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the Edmonton Weather ture, winds northwest 15. High tomorrow 55. Forecast: Clear periods tomorlittle change in tempera- The Edmonton Inurnal Great One of Canada's Newspapers FIFTIETH YEAR TELEPHONE 25171 EDMONTON, ALBERTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1953 PRICE: NOT OVER 5 CENTS 36 PAGES Two Brothers Die As Boat 3 From City Die In Crashes A 17-year-old Edmonton girl was killed a few miles cast of Edmonton at 1 a.m. Sunday and two Edmonton truck operators died in southern Alberta in traffic accidents at the week-end. Dead are Lea Louise Beauchamp, 17, of 10148 113 Carl Lachoski.

29, of 9639 81 and George Geering, 37, of 9911 156 st. Miss Beauchamp, who last July, was found to be Alexandra hospital after a senger, left the road and near the British-American Carl Lachoski, 29, of 9639 81 left, and George Geering, 37, of 9911 156 Edmonton truckers who were killed accident west of steal: cine Hat at the week -end. Struck By Car, Airman Is Killed MOOSE JAW (CP)-LAC. Earl McCall of Moose Jaw was killed Friday night when struck by an automobile while he was walking from the RCAF station south of the city into town. Police said the driver of the car.

Cpl. Keith McKee of Moose Jaw, told them he was blinded by the lights of an oncoming car and failed to notice McCall, who was walking on the right side of the road with two companions. The companions were not inJured. moved to Edmonton from Legal dead when taken to the Royal car, in which she was a pasoverturned on Highway No. 16 oil refinery.

Injured in the accident were Gabriel Breault, 6044 106 fractured left leg; Madelene Hout, 11151 98 minor lacerations, and Lucien Montpetit. Legal, minor lacerations. The latter two were released from hospital shortly after arrival. Police said the eastbound car apparently plunged off the highway after missing the curve at the Clover Bar bend. Damage to the vehicle was extensive.

Dr. M. M. Cantor, provincial chief coroner, will preside at an inquest at Connelly-McKinley afternoon. neral home Monday Funeral services for Miss Beauchamp will be held at St.

Emile's church in Legal Wednesday. Miss Beauchamp had been employed in the office at the Misericordia hospital. The two Edmonton men killed in the south were employees of Fleetway Trucking Co. Ltd. They died in an accident near Whitla, 30 miles southwest of Medicine Hat.

Killed in the same mishap were Joseph Zahanovisk, of Fort Macleod, and Morris Grimshaw, of Bienfait, Sask. Three other persons were injured. Injured were Norman Christoferson, 23, of Bowden: Donald Stonnham, 23, Oakburn, and Fred Lee, 34. Lethbridge. A report from Lethbridge stated that a westbound bus, driven by Lee, had stopped to fix a broken fan belt.

Lachoski and Geering, (Continued on Page 16, Col. 1) Prisoner Commission Accused Of Circulating "Red" Letter Shotgun Blast Removes Man's Toe (Special to The Journal) CONSORT Jack Klym, of Red Deer, shot off his big toe Friday in a hunting accident. After stopping the flow of blood he drove in his truck to Consort hospital where he was attended by Dr. C. Knight.

Klym was returning from Compeer when he stopped in a tield and was moving a stook for a blind in preparation for a duck shoot. The gun accidentally went off, the blast striking him on the foot. He removed his shoe and wrapped a sock around the injured foot and then drove his truck to Consort hospital. ACTOR FOUND HANGED NEW YORK (AP) -Actor Hugh Rennie, 50, who has appeared in a number of Broadway shows, was found hanged in his Manhattan apartment Sunday night, police reported. They said it was an apparent suicide.

Where To Find It Amusements, Theatres 32 Angelo Patri 23 Baby Care, 23 Births, Deaths, Marriages 24 Bridge 34 Burgess Bedtime Stories 22 Comics 29, 34, 35 Crossword Puzzle 34 District 19 Dorothy Dix 21 Editorial Financial 10 Gallup Poll 18 Gregory Clark's Packsack- 34 Off the Record 35 Our Boarding House 26 Out Our Way 26 Radio 35 Sport 12, 13, 14, 15, 31 There Oughta Be A Law 27 They'll Do It Every Time 25 Uncle Ray's Corner 34 Want Ads 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Women's 20, 21, 22, 23 The Weather (Issued by the Dominion Public Weather Office at Edmonton A fairly intense weather disturbance will move eastward across the prairies Monday and Tuesday. Its progress will be marked by gusty winds and showers. Eastern Alberta and Saskatchewan will experience a sharp shift in wind from southeast 30 to northwest 35 and a gradual decrease thereafter. Estimated low tonight, 40. Estimated high tomorrow.

