Lethbridge Herald, The (Newspaper) - January 11, 1954, Lethbridge, Alberta HIGHLIGHTED IN THE Good Year In Prospect KP This should OB a ing one from all important standpoints the Monti eal zetter says in its annual com- review forecast The satisfactory year is ex- even should the hended recessive adjustment occur j The review is re- plete with articles by heads of virtually every segment of Canadian industry business and railways to radio banks to budgets farm to factory X X X X NEW HIGH POINTS In 1953 says the review Canada High 25 Little Change VOL 25 LETHBRIDGE ALBERTA MONDAY JANUARY 11 1954 CENTS TWO SECTIONS 16 PAGES Call for Early Meeting Indians Want UN General Assembly To Discuss Korea NEW DELHI AP India formally called today for the UN General Assembly to reconvene at an early date to consider the Korean question Indian officials refused to say what date they had recommended for the assembly to be recalled but they insisted the action was not intended to delay pave towaru cne 11 p t i latter pan of the year despite the the treeing of war prisoners who have refused to be soft spots and sticky problems repatriated that arose the year as a whole set new high paints of advance m the That is a matter f or the two commands to settle the and as far as India is concerned Jan 22 is the line for their release under the agreement of those a government spokesman said India addressed her request for the recalling of Had Been Confused enjoyed another productive rnd prosperous year a continuation of pyramiding and output since the ond World War Despite the declaration of the general economic pace toward the The balance of and was thai the mentum sustained in the past as well as the soft spots and lems X X X X Kev yardsticks further gams Volume and ue of a 1 duction primary natural ducts industrial turnout climbed to new higl levels Development of primary re- sources and expansion of facilities of all kinds continued on a large scale ported by a still greater tide of capital investment fiom within the country and from other countries As a sult indices for employment earnings and reached records A feature of the eco- nomic picture WPS the acceleration of for new construction especially of residential units Housing construction should pet a further fillip from projected legislation The review finds it cant that half of ada's net adverse trade balance was traceable to a decline of in exports which in turn arose fiom shrinkage in business with all countries other than the United States x x x KEEN COMPETITION This is plain to dian producers and exporters that countries are not ter able tn meet their own for products supplied bv Canada l the pi a but are able to pick and choose because of sharper competition from other exporting nations Canada also faces keener com- petition and the prospect of ping prices in the marketing of this country's huge wheat surplus which is parallelled by surpluses in the other big U.S Australia and Argentina Edmonton Calgary Medicine Hat oon Victoria Vancouver 44 28 Winnipeg -3 -18 Toronto 8 -7 Ottawa -3 -16 Montreal 01 SYNOPSIS There will be a slow westward ad- vance of cool air into eastern berta today and Tuesday ever the cold front is not ex- to reach a position farther west than Lesser Slave lake milion and Medicine Ha by Tuesday noon In all other sections Tuesday's weather will be unchanged fiom day Mostly clear and mild Is thp forecast for all western sections of Alberta Cloudy and rold with occasional light snow describes the anticipated weather in wan and the extreme eastern tions of Alberta FORECAST and Medicine A few clouds today sunny day with Jittle change in winds west 15 5 and 25 Medicine Hat -5 and 15 Reds Propose Reopening Negotiations Com- today proposed ing of the nary negotiations for a Korean peace conference State department tive Kenneth Young said he re- the request in a letter from the Communists this afternoon He said he relayed the letter to Washington and I am awaiting official tion Any decision Mill have to come from Washington Red China's radio said the Communist letter asked for a meeting of liaison officers at Pan- Wednesday 9 p in EST Tuesday to discuss a time for re- I suming the negotiations The Red move came as India officially requested that the UN assembly in New York Feb 8 or 9 to discuss the Korean question CONSIDER NEW PLAN And in Seoul a high said the Indian command is considering a new plan to solve the critical PoW problem The source who old of