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TODAY'S TIDES: High 2:32 a.m., 14.2 feet; low 8:58 a.m., 9.5 feet; high 12:31 p.m., 10.0 feet; low 7:50 p.m., 4.1 feet. WEATHER: Rain today; showery Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Overnight low, 44; high today, 55. High end low Wednesday, 56 and 42.

RAIN FOUNDED 1886 VOL. LXIV No. 160a MArine 1161 FINAL 28 PAGES VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1950 Backd PDaim Charges Mew Hospital Plan Setup HbK a I art Soviet IFiohffeirs Victoria Reports Reorganization; Winnipeg Expert Hired By Sun Staff Reporter VICTORIA, April 11. A full-scale reorganization of he administrative handling of British Columbia's compul- lory hospital insurance service under the new commissioner, loyd F. Detwiller, was announced here today.

The reshuffle is the result ofT" of taonths of work by Mr. Detwiller lnd James Hamilton and associ- tes who surveyed the mess the Americans Deny Knowing of 'Battle1 i By Associated Press April 11. Russia charged today that a United States military plane opened fire three days ago on a flight of Soviet fighters over Latvia, and said one of the Soviet planes fired back. A Soviet protest, lodged with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, identified the plane as a B-29 bomber, but U.S.

Air Force headquarters at Wiesbaden, Germany, said the plane in question may have been a missing, navy aircraft sought since Saturday in the northern Baltic. Air force officials said this plane, a navy version of the B-24 bomber, was not armed. One Dead as Car Rolls Off Road scheme got into last year. Changes in the Insurance Act it the last session will help put into effect. Chief of the top line changes Js the appointment of Donald M.

iCox. secretary and manager of VictiM-to-Be Gives Gunmen Slip, Escapes "This is it. You've had it." Those six words galvanize quick thinking Vancouver sportsman Harry Weidman into action when he faced two gunmen on his back doorstep at his Dunbar home at 10:30 a.m. today. In a split second he had slammed the door (lucked and run through his own house at 3231 West Thirteenth, across the lawn and into the home of his neighbor, where he telephoned for police.

The gunmen fled empty-handed to a waiting car and made their getaway. "PROFESSIONAL" JOB Three men made up the gang that attempted the robbery. Execution of their ylan was so smooth and quick that it is believed that they are recognized "professionels." Jhe Winnipeg Municipal Hospital, Special to The Vancouver Sun ro De assistant lu Mr. Detwiller. TO CUT DOWN COSTS Mr.

Cox, a well-known hospital This plane had 10 men aboard expert, will have charge ot tne hospital services side of the scheme, and his important func when it disappeared on a round- SEARCH 'BUND' HOPE, April 11. One man was killed and another injured today when their car rolled from the Hope-Princeton highway about five miles east of here and plunged 100 feet over the bank. Dead, according to identification at Chilliwack General Hospital, is Alfred Wolf, about 40, described as the owner of a hotel at Rock Creek in the Boundary country. In "fair" condition at the hospital, according to Dr. R.

D. Morrison, is Jack Gordon Smart, tion will be to help hospital trip flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Wiesbaden, Germany. Called the Privateer, it had four engines like the B-29. U.S. planes have been searching for it since Saturday.

U.S. officials in Washington disclaimed any knowledge of an aerial gunfire exchange. But they ordered an immediate investigation after receiving the Soviet protest. The State Department declined Danes Hint (AS. Spying Orr Red Navy COPENHAGEN, Denmark, rancher, of Rock Creek.

The accident occurred near the "suicide corner" on the 'super boards cut down their operating costs and, through this, the unit costs which the government scheme pays for hospital care. Other important announcements in the change over include: A new two-storey building for insurance headquarters wil be started immediately in Victoria, to be ready by November. This is designed to eliminate inefficiency caused by the fact that the service has beenoperat-ing in various temporary offices scattered about the town. OWN TABULATION BUREAU The insurance service will set highway" which has claimed several victims. Mr.

Wolf was on his way to April 11 (Reuters) Official American sources here would "It was a bare-faced attempt and it showed that they had complete confidence in themselves," Mr. Weidman told reporters afterwards. "They came ud the back steos Vancouver to see his wife, and any comment except to say that the Russian protest was the first information it had received and that an inquiry is under way to determine what the facts are. had relieved Mr. Smart at the wheel at Princeton because looking like two well-dressed salesmen.