55. At Edmonton Tuesday, sun rises sets 6:20. Rainfall Saturday, trace. Temperatures Maximum temperatures yesterday and Edmonton Fairview Gr. Prairie Wh.

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Calgary Lethbriage Med: Hat Bani! Jasper Coronation Chamber's Friendship Train On Way To Saskatoon ALI 17 Carrying the goodwill of Edmonton and its business community, 90 members -of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Monday left on a three trip to Saskatoon. They will visit about 15 Alberta towns on the trip. Shown in the top picture in front of the special train are, from left: F. J. Caine, J.

A. Weber, W. H. Collie, F. T.

Jenner, in charge of the train; Don Marlett, executive secretary of the Edmonton chamber; C. W. Carry, Ed Benzil, H. 0. Patriquin, chamber president; Fred Pardee Dawson.

Below, several members show the spirit that will prevail on the trip as they pull Pulling are Alex pushing are, from nold Christenson. their luggage along the platform on a hand cart. MacDonald, left, and Dennis K. Yorath, while left, David Hubbart, Elvin Christensen and Ar(Story of departure appears on Page 17.) Britain, Egypt Agree On Suez Evacuation CAIRO (CP) A high that Egypt and Britain principle" providing for the British Suez base within 18 The informant said the last major hurdle was overcome when Britain accepted Egypt's demand that the huge base become available to Britain and the West in the future only "in case of attack on or war against one of the Arab These would include the eight members of the Arab League -Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Libya.

The source said minor points still to be threshed out are the periods during which the British experts are to remain in the base. The informant gave the following outline of the points agreed upon: 1. British troops, estimated to number 80,000, will evacuate the base within a period of 18 months from the signing of the agreement. 2. Some 4,000 British experts will remain in the base for three years following the 18-month period.

They will be under the command of the Egyptian Army commander inchief, who will be assisted by a British adviser. 3. Britain will not remove any equipment from or dismantle any installation in the base during the whole period in which the experts remain. Points of disagreement were listed as: 1. Britain wants to keep 3,000 experts for 212 years after the three-year period already agreed upon, making a total period of continued British presence of seven years.

2. Britain wants her experts to wear uniforms, Egypt insists they must wear civilian clothes. Case Held rumors are circulating that Beria has escaped. These have to be evaluated against the indubitable fact that if Beria had been taken alive Premier Georgi Malenkov's government, he then certainly became the most carefully guarded human on earth. Every one of his jailers would answer with his life any escape.

Beria's arrest was announced July 10, but it is known it actually took place June 26. The official decrees removing him from his posts as minister of internal af(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Boys' Craft Overturns On Cooking Lake Trip Three Accidents, Four Charges Costly To Driver Alien Villebrun, 42, of 10515 96 Monday was sent to jail for 30 days when he pleaded guilty 10 four charges, and admitted having been in three separate accidents early Sunday. His wife suffered a fractured skull in the last of the crashes, and was taken to Royal Alexandra hospital. In police court Villebrun was fined $100 and costs, with the option of three months in Jail, driving while his ability was impaired by alcohol, $30 and costs for careless driving, and $20 for failing to return to the scene of an accident.

jail term was imposed for driving while his license was under suspension. Police stated that about 12:30 a.m. Sunday on 84 st. at 102 ave. Villebrun backed his car into another vehicle, causing over $300 damage.

On Jasper ave. at 95 st. 8 few minutes later he went through the intersection and struck another car. At 12.40 a.m. his car collided with a parked truck on 97 st.

near 105 ave. Mrs. Villebrun was injured. Villebrun admitted that his driving license had been suspended by a Manitoba court after an "impaired" driving case. Recommend TV License For City OTTAWA (CP) The CBC board of governors today recommended that the government license television stations in Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Kingston and Kitchener, Ont.

