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CALGARY HERALD SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR 10 cent. 48 PAGES (Including Cemle SactteM CALGARY, ALBERTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1954 CALGARY THE ritain's Strike Ends Bank Robbery Suspect Held Man Arrested In Windsor Believed Gunman Who Held Up Bank Oct. 19 Taking $3,195 A 32-year-old man is being held by police in Windsor, for questioning in connection with the $3,195 bank Eerie Fog Clings Jo Coast City, Tugs Grounded Air, Sea Travel At Standstill For Third Day After Long, Costly Tie-Up robbery in Calgary Oct. 19. This information was telephoned to Calgary police to- 3....

,1 Wlrlt 44,000 Men To Return To Job Monday Morning LONDON (Reuters) Britain's crippling month-long day a few hours after the suspect, Ernest Joseph Amato, VANCOUVER (CP Three tugboats went aground, air traffic was halted and land traffic slowed to a crawl Friday as an eerie fog shrouded the Vancouver district for the third successive day. The tugs, one of them carrying recently of Windsor, had been taken into custody. The announcement by Chief Constable L. S. Partridge came 1 1 I I a crew of 10, went aground at the entrance, to Vancouver harbor but were not in danger.

They were umn. sliikc, cum iiic tuuiiujr iiiuuuiia, xaiu OOO ships and kept 44,000 longshoremen idle, ended today. Dock workers at key ports involved, endorsed their leaders' proposals for a return to work Monday. It was the largest dock stoppage since the general strike of 1926. Its spread to provincial ports held up imports and exports worth $550,000,000 and cut production in many facf fnrips 3, expected to be refloated at high tide today.

THE DENSE FOG again disrupt ed operations at International air u.3. uipiomats Privately Veto Adenauer Plan State Department Refuses Comment On Proposal port. An east bound Trans-Canada The chaotic congestion of shipping and piled-up goods in the ports will take several weeks to clear. Effects of the Airlines flight was the last plane after extensive police work in which police from the Pacific Coast, to Ontario had been alerted to be on the lookout for Amato whose description tallies almost perfectly with that of the wanted bank robber. ON OCT.

19 at 2:30 p.m., a lone gunman walked into the southwest branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia, 20th St. and 33rd and told the woman teller: "Don't do anything. Don't press anything and nothing will happen to you. Give me the money." She turned over $3,195 in 20s, 10s and and he walked out the front door. He made his Retaway in a car stolen from a business place near the scene.

While the robbery was being carried out he kept a revolver, hidden Under an overcoat, over his arm, pointed at the teller. to leave at 7 p.m. M.S.T. before all craft were grounded at the air aa a-, a I. Will ijitj port and the alternative field at Queen Mother Abbotsford, some 35 miles from here.

factories to the shops for several months. The end of the strike was signalled by a mass meeting of Lon T.C.A. officials said their trans I Compiled from AP, CP A fteuter) While keeping silent officially. I ft -I continental flight, scheduled to ar don dockers. 3 If Jt rive at 7:36 p.m., continued on to United States diplomats today pri Vancouver island whjle two other vately turned thumbs down on Before the London vote, sympa- th.v strikers in Liverpool.

Tilburv flights were held up at Calgary and r.omonton. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's proposal for an eventual non-aggression pari between Other airlines reported similar and Hull had decided to go back to work Monday. Birkenhead and Rochester then gave their ap-. difficulties and did not expect to THE SUSPECT has a previous ithe West and the Soviet bloc. resume operations until noon to Requests for official reaction to day.

followed, completing the list of eight ports affected in the country Goes Shopping In New York Most Purchases Destined For Royal Family NEW YORK (CP) Queen Moiher Elizabeth did her Christmas shopping early during an un- MEANWHILE, no serious traffic accidents were reported overnight as motorists heeded police warn ings to proceed cautiously. While the sea of fog played havoc with travel, thugs took advantage Adenauer's suggestion, made in a speech here Friday, were met with a "no comment" at the state department. HOWEVER, officials familiar with U.S. policies confided the Adenauer proposal goes far beyond any position the U.S. could take in the foreseeable future.

The chief reason'cited was that neither President Eisenhower nor State Secretary Dulles has any intention of sanctioning, even indirectly. Red domination of great of the semi-blackout by staging at wine waiKoui. STRIKE LEADERS easily con-' vinced their followers today they had won enough concessions to a return to work. Only about 10 of the 5,000 dockers present opposed the hack-to-work call. Cheering ran through the east end park where the meeting was held when the strikers were told; "we have reached a glorious vie tory." -va Port organizations were informed 'scheduled tour of Fifth avenue least two holdups, an attempted holdup and a purse snatching.