Each of them had a Smart had driven through the night, it is understood here. SHOOTING IN LATVIA make no comment today on Danish suggestions that the large-scale American air search for a missing bomber was a move in the cold war to observe the Russian fleet, known to be exercising in the Baltic. Skier Brought Here by Rescue Crew MERCY TRIP by toboggan and launch brought injured Vancouver skier Otto Landauer to hospital here Monday after he had suffered fractured leg at Mount Garibaldi. He was taken down to Squamish by rescue party in a difficult, eight-hour trip. BROKE LEG ON MOUNT GARIBALDI bnelcase under his arm.

Smart is suffering from head The Russians reported the "The shorter onp pulled out a injuries, but is conscious. shooting took place roughly 350 He told rescuers he was sleep mues east ol Copenhagen. They pact ana pencil as if he were going to ask.me some questions. "I had opened the back door, gave tne site as Lepava (Libau) ing when the car swerved from the road, and heard Wolf yell at but there was still the screen on the Baltic Sea, and said the plane penetrated about 13 miles into Latvia, which is regarded by door between me and them. "Then, the other one, who was him to duck.

He awoke to find himself lying in the car at the bottom of a gully below the highway. up its own mechanical tabulation branch, with its own machines. Up to now the tabulation of hundreds of thousands of payments has been handled by the Statistics Branch and this was blamed for delays which took place last year. There will be a gradual change over from the system of having separate district offices operated by the Insurance Service to a Dlan of having collections in out Moscow as Soviet tenrtory. about six feet reached inside foreign Minister Andrei Y.

his overcoat without savine a word and pulled out the bieeest Dramatic 56-Hr. Rescue Gets Injured Skier to Hospital black automatic I've ever seen. Vishinsky, in his protest to U.S Ambassador Alan Kirk, denounc. ed the incident as a gross violation of the Soviet frontier and Then, the other one said to me, 'This is it. You've had it'." "an unheard of violation of the elementary rules of international WIRES NOT CUT But at Wiesbaden, Germany, Cannon, commander of the U.S.

Air Force in Europe, termed such Danish claims as "fantastic." He said the sole objective of the search is to locate the missing plane and rescue the missing personnel. He noted that both Denmark and Norway are members with the U.S. in the North Atlantic Pact as such collaborate with other countries in mutual defense. "It is far-fetched to think we'd use a search scheme for a survey of Scandinavia." More than 20 American aircraft and 250 airmen arrived during the weekend at Katstrup Airport, near Copenhagen, which they are using as a base for the search for a four-engined American Mr. Weidman said that the! law." phere an RCAF helicopter piloted Fifty-six hours after he broke1 by Hugh Campbell failed first think that flashed through his leg in a skiing accident high Tass gave the text of the note as follows: lying districts handled by other government agencies.

Some district offices will be maintained, but several will be "closed to save overhead. PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS after several risky attempts to nis mino wa sthat his phone wires would have been cut. It up on Mount Garibaldi, Otto F. Landauer reached St. Paul's Hos- The 46-year-old proprietor of Leonard Frank Photos, an expert skier, was injured as he neared Diamond Head Lodge at 5 p.m.

Saturday. He did not reach hospital until 1 a.m. today. Because of rarified atmos- pluck Landauer from the moun tainside Sunday morning. "The government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics turned out later that this was not gital ending a dramatic rescue id by helicopter, toboggan, Dr.

L. C. Kindree of Squamish so. deems it necessary to state to hiked into the scene the same However, it was on this ac the government of the United truck and speedboat. States of America the following count that he ran directly to tlv day and put a cast on the skier's leg and a party of 25 holidayers at the lodge brought him down "According to verified data, on Family Aids Ex-Convict; Jewels Gone An Easter kindness to an ex-convict backfired on a Burnaby family today.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Cruth-ers, 2052 Randolph, Burnaby, put ofrth a helping hand to the elderly man Good Friday, several hours after he was released from Oakalla. This morning, provincial police took their house guest into custody after the Cruthers found that a $1200 diamond ring, $250 cash, two watches, an antique cameo brooch, and several other things were missing.

Complusory payroll deductions for premium payments will be worked out this summer, but in the meantime all employees are asked to continue their present PUBLIC INTEREST HEAVY April 8 of this year, at 17 hours, nome 01 nis neignoor, Charier. Brown, 3239 West Thirtieth. 'They didn't miss much, the the mountain in a harrowing, eight-hour toboggan trip, near-victim said. "I onlv had S58 methods. wnn me ana tnere have been lots Landauer was then transferred to a light truck which took him over a bumpy logging road to Squamish where a speedboat d9 minutes south of Libau, a four-en gined military plane of the B-29 type, a.Flying Fortress, bearing American identification marks, was sighted.