The board picked Sunwapta Broadcasting Company ators of radio station CFRN, for approval of a television license in Edmonton. The company was one of three which applied for' a license on Channel 3. The two other Edmonton appliwhich the board recomcations, for denial came from William Rea. operator of radio station CKNW. New Westminster.

B.C., and Edmonton Television Ltd. The application from Calgary Television formed by Calgary radio stations CFCN. CFAC and CKXL, for a television station on Channel 2 was recommended for approval. The application of Brookland Company, composed of Senator W. Davies, Roy ThomRupert, son and associates, for a television station in Kingston on Channel 11 was recommended for approval.

Recommendation for approval of a television license in Saskatoon was made on the application of A. A. Murphy and Sons operators of radio station CFQC. The application of Central Ontario Television Kitchener for a television license on Channel 13 was also recommended for approval. Three Die In Fire After Collision CHICAGO (AP) -Three persons burned to death Sunday nignt in an automobile which caught fire after a collision with a taxicab on the south side.

The victims were burned beyond' recognition One was believed to be Edward Sidebotham, 18-year-old high school student, who, his stepfather told police. had borrowed the car. 'The cab driver and passenger received minor injuries. Two brothers, Morris, 14, and Oliver Belsteth, 17, drowned in a boating accident at Cooking Lake at 3:20 p.m. Sunday.

RCMP were continuing their search for the boys' bodies on Monday. The boys, whose father recently purchased a group of tourist cabins in the South Cooking Lake area, died when a rowboat in which they were riding capsized about half a mile from the shore. Witnesses to the between Cooking Lake 12 feet of water. The week-end holidayers of Edmonton. Police commandeered operations late Sunday bodies continued in accident said the boat overturned island and the bay shore, in 10 to drowning occurred as hundreds of visited the resort centre 20 miles east three boats, and began dragging afternoon.

The search for the boys' darkness until 10:30 p.m., and was Two Towns Greet Friendship Train (Journal Staff Writer) RYLEY- -Enthusiastic welcomes from more than 800 adults and school children at the first two stops en route, Tofield and Ryley, provided the setting for the 1953 Friendship Train of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. The train is bound for Saskatoon. goodwill ambassadors were greeted at the Tofield station by a group of about 400, including Scouts and Cubs under their leader, Rev. V. P.

Cole, when the eight-car train, carrying above 90 delegates, arrived at 9:15 a.m. Monday. Master of ceremonies, A. H. Elliott, introduced Tofield's Mayor Conrad Patterson who extended greetings on the behalf of the town and presented a "golden" key to A.

D. McTavish, first vicepresident of the Edmonton chamber. Also introduced was Thomas Jacobs, president of the Tofield Community League. Musical entertainment was provided at the halfhour stop by Piper Arthur Miller, Gabby Haas, Dick Taylor and Len McDonald, of the train personnel. Presents of school scribblers and noisemaker novelties were passed out to the childen by chamber members, as the children clamored for autographs.

"Everyone on the train has been thrilled with the reception given us so far." said Dennis K. Yorath, second vice- -president of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, replying to greetings extended on the train's arrival at Ryley. More than 300 students and adults met train here at 10 a.m. Representing the town were J. Mick O'Brien, president of the Ryley Board of Trade and Mayor Ernest H.

Brown. The train was scheduled to make additional stops at Holden, Bruce, Viking, (lunch) Kinsella and Irma before its arrival in Wainwright at 5:15 p.m. for a dinner sponsored by civic officials there. Labor Hears Plea For Unity In U.K. By BRANDER PARSONS MARGATE, Eng.

(CP)-Arthur Greenwood, chairman of the BritLabor party, opened the party's 52nd convention Monday with an all-out plea for an end to party bickering. Greenwood, 73, told nearly 1,300 delegates here that the convention is "on trial" and "disruption would be treason to our cause." Sitting in the front row of the platform, "rebel" leader Aneurin Bevan and five of his left-wing lieutenants listened with impassive faces to the unity plea, then heartily applauded. Clement Attlee, 70, party leader and former prime minister, then launched the delegates into debate on two foreign-policy planks which go squarely against Conservative Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's policy and against United States foreign policy. These planks were brought before the convention first because they are more liable bring a show of unity between Attlee's delegates and the Bevanites. The biggest split in the party been on socialization of industries and other domestic matters.