One of the holdups occurred at a branch of a finance company and a lone gunman escaped with about $320. Poliee believe the same man robbed a jewelry store of $250 record, and his picture is on file with Calgary police. It was only a few hours after the robbery that police started checking Amato's whereabouts. It was known at that time he had been living in Wind-aor, but had made two trips from that city within the past two months. It is known also by police the accused was in Vancouver on one of these trips.

The next, step by Calgary police probably will be to send a member of the Bank of Nova Scotia staff, probably Paula Gryschuk, the teller who was robbed of the money, to Windsor. IF THIS IS DONE Miss Grys-rhuk probably will he shown Amato in a police line-up. Should she pick him out, he will be returned to Calgary to face the charge of armed robbery. Police said Miss Gryschuk's description of th robber tallies with that, of Amato who has dark, bushy hair, a rather prominent areas of the world. Felix von Kckhardt.

West German information chief, apparently of the decision and preparations shops Friday. Enjoying a day off from official engagements, Her Majesty visited Saks Fifth Avenue and Hammach-er Schlemmer, two of New York's most expensive stores, and Schwarz' top shop, huying a few Christmas gifts for her daughter, the Queen, and her grandchildren, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. HUNDREDS MILLED about the entrance to the stores when word got around that the Queen had gone shopping. Recular shoppers began immediately for the reopening of all strike-bound ports, MAIN GRIEVANCE in the strike has been the longshoremen's claim in Thursday night's fog. In another holdup, two men made off with $20 after tying up a shoe store manager and his assistant in suburban Richmond.

Newspapers Praise Flood Aid Donation that overtime should be voluntary not compulsory. The strikers will return to work with an assurance that no one will be punished for refusing overtime. sensed the possibility of U.S. objections to the Adenauer plan because he called a press conference several hours after the chancellor's talk to the National Press Club. VON ECKHAROT told reporters that what Adenauer had in mind was a series of agreements to be undertaken one at a time, rather than a sweeping East-West pact.

The West German information official also said the first such agreement logically could deal with disarmament, which he termed "the decisive point of tension." LONDON (CP) British news already in the stores were allowed' During negotiations overtime will papers today gave front-page prominence to the government's nose, and a sallow complexion. It tallies also with the description given police by D. B. Rathbone, to remain, but were held back from the Queen's immediate vicinity by two New York policewomen. The women officers, first, of their be voluntary.

But Dick Barrett, secretary the National Amalgamated Steve the bank manager. dores and TVirlrprs' Union, whirh sex to be assigned to euard the The getaway car used in the hold-up was owned by Lawrence Queen, wore regulation police donation of 25.000 (about $100,000) to the Ontario flood relief fund. The gift was Friday night from 10 Downing Street. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express reports that the decision to make a donation followed a cabinet meet pistols. AT SAKS Fifth Avenue the 4 THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT ON SOMME CRESCENT neor Currie Borrocks Friday afternoon.

A lorge fire truck arrived at the home of Tommy Mason, seven, and three firemen from No. 5 hail, Harold Smith, Bob Romney ond Air Barron turned over a shiny new wogon to the young Calgarion. The wagon is to replace one stolen from Tommy's home, eorlier in the week. A wagon meons lot lo Tommy becouse each day he uses it to pull Dovey Stomp, five, a polio victim, to school and back. After thanking the firemen, Tommy Friday afternoon immediately wheeled the new "chariot'' over Dovey's home to give him a ride.

He is shown above with Dovey ond the firemen Romney and Barron beside the fire truck outside his home. Dovey's crutches also fit into the new wagon. Herchak. 3612 Centre A St. n.k.

It had been parked with the ignition keys in it a few doors from the bank entrance. A few hours Queen Mother spent about an hour has led the strike, urged London dockers to do all the overtime they i can "to get this port back into a working condition." HE DECLARED: "Show the public, show the government and show the world that, when you wanted the principle it was not for Adenauer reasserted his devotion to the concept of co-operation among the Western nations. He outlined in broad strokes a program embracing Allied defence, economic and social progress, imposition of purely defensive limit after the hold-up it was found 20 blocks from the scene. picking out. clothes.

For Queen Elizabeth she bought a cornflower blue cashmere skirt and sweater, nd a white cashmere sweater with jewelled trimmings. For. Princess Margaret she bought" a skirt and sweater in red and a sweater on the alliance and negotiation of non-aggression treaty with the Soviet bloc. Eisenhower Drive Stirs Doubt The Weather MILD Seaway me sane or aoannoning overrane. Tht national dock labor board reported that the strike today involved 44,326 workers, an Increase of 232 since Friday- The rise was due to a sudden spread at Manchester where another, 300 mefl walked out overnight.

