might allow the retin of Archbishop Makarios, splrit- wal leader of the Greck Cyprilols,. VICTORIA “( “Th e. “smear Yr ‘premier. ny that he ¢ ver’, _ ayer gee 1953, had’: 28 of the ‘9 seats: in the legislature, Unaninas 5 W. OH, (BI) Murray, 39, hota owner and’ sportsntan was. Un- animously. chosen a3 Ane: Soctal Credit candidate . ‘for’ he: Sep tember 10 ‘provinelal cloction at o nomination meeting of: eon- stituency Soereds ‘ab the. Clyle Contre lash night, 6. sy ooje Mr. Murray, (an “unsivecositul candidate In tho 1054 -el¢ctlon, sald Ne will contest the seab on the governments: record during Lhe past four-years, - The Social Credit candidate ts viene president of the Prince Ru- port Constituency, of tha BC, Palen manager - is. salesman, with ‘the sd ment Ay again,” the. Socre bearer sald tod Other: membe palgn .. committed»: Auld, Mrs, W. D,' Queon Chinwlot le Mrs Janigs Auld and: other Members of ‘the constibuancy., ‘oxeoutlvo,, YS and ‘means comiuniittee , WAS: ‘also Jsob- up composed of. Wile Mutt Boclal Credit Longue, His cane: ray, -D, la Jensen, GB, Caron, 9. Blapowich unl R..8, Woods... . - s Strait From Canadian OLIN! LUMSDIN ser tovor In trouble lis stroke Lo 64 without any ap. paront offort, Tho bhreeehour mark anv hin about O% miles out, cutting end= ily through the Adecegroe water, Ryder had’ ordered Nis atroke Be phe, \ r down to 68 by this bine; Two-nnd-one-hale hours later Lumgdon was still’ stroking 68 and showed no slgns of workon- Ings Wo splashed over tho: in|) tarnational houndary wt nD pn Another stgn hold up in ‘ho conching bont shortly after that wilds “Aulitings in aight.’ " PACED BY MARILYN Lumsdon looked ab tho bulld- ings, amilod ab Rydor and abrok~ od nhoad, Miss Boll, for whom Lumsdon noted ag pncor Inst wook, re- turtiod tha favor, Sho was in ind out of tho whtor sovoral Unies from 11:90 pam, on, Lumadon wag only about throe miles fram the | Washington shore whon fatigue appeared. to sot In, Hs stroke slowed to about Mand became raggad, A favornble tldo came wank na predictod and by midnight Lumaden was wining woll win, Tonalon mounted, fa he moved atondlly closer to ‘shove, Port Angoles roaldonts woro travelling to the landing polnt nd bouts ome ot ‘ me a oan ide Wor’: rushing aut tn the duitke News Lo-pseort, bho iburdy swims mor: a THs progress fro one mntle out heenmo gloadily Castor, building: - up lov sprint pace at 1,000 yards bontlre slarted by swim offal: vats Spotlighta fran bits “an cars on shoro’ played over’ (ie dark water and Ightod a path. From = tho: 30-yard’ mark - or he had, on tho rocky, boneh, waved ito the crowd and. then turned and: swim 0. foot ‘to. tho ove ob, on Jack Tocld, naalatant to Rydor, Wis working on -Lumadon swith: towels almost bofore: ho. wn: Wn bho bont., ist Logs. than 10 ntlinuton ‘attor. ho Wad touchod shore. ho.wis. Inn warm batho the Talnid Ohple Ing at full ateany back to Victoria” and thousands of olllvona who ned tito ook Me ! wslonin Tis : ees, . framabora, He alined forp Jnrgo who Nad gone on alent tee AVUL Pow Vv Ay HNN. Lumadon turned on all tho powr - he Ho wader to thighslooy water me longer, Navigating voxsol, Nonde a ad 50 the Se, patil 7 toal —— " zi