NINE CLIMBERS KILLED ROME (AP) climbing killed nine more persons in the Alps last week, bringing the season's death toll to 261. Whole May Never to the Soviet Supreme Court. But the trial hasn't materialized. or at a any rate nothing has been made public about it. It could be that Beria is still being worked over, to bring him to the point of an abject confession of treason.

It could be that the Soviet government is still looking around for others to be implicated with him. It's also possible the Soviet government has not yet made up its mind whether it wants to put on a big Beria "show" trial or not. And it could also be that Beria is dead. In the non-Communist world! resumed early Monday. Residents of the area said the lake water was "just average," not turbulent, but comparatively quiet.

They said there was no indication of what caused the boat to overturn. The older boy, acquaintances said, was a good swimmer, but the younger boy was not. Both were experienced in the handling of boats, and the older had been out on the lake almost every day this summer. The boys' boat, it was stated, appeared to be the only one on the lake when the accident occurred. There is little boating at Cooking Lake this late in year, a resident said.

The boys' parents are Mr. and Mrs. John Belsteth. Also surviving are three other brothers. Charge Is Reduced In Northern Death Trial of Charles Desjarlias, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death at Waterways June 4 of Theodore Bertsch, former Edmonton resident, opened before Mr.

Justice Hugh John Macdonald in supreme court Monday. Charge against Desjarlais was reduced from one of murder 10. manslaughter at the request of the crown. Three witnesses testified to events leading up to the time of the fatal assault. George Glen (Continued on Page 16, Col.

2) German Reds "Disturbed" At Rash Of Go-Slow Strikes PANMUNJOM (AP) -The United Nations Command today accused the neutral prisoner repatriation commission of circulating a Redslanted letter among 22,600 Korean, war prisoners who have refused to return to the Communists. An Indian spokesman for the neutral commission quickly denied the accusation, declaring: "As far as the commission is concerned, they have not indulged in propaganda for any side." The Indian spokesman added that the letter was broadcast as well as circulated among the prisoners as joint effort prepared by a sub-committee of the commission and all nations (on the commission) were represented." None of the warring powers is on the commission. The spokesman added that the message was "completely in accord with the terms of reference" of the armistice and that it was translated under supervision of all five nations represented on the neutral commission. Brig -Gen. A.

L. Hamblen, chief of the UN Command repatriation (Continued on Page 16, Col. 1) Seattle Man Slain In Triangle Case -A prominent businessman was shot and killed early Sunday while with the estranged wife of the man who fired the revolver. Capt. A.

W. Lyskoski gave this account: The businessman, Milton Price, 42, owner of a concrete products manufacturing firm, died of bullet wounds in the back and chest. was shot by Thomas Reeder, 54, owner of a Lake Sammanish resort, after Reeder poked his fist through a window in Price's home to gain entry, then fired at Price who was with Reeder's wife. Beulah, 44. Mrs.

Reeder said she had been separated from Reede. since December, 1952. Lyskoski said Reeder had filed for a divorce. Silence Shrouding Suggests Trial Tom Whitney has Just returned after nine vears in Moscow, six of them AS a member of the Associated Press staff there. Now A member of AP's London staff, he takes an evaluating look at the recent rumors that former Soviet police chief L.

P. Berla might have escaped from Russia, and also surveys other possibilities of Berla': fate. By TOM WHITNEY LONDON (AP)-Three months ago Soviet Police Chief Lavrenti P. Beria was arrested in Moscowand his sentence hasn't been announced yet. 1 The Soviet government promised a trial and turned the case over Egyptian official said today "have reached agreement in evacuation of the strategic months.

Burns Are Fatal To Clive Man (Special to The Journal) LACOMBE- -Leonard Reynolds, 45, of Clive, died in hospital of shock and severe burns received in an accident while repairing a tractor. Reynolds was burned when his clothes, spattered with gasoline, ignited while he was working on a new tractor. It is believed he was repairing the fuel line, and that a spark ignited the gasoline. Funeral services will be held Tuesday p.m., at the Clive community hall. Rev.