A SECOND STRIKE along th River Thames of 8,000 hip re pairers was not affected by the end of the dock strike. This strike. Our Luck Holds trimmed in pink. Princess Anne will get three pleated child's skirts, two jersey blouses, one pink and one blue dress. OFFICIALS at the toy shop wouldn't disclose what she bought there, except that there were several toys suitable for a oy about six Prince Charles' age and OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: United Nations, N.Y.

Paul Martin said Friday there has been no change in the unity of the West as a result of the Russian-Western agreement on a Canadian disarmament resolution. The West has not abandoned its insistence on major safeguards. Experts Start To Hedge On Democratic 'Sweep' By J. R. WALKER (From Tht Herald' Washington Bureau.

Cooyriahl Southam Company Llmitedl WASHINGTON President Eisenhower's last, minute something for a little girl." ing Friday at which "ministers had the opportunity of considering the growing volume of criticism from this country and Canada of Britain's official attitude to the Canadian disaster." Death Row Escape Try Thwarted TRENTON. N.J. (AP) Five condemned murderers sawed their vay from cells in state prison early today hut were recaptured before they could get out of the death house. Warden Lloyd McCorkle said the men had been working for several weeks to weaken the bars. THEY COT THE officer In charge to go to the far end of the cells to get hot water for one of the men.

They all left their cells at once. McCorkle said, and stood guard which began several weeks ago, ii over a last-hired-first-fired dispute. Martin told a meeting of the United Nations Correspondents' As-Sea Page 2 U.S. DIPLOMATS Arthur Deakin, secretary-of the Transport and General Workers' Union, which refused to back the The westerly winds today will maintain the mild weather in Alberta and also spread the milder air east In Saskatchewan as far as Prinee Albert and Regina. Some cloudiness will move flying campaign plus the energetic work of Republican Contracts Signed MONTREAL iCP) The St.

Lawrence Seaway Authority Friday signed the first contracts for contribution of the Lachine section of the seaway. Authority president Lionel Chev-rier, speaking at the signing ceremonies, said he is "very pleased" with progress of the project and said he hopes that work programs for all five sections of the seaway will he prepared by the end of dock strike, expressed satisfaction with the settlement. "It ia very politicians everywhere seems to be worrying the "experts" just a bit. With the election only three days off most of them At Hammacher fecniemmer the Queen showed most interest in gifts for men. She bought bar accessories, cocktail glasses, a lucite tray and cut-glass pitchers.

She also bought several "neck pillows" designed to hug the neck during sleeping without disturbing a coiffure, and wound up by purchasing some Christmas decorations. "I CAN SEE that Christmas is not going to be much trouble," she told store officials after looking $1,252 Raised In Four Hours were hedging a littj on the pleasing." he said. Wheat Crop charm, broadcast so swiftly at Democratic "sweep." Those Republicans might just do better than expected, most likely in the Senate. SEVERAL FACTORS have been around the array of goods. The weekend schedule is a full this late date will really avert, what has obviously been a Democratic trend, is a difficult question to answer.

For while the campaign is growing noisier and noisier, the real worry on both sides still is whether it is interesting the voters enough to bring them to the polls. If they do get to the polls. working to give the political oh- Quality Low WINNIPEG (CP)-About 40 per one. including a visit to the United Nations, with the high spot the Columbia University convocation servers seconrl thoughts about this off-year election. the year.

THE MAIN contract signed Friday calls for excavation work in the Montreal harbor-Lachine sec President Eisenhower has at last. over the officer, Charles E. Black, 53. He was not harmed. nut hi nam rpniitafrinn nn th mtl jcent of the 1954 wheat crop will issues and the calibre of A second guard, John Colligan, days ago, at his first press con at which the Queen will receive an honorary degree.

Anti-Peron Paper Given Death Blow 55, looked down through a skylight and saw a convict sitting in the ference in 10 weeks, he had By 11 a.m. today $1,252 had been raised for victims of Hurricane Hazel by taggers in Calgary. More than 140 Calgarians reported to the Legion Memorial Hall at 8 a.m. today to sc'l tags. Nearly 100 Boy Scouts turned out as well as members of various other organizations.

ONE TAGGER collected $67 two hours. The national objective of the fund is $10,000,000. The cold weather slowed down receipts this morning, said R. I. Stirling, secretary-manager of the No.