"The plane penetrated the territory of the Soviet Union to a distance of 21 kilometers. If they have been making payroll deductions voluntarily they have been requested to carry on of times when I had more than that." until compulsory deductions are waited to complete the rescue, 1000 Liquor Letters Pour In to Wismer By Sun Staff Reporter VICTORIA, April 11. Attorney-General Gordon Wis- Resting today in hospital, the put into force. Gradually a system of stag' Imperial Buys photographer told of the ordeal. RFTva wftnT w4rir "Wo hoA luct rinum fmm OIWU1 BatR "Owing to the fact that the gereddates for paying premiums by people who pay direct not through payroll deductions will DomDer missing witn lu men aboard since Saturday on a flight from Wiesbaden, Germany.

The search has started many rumors in Denmark which resolve themselves into two principal theories: 1 That the Americans produced a "missing plane" as an excuse to search the Baltic. 2 That the Americans are testing the feasability of "occupying" a country in this Instance, Denmark under an apparently peaceful pretext. No reports of the rumors have thus far appeared in Danish newspapers. In Stockholm, Sweden, observ American plane continued to penetrate into Soviet territory, a be worked out. Thus instead of Two Million Alberta Acres mer's mailbaer is bulging with letters from the public on the mgnt oi soviet lighters took off having two or four peak periods liquor question, but he hasn't got down yet to tabulating from a nearby airdrome and de of collection each year, with the China Quits Seattle SEATTLE, April 11 (AP) Consul K.

P. Tsao announced today that lack of funds has forced the pros and cons on the issue, manded that the American plane follow it and land at the Special to The Vancouver Sun The controversy was started. consequent overloading of work, the collections will proceed steadily throughout the year. WILL "ADVISE" HOSPITALS by The Vancouver Sun's Jack CALGARY, April 11. Imperial the summit of Diamond Head, which is about, 8000 feet high, and were only about 10 minutes away from the lodge when my ski broke through a frozen spot in the snow and caught.

"It would not hr.ve been so bad if I hadn't had a heavy rucksack on back with photographic equipment I went down and broke my left leg. "I have skiied for 30 years and this is my first accident. It was just one of those things." Five other skiiers were with Landauer when he was hurt. "The American plane not only the Nationalist government of China to order its Seattle consu Monday Night 'Warmest' late closed April 30. failed to comply with this demand but opened fire on the Soviet planes.

uu umuea, rne company that started the present Prairie oil boom, has taken up an additional two million acres of land in Announcement of the major changes was made by acting ers searching for the plane today HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (AP) "Owing to this, an advanced Health and Welfare Minister E. T. Kenney and Mr. Detwiller sup. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have patched up their differences Northern Alberta, in one of the largest land acquisitions on record.

The land stretches from 180 plied the details of the new or Soviet fighter was forced to open fire in reply, after wh'ch the American plane turned towards the sea and disappeared. with Universal-International. The Vancouver had its warmest night this month last night. The mercury never dropped below 44 ganization. One of the big tasks will fall miles north of Imperial's Nor.

studio announced Monday a contract adjustment has been made, mandville discovery in the Peace River area to the Drovince's and the comics will return to the the Soviet government announces its resolute protest to the government of the United States Please Turn to Page Two See "Hospitals" spoted a white object and two oil streaks half a mile off Laangloet, on the eastern coast of Oeland to the southeast of Sweden They said the object might have been a fishing boat, an aircraft wing, or something similar. The crew of a Swedish aircraft which went out to make a closer observation could not find the oil streaks but it was thought possible the object may have drifted northwards. cameras this month. northern limits, and brings the against this gross violation of the Scott, who told why he thought the liquor laws should be reformed and invited people to clip his column and send it in to Mr. Wismer if they agreed.

Mr. Wismer replied as a guest columnist for Scott as to why he didn't think there should be changes and invited a similar response. The number of letters received so far by the Attorney-General's office has well exceeded the 1000 mark and the Easter weekend mail which came in today contained another big batch. "I haven't had them sorted out yet to see which way the trend is going," Mr. Wismer said today.

"When the rush stops I'll have it done." The letter-writing stunt recalled a similar one on oleomargarine which The Sun's "Pennywise" started last year. company holdings to between eight and nine million acres. boviet frontier by an American military plane, which at the same time constitutes an unheard of Ex-Red Editor McCarthy's 'Mystery Man' WASHINGTON, April 11- degrees. It began climbing in the early hours today and the Weatherman expects it to reach a high of 55, compared with Monday's high of 52. But he doesn't expect the sun to shine much for the next day or two.