the In- dian prisoner plan said it may of- fer a wav out for the Indians who are caught in a blazing crossfire between Allies and Reds The source said the Indian plan Is to turn the prisoners back to the side and the prisoners hack to the Communists would be held until the two commands agree to their disposition or until another neutral is set up to handle the problem COMMISSION ABSOLVED The souice said K S Indian chairman of will stipulate thai should side ils prisoners thr commission would be in nc way to The source said the Swedish and delegates on the would vote witn him outnumbering the Communist Czechs and Poles the assembly to Mrs jaya Lakshmi Pandit the assembly president who is also Prime Minister ru's sister Mrs Pandit who returned here after the assembly recessed Dec 9 said through a man she had forwarded the In- dian request immediately to UN headquarters in New York for its distribution to the BO member states Thirty-one of these must agree before she can summon the assembly NO COMMENT Early today there uas no mation available at UN quarters in New York that the In- dian request had been received and UN sources were not im- mediately available for comment An official statement said the In- dian government had the reconvening in reasonable time prior to the dissolution of the tral Nations Repatriation of which India is chairman It was generally believed that India asked that the bly meet the first week in Sunday night an official said In- dia had asked that the assembly be called back Feb 9 A ment spokesman said India considers Fob 22 the on which the repatriation commission is to be dissolved Explosion Sends Jet Airliner To Its Doom Press Canadian Speaking fiom the Tokyo U.S army hospital Cpl Batchelor the U.S prisoner who returned to the UN after first embracing communism said he had been confused and now rejects the Communist line of teaching He I am sorry if I helped persuade anyone to believe the Communist propaganda that America was an aggressor tion in Korea He also ed he never informed on any Allied prisoner while interned by the Alberta Liberals To Contest Red Deer By-Election INNISFAIL Alta berta Liberals will definitely contest the by-election in the Red Deer constituency Feb 15 Tlie decision to enter a was leached at a ing of the sociation A nominating convention will be held at end of the week Plans were for a convention slated for Edmonton either in the ter part of March or early in April Success By French SEND API French parachutists and North African troops kept up a of hide and seek with in the northeast of this fortress The French forces claimed moie than casualties among their rebel enemy and asserted they had wiped out any serious menace m central Laos They are fighting one of the most important battles of the wai Ho Chi It ts a battle without front on no no ition in a quadrangle 25 in central Laos The Fiench commander Gen Andre said the mmh no longer me capable of mounting an attack or Scno unless they receive from other fronts 70 Rich Men Die In Crash SHREVEPORT blazing plane crash killed the presidents of Braniff International Airways and Texas ern Gas Transmission Co and 10 companions day night The plane smashed into an unoccupied house and burned for more than two hours ing 10 wealthy passengers and two pilots returning from a weekend in the iana marshlands near the Gulf coast There were no ors The dead included Thomas iff of Dallas Tex president of Bianiff and R H Hargrave of Shreveport president of Texas Eastern which operates the famed big inch and little inch gas pipeline to the east The bodies remained unidentified eaily today because they were badly mangled and charred The big seaplane owned bv United Gas Co went down at Wallace Lake 10 miles south of here T J Rucker of Shreveport the first on the scene said I was driving to the lake when I heard the crash I got there and saw sistance was impossible I called the CAA office at the port municipal airport The plane tore a swath through the trees and undergrowth before it hit the house United Gas the passenger list also included Chris Abbott 65 Neb one of s leading bankeis Tobm 58 San Antonio Tex head of larce mapping firm Justice R Sr 61 director of Shi port's First National Bank Ran dolph Sr 59 his brother a wholesale electrical compan head and E Bernard Weiss Shreveport vice-president of Gold ring's Inc a clothing chain Canadian Arrested Press Canadian One of four persons charged with participating in the 1948 