E. Davidge will officiate: Mr. Reynolds is survived by his widow, two daughters and a son. Bedbugs Used In Hotel Rivalry FRANKFURT (Reuters) A court at nearby Hanau sentenced Paul Sonnenfeld, 56-year-old hotel keeper, to three months in prison for waging unfair economic warfare by releasing 30 bedbugs in a rival's hotel: Coast Man Battles Storm Nine Hours VANCOUVER (CP) A rugged New Westminster longshoreman collapsed on a West Vancouver beach early today and came to light a story of courage against the sea. He is Sidney Hopkinson, 41, who rowed two small children through a gale with winds up to 50 miles per hour.

The three had been given up for dead for nine hours before their disabled craft touched shore. They had been at sea for 14 hours. With Hopkinson was his son. David, and a neighbor, Ronald Barclay, both 10. They went fishing at noon Sunday off Point Grey near the entrance to Vancouver harbor.

story was pieced together from then on from police and relatives. The craft's one- cylinder motor apparently failed just as the storm struck, sweeping the 14-foot vessel out into the wild Gulf of Georgia. Taking to the oars, Hop(Continued on Page 16, Col. 2) AMBASSADOR NAMED BERLIN (AP) -Vladimir Semyenov. Soviet high commissioner in East Germany, has been appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the German government, the Soviet zone news agency ADN announced today.

MacLeod Chief Seeks North America Clansmen Dame Flora Macleod, 28th chief of the MacLeods, and the first woman ever to head her clan, is serenaded by Patrick J. Kelly and Patrick J. Lavin, members of the 9th Regiment Pipe band of the City Guard, on her arrival in New York. Dam: Flora is in North America for an 11-week coastto-coast tour for the purpose of meeting kinsmen at clan gatherings to be held wherever she can find MacLeods. According to the chief, all who bear the name Macleod are members of a widely scattered family which originated centuries age on the Isle of Skre.

Te these kinsmen she is issuing a call to visit Dunvegan Castle, the clan stronghold, where Macleod chiefs have lived for 700 years. BERLIN (AP)-Sullen East German workers have thrown a new fright into Communist ranks by a rash of slowdowns in vital Russian zone plants. Evidence piled up Sunday that the Red regime seems confused as to how to combat it. The ruling Socialist Unity munist) Party sent its top troub'eshooters to Halle Saturday in an effort to find a solution. The party newspaper said Hermann Matern, politburo member and head of the control commission, found a "highly disturbing" state of affairs.

Matern reported that the big railway repair shops on the outskirts of Halle have been limping along in an obvious slowdown strike for weeks. The production plan fell 10 per cent short of normal in August and So far in September is running at only 50 per cent of capacity, Matern said. In a meeting of party leaders of the area, Matern demanded final handling of the provocateurs who are sabotaging" the economy. Halle. near Leipzig, was particularly riotous in the June 17 uprisings.

Worried government and party leaders indicated the slowdown weapon is being used in more areas. A week ago there was a hint in the Communist press that production in Goerlitz on the Polish border and in the shipyard city of Rostock was far below normal. The party's Neues Deutschland said Sunday that the "fight against provocateurs and enemies" has been too weakly handled in the entire Potsdam area, outside Berlin. Kurt Seibt, first secretary for the district, admitted in an article that "resistance by the workers" is a continuing question, He added that a machine tractor plant in Schulzendorf was plagued by sabotage and that "is not an isolated case." Despite the slowdowns. Communist officials are again calling on the workers to increase production without receiving more pay--the condition which led to the June revolt in many parts of East spokesmen now are openly saying that cuts in the working "norms" must be abolished.

Sunday the East German Communist press quoted vice-premier Walter Ulbricht, the "party boss," as saying that workers themselves in a number of factories had demanded that the decreased work norms now be stepped up. AUSTRIA EXPORTS POWER VIENNA (AP) Austria began exporting electrical power today to neighbornig Italy over a 34- mile high -tension line crossing the eastern Tyrol from the Alpine town of Lienz, Austria, to Pelo in northern Italy's Dolomites. The line will export 25,000,000 kilowatt hours a year, Eager Buyers Await Your Unused Articles overnight lows are: 58.45 Vermilion 58 36 54 39 Saskatoon 58 37 55 38 Pr. Albert 59 25 57 34 Pr. Rupert 50 43 53 29 Victoria 54 48 55 42 Vancouver 57 52 55 37 Penticton 62 44 53 36 Kamloops 61 52 56 36 Regina 60 38 60 45 Winnipeg 59 34 62 51- Ft.

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