1 branch c' the Canadian Legion, but it is hoped that donations will pick up in the afternoon. guard's chair. He called the tower local candidates will decide the elections, not the undoubted spell of the president. And on these two local issues and good candidates, mast observers here still think the Democrats have and soon 20 guards were at the seemed peculiarly unaware of what was going on in the election campaign and emphatically denied death house. BUENOS AIRES (API-Govern The men, facing riot guns, gave tion.

The work is to be carried out by a syndicate of three Ontario firms the McNamara Construction Company of Toronto, the Pi-gott Construction Company of Toronto and Hamilton and Peacock and McQuigge of Toronto. Minor contracts were also signed with consultant- engineers regarding modifications needed in bridges and works required in south shore municipalities. the vote next Teusday would be the edge. up and went back to their cells a vote of confidence in nimseit ment authorities in northern Salta province dealt a final death blow voluntarily, McCorkle said. or his administration.

This was Into Northern Alberta Sunday but in general the outlook for Sunday Is continuing sunny and mild. FORECASTS: Ca'gary and Lethbridge A few cloudy periods today. Sunny and mild Sunday. Winds west 15. Lew tonight and high Sunday 25 and 55, Edmonton and Red Deer Sunny with a few cloudy periods today.

Sunny Sunday morning clouding over during the afternoon. Milder. Winds light. Low tonight and high Sunday at Edmonton 30 and 60, at Red Deer 25 and 55. Medicine Hat Sunny and mild today and Sunday.

Winds southwest 15; Low tonight and high Sunday 25 and 55. Banff Sunny today. Cloudy Sunday. Continuing mild. Winds light today and west 15 Sunday.

Low tonight and high Sunday 25 ind 50. TEMPERATURES fAt Municipal Airport) DK. Maximum Oct. 29 53 Jwtnlmum Oct. 29 22 5.00 p.m.

Oct. 29 44 Maximum In night 44 Minimum In night 25 8:30 a.m. today 28 today 38 12 nonn 45 Av. Max Temp Oct. SO nine 1900 48 Av.

Mln Temp Oct. 30 t'nee 1900 24 Aw. Temp Oct 30 alnca 1900 36 Wind velocity W. 10 Atroort Barometer 8:30 a.m. 26.46 the reverse of what he had said Friday to the newspaper El Tran-sigente.

Its presses were expropriated and ordered sold at public Calgary Flier Missing In N.B. CHATHAM. N.B. (CP) The auction within 90 days. all summer.

But, Thursday night, he came out hands down for the entire Republican slate and claimed there would be a "hopeless jam" if the graae no. a ana 4 northern and there will be little No. 1 and 2 northern, the board of grain com missioners reported today. Protein content of No. 3 and 4 will be much the same as last year.

The report was issued following completion of milling and baking tests by the board's laboratory here on representative average samples of new wheat. IT SHOWED that the wheat's baking strength is higher than last year. Bushel weights tend to be lower than this is reflected In a lower yield of flour. "Current opinion is that no more than half will grade No. 4 northern or better," the report con tinued.

"Weathering, immaturity, frost and low bushel weight will be the principal causes for de-grading and there will be a good deal of tough and damo grain. "DESPITE TME big drop In pro-duction. Canada will hav nlmnst R.L.A.F. pilot whose Sabre jet crashed Friday in woods about 10 Shownigqn School Cose Deported Vice King In Trouble In Italy NAPLES (AP) Charles (Lucky) Luciano, deported New York vice lord, will appear before an "admonition board." Nov. 17 to show cause why his movements Should not be restricted.

Democrats win this election. He COW HAS QUADS r. LADING, Denmark (AP) Qurdruplet calves were bOi.i Friday to a cow belonging to Marius R'aribo of Vejen. Veterinary Dr. Viggo Dail said the two bulls and two heifers and their mother are made it so emphatic one would wonder how he could govern at all a Democratic Congress next year.

doing well. AND FRIOAY HE went by air Pretty Jamaican Says School Seeks Apology B.C. Youths Make Own Bombs miles south of his base here was identified at FO Edward Lavine, 23, of Calgary. A ground search party found the wreckage but no sign of the plane's single occupant. A more intensive search was planned for after daybreak.

The jet was on a routine training flight. First Aid Workers Win Coveted Honor WINNIPEG (CP) The nursine to four states where key senatorial election battles are being waged: Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Delaware. Since thte Senate is likely to be won by a seat or two either way his personal appearance and endorsement might be of great value to the beleaguer- Airport 12:30 p.m. i 26.25 Airport Normal Treclnltatlon Nil Thrill-Hungry Teeners Plan Rugged Halloween ied candidates there. i 600,000,000 bushels of good wheat from last year for home use and sale abroad.

"This wheat, which consists largely of No. 1, 2 and 3 northern is high in bushel wecht and ex cellent in milling quality." division of the Greater Winnipeg Moon Phasw New Moon Run Above Horizon Tomorrow 9 hourt, 49 minute Sunrise 7:25 a.m. Sunset 5:14 m. At a Another lactor wnicn nas loomea, seemingly the Republicans' favor in the last week or so, has hfpn the terrific energy and the corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Friday was presented with the Ritchie Trophy, in recognition nnlitics exposed by Re o' its service during the-1953 polio epidemic.

The trophy, presented for the first time, is to be awarded annually to the Canadian branch ren FURNITURE SOLD THROUGH WANT ADS taOaTMUN lOVNOAtt IDM0NT0N Mild dering outstanding service in time of suffering or disaster. Today's Index ii KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) Mrs. John Hewitt, beautiful Jamaican wife of a teacher who claims she was asked to leave a Canadian school because of her color, said Friday she had been asked to sign a statement apologizing for her allegations. Hewitt and his wife said that they were returning to Canada Tuesday, but would stay away from the Shawnigan Lake school near Victoria which he is alleged to have been asked to leave. THE FASHION MODEL.

Said she would not return to the school because she had been asked to sign a statement saying: "I appreciate the fact that various remarks and actions attributed to the school authorities throughout this unfortunate dispute were ill-considered and inaccurate." She added 'tt AM FURTHER asked express sincere regret for the harm done to the reputation and honor of the school and -all for which it Mrs. Hewitt, daughter of Noel B. Holtz. Jamaican attorney-general, commented that she was shocked by "auch a stupid DINING room drop Iwif table SIS. rnund "nil or enffoo tabid with (las top SR.

Phm I- Mrs. Hewitt said she was willing to return to the exclusive boys' school with her husband if the authorities had apologized for the treatment she had received. She left a month ago, only four days after their marriage. "INSTEAD, I am now asked to sign a statement which makes my return conditional and dependent on my declaring to falsehoods at the cost of my honor and reputation as well as tht of my husband." she said. "Such an impossible condition caused my husband' to realize thut nothing further could be done by us in the matter and he has therefore confirmed his resignation from the achool." IN VIEW of the spontaneous support they had received from the Canadian people, they would return to Vancouver in the hope of finding work and making a success of their marriage "which has started off so unhappily," he added.

Mrs. Hewitt originally complained that she had been ordered to leave the school "before the boys come hack and see a colored person here." The1 school's board of governors denied the charge. Pifje tlO DEER MIU VICTORIA (CP) The Daily Colonist says hundreds of homemade hand grenades, potent enough to kill or maim, may have been manufactured here by thrill-hungry teen-agers in preparation for Halloween. Some have been manufactured for sale. The bombs, pieces of pipe or magazines filled with home-made gunpowder, were described by Police Chief John Blackstnck as "death in small packages." IT IS REPORTED that hundreds of the deadly bombs may be in the hands of GreaterVjc-t toria school-aged children.

One such bomb is reported to have been so powerful it blew out the wall of a shack. The Colonist says it uncovered a store of the bombs which were made by a 15-year-old boy who said he was planning to sell them to friends. He save them tip when told how deadly they were. The paper says other young sters say they heard the bombs were being made for Halloween. One is quoted as saying "lots of guys at school are making them." THE HOME-MADE gunpowder is a mixture of saltpetre and sulphur bought at drugstores and charcoal, made by burning wood.

The explosive is placed in a piece of lead, zinc, copppr, iron or aluminum pipe and the ends are hammered shut. The bombs are fitted with a two-second fuse, four seconds shorter than the hand grenades used by the army. One expert said Friday night the fuse is so short that "a boy would have no more than time to light it and throw it, and where It might land or whom it might kill or injure, heaven only knows." The Colonist says one boy was almost blown to piece when he put down' a cigarette while making bombs and "the powder went up with a boom iuit the bombs didn't ignite." publican politicians as they ran really scared. In New York, one of the key states, the Dewey-Ives group of Republicans has tossed in every conceivable political issue it could find to discredit Democratic candidate Averell Harriman. including a neat technical one designed to prove he is ineligible for governorship-even if elected.

This has shaken the Democrats considerably. OUT IN THE WESTERN states, vice-president Richard Nixon has been astutely mixing up a potent political brew out of the Red issue, -while also supporting the more libera members of his party running in the election. This may well be the one method of uniting the two-wings ni the Republican party under Eisenhower This, too, has some of the opposition worried. But whether the Eisenhower lANFf Cleuay CA16ART tyeay MEDICINE HAT. The above ad was cancelled after the first insertion.

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