shooting of union chief Walter Keuther Clarence Jacobs has been arrested In Windsor Ont Though not releasing details U.S police say they are sure they have now solved the at- tempt on life which came close to being successful Mystery of Missing Yacht Is Solved TEL AVIV m The myster of a missing vacht with 11 young was solved Sunday Police launches have been combing IhP eastern Mediterranean for the craft manned by of the Youths Yachting Club overdue here since Thursday Officials of thp United m i x p c armistice the youths and the yacht are safe m Lebanon and Lebanese officials were preparing to send them home Aged Tree Takes on New Lustre in The Left Hand Corner Rivalry Between Cities Business Bigness of chill all the men who rise to the greatest heights of nnd statesmanship also arouse the affection of others for qualities of and ity the Toronto Telegram Sir Churchill while enrich ing literature and ing great to the fiee world also many of the hidden of true greatness The by in- viting its refers to send in illian stories has published some that will likey endure for a long time the qualities of human In the ing the war Si Winston went over to James the leader of the left-wing Labor Party to reproach him bout an exchange THE LEFT END CORNER Continued Three Queen Speaks in Wellington WELLINGTON ters The Queen today claimed her faith in the Com- as a great force for good in the world and described present difficulties as a lenge The arduous times are a chal lenge lo us to exert the Common influence telling she said in reply I the loyal toast nt a state in Parliament House The Queen reaffirmed the dedi cation of herself and of the Duk of Edinburgh to devote their live and energy to the advancement o heir peoples the Com Saying she felt New Zealand wa crossing the threshold of a grea era the Queen May you continue to seize opportunities which here have been so richly bestowed and may vou never fail in your to follow the paths of peace ant 01 dei ly progi ess to which your steps are already turned so that the to come will honor your names and this nation and the British people which gave it birth COMMONWEALTH INFLUENCE The theme of the Commonwealth's lip ahead of she said Our resources are inexhaustible anc Siven peace we can achieve much for the advantage of mankind Wellington people saw their first on the spot telecast when the Royal visitors attended a civic re- ception at the town hall earlier m he day Viewers saw the Queen and the duke accept embroidered rugs for and for Charles and Princess Anne Each rug bore the coat of arms of the city On behalf of the Maori people the Queen was given a carved staff and he duke a ceremonial Maoli ax nf greenstone a type of jade mined in Zealand Russian Trawler Seized by Norway OSLO Norway's state radio today that Norwegian of- had seized a Russian trawler t said was fishing illegally in territorial waters above the Arctic circle The radio said the rawler tried to escape and the Norwegian inspection ship which ound it had to fire several warning hots before officials could board it The trawler was reported taken to a Norwegian Arctic sea port lear the Russian border Even the most aged tree disfigured broken and bruised by wind and storm retains a prida of being with a mantle of white snow The tree in the foreground above forms part of a typical winter scene at Gait Gardens And although this veteran tree not tower to like a mountain or like an oak shelter its great limbs as some are glisten with a snowy covering and in its own strange symmetry is outlined against a pattern of the slender branches of taller more fragile trees Photo by Brunelle Herald Engraving WHITE ELEPHANTS MEAN MORE CASH Useless to you they bo useful to someone else To quickly turn your household white elephants in easy cash place A Classified Ad In The Herald Several of stair pet like new with brass rods large mahogany case Phone Both were sold to a fied buyer the first evening the ad appeared Phone 5781 Ask for Want Ads r 20 Passengers Are Reported To Be Still Missing PORTO AZZURRO and ships searched the stormy freezing Tyrrhenian sea off Elba's Point Calamity today for the bodies of 20 persons still missing in of a British Comet jetliner A fishing boat recovered the bodies of the 15 others aboard Sunday The pride of British air transport plunged into the sea between Elba eon's island of exile anc Commies Seek Reopening of Truce Talks the isle of of the northwest coast of th Italian peninsula Pilot of the was Capt Alan Gibson holder of the Dis- Flying Cross whose wife Elizabeth was waiting for him with the couple's four-year-old twins and baby son in London With Mif weie her par ents Mr and Mi5 E B Archibald who a fishing camp a Ont and recently ar rued in for a visit There were 29 passengers rew six including Gibson aboard Today British Oversea had not given them up for lost but senior an line official m Rome said I believe there are no survivors Fishermen here said even if anyone survived the crash Tie could not have lived long in the frigid waters HAVE EXPLODED Though BOAC officials in Rom and London viere skeptical a pie 20 PASSENGERS Continued on Page Two Viscount Simon Passes F VISCOUNT SIMON CP Simon leading British jurist and cabinet minister in two liars died HP was 80 Simon formerly foreign secretary and chancellor of the Lord Simon had been ill in a London hospital since mas Early today his condition suddenly turned critical Lord Simon one of the greatest minds of his time gave up a practice as a lawyer iO ngo for the greater tasks of statesmanship and played a central pait in many historical of his time He served under we prime ministers and was m he thick of affairs during the ab- of the Duke of Windsor during Munich Pact in 1938 and n the difficult transitions between and wni MAN OF MUNICH Viscount Simon was a man of Munich He never ceased to ain that thp late prime minister Seville Chamberlain's Munich Pact vith Hitler uas right VISCOUNT SIMON Continued on Page Two Seen and Heard ABOUT TOWN SORORITY sisters lending a helping hand and pushing Joyce Ives car a few blocks to get it slanted Flying Club bringing back memories of summer as they lounged in the sun on a bench in front of the hangar Sunday Jim Dickie and Gay Wensveen keeping everybody howling with laughter at the meeting of the St Patrick's Kayo Club successor to CYO Ken Brown of the CPR ticket office reporting ing his annual rabbit in the city This one appeared at the corner of 5th Ave and 13th St S radio said tonight the Communists have sent a letter to UN of- asking a reopening of the preliminary negotiations for ft Korean peace conference The broadcast said tile letter ed the TIN command to send liaison officers to Panmunjom afc 11 a m Wednesday 9 p.m Tuesday EST to meet with Communist liaison of- to discuss the time for ing the talks Preliminary negotiations to ar- range for the conference were broken off Dec 12 when U.S special envoy Arthur Dean walked out on Red negotiators after the ists had accused the U.S ment of perfidy Dean said then that the Reds would have to withdraw the charge If they wanted the preliminary negotiations to continue Later however a source in Korea said the US might consider a direct Red move to get the talks going again as to withdrawal of the perfidy accusation Peiplng said the Communist ter was accompanied by statements from Red China's premier and for- eign minister Chou and North Korea's foreign minister Nam II calling for speedy convening of the conference Report Molotov Has Suffered A Heart Attack Wi London Daily Sketch said Sunday that Foreign Minister V M Molotov of Russia has suffered a heart attack according to tion received in London The newspaper does not ther identify its source There has no mention of any Molotov illness from Moscow The Daily Sketch says that according to its informant lotov collapsed in the Kremlin a week ago The foreign ister was able to fulfil his cial duties as late as last however A Soviet communique last Thursday said Molotov received Ambassador Charles E Bohlen on the previous day FLASHES 22 DIE IN CRASH CALI Colombo Airlines transport crashed near Monday killing 22 passengers reports received here said MO BENEFIT SEEN Manitoba witness Monday told the board of transport commissioners none of the proposed new freight rate scales being ered by the board would fit that province WARRANT ISSUED Ml A warrant charging assault with intent to murder was issued on Monday against Donald Ritchie year-old missing key witness in the 1948 attempted nation of CIO ter P Reuther Ritchie is a Canadian 22 STORM DEATHS NEW en by high winds in zard conditions piled higher and higher Monday in the worst winter storm to strike the eastern United States in years Twenty-two deaths were ELECTION ORDERED LONDON Reuters Kremlin Monday ordered wide elections or a new Supreme Soviet parliament to be held March 14 Moscow radio said The four-year of the ent Supreme Soviet March 13