He perdicts intermittent rain for today and showers for Wednesday. Industry officials disclose that the two million acres is the largest land mass ever taken in a violation of the elementary rules of international law." Mather's Nightcap By BARRY MATHER The recent Scott-Wismer liquor question columns, in which white space was left at the end of the columns for readers to write THEIR opinions, have produced a wave of single move Alberta's history, OIL RESERVOIR They point out, too, that this (AP) Ex-Communist Louis Bud- indicates tne company is sure public interest, mat tne nuge oil reservoir around Leduc and Redwater must stretch-northward through the same sedimentary basin to the Arctic Ocean. It is reported that white-space U.S. Gives Thailand $10 Million in Arms By Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand, April 11. The United States has More than 3000 letters in favor Gale Delays Liner SOUTHAMPTON, England, April 11 (AP) Heavy Atlantic gales have delayed the luxury liner Queen Mary at least 12 hours on her voyage from New York, of margarine sale hit the Attorney-General's desk and was followed a short time later by repeal of the ban against margarine sale.

enz was subpoenaed today as the "mystery witness" Sen. McCarthy wants Senate investigators to hear on his charges against Owen Lattimore. A senate foreign relations subcommittee ordered' Budenz to appear at a public session next Monday. The committee is looking into McCarthy's accusations that Lattimore is a Soviet espionage agent. Budenz is former managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker.

He renounced Com granted $10,000,000 worth of arms and other military aid to Thailand to fight Communism, Premier Pibul Songgram The new holdings will be subjected first to geological investigation followed later by geophysical operations. STARTED BIG RUSH Imperial, largest of Canada's oil companies, spent $23 million prior to 1947 trying to find oil outside Turner Valley. That year they were successful and brought in the first well at Leduc near Edmonton. This started the whole oil rush This was the first concrete China Creek Mother Braves Fire, Rescues Baby Girl manifestation of decisions reach' ed at the Bangkok conference in February. Philip C.

Jessup, U.S. Ambas- sador-at-large, set forth the Amer and since then millions of barrels of oil have been located in such speed that refining and distribut An heroic expectant mother saved her two-year-old Reclamation Ordered China Creek will be reclaimed. City Council agreed today to munism and returned to the Catholic church. baby daughter from perishing in their smoke-filled, burning ing uapacuies nave Deen unaoie to keep up. house at 10:30 a.m.

today. Chairman Tydings ed the ship Half speed which brought the first American columnists from the British Isles to Virginia in 1606. Recently, however, noted Bombay historian, Radindranath O'Reilly, has disputed Goson-aid's claim to this historic distinction. In your opinion is O'Reilly on sound grounds? If so, or if not so, why or why not? State your opinions in detail. ANSWER: (4) Croatia was part of the banovina of Savska, from 1868 until 1914.

However this has little to do with the. present question Fashion experts say women will soon be wearing higher skirts (some claim skirts will be $2 higher). In the answer space state: (a) Two good reasons, other than legs, for or against this, (b) Give your reasons for opposing capital punishment of fashion experts. ANSWER: (5) Students of the palaezoic era are divided on the relative sociological significance of the Silurian and Ordovician periods some holding that Russia discovered geology and others that geology discovered Russia. Explain, citing sources of reference, the importance of this issue to highway construction in British Columbia.

ANSWER: told reporters Dudenz is the writing has replaced canasta in Kerrisdale and poker in Williams Lake. An avid white-space writer in Port Alberni convulsed his friends over the weekend by saying: "All I know is what I write in the papers." So far, regrettably, white space columnists have been confined to the one, low subject raised by Scott and Wismer liquor. With this in mind we offer herewith a new, improved white-space column. Our white-space permits readers to write not just on one crude question but on several advanced issues. Like this: (1) Some British philosophers have asserted that existentialism (in its neo-Gothic aspects) is only another manifestation of intellectual authoritarianism.

In the white-space provided below explain how you feel about this. Write clearly, using block letters: ANSWER: (2) What is your opinion of the Inner Mongolian collectivist program as applied to window-box cultivation of insidious tree fruits and its likely effects on Mid-Western U.S. support of the Atlantic Pact? Explain your views comprehensively in the answer space, giving two references from former employers. Mrs. Thelma McPherson, 25, ol Imperial new acquisition mav ican position there by giving military assistance to Asian countries displaying the will to stand against the Communist tide.

Under Songgram's leadership, the tiny iKngdom of Thailand has taken its place alongside democratic powers in the cold war against Communism. But the war is more hot than 7204 Duff, dashed upstairs to the mean a iurther boost to the oil negotiate with the Great North "mystery witness" that McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, contends can swear that Lattimore crib where her baby daughter Ship Blows Up; 30 Men Safe NEW YORK, April 11 (BUP) searcn in tfritisn (joiumnia, as the land parallels that province's is or has been a Communist feace Kiver area. i party member. Lattimore, Johns Hopkins Uni cold in Southeast Asia, which lies athwart Communist China and versity professor, and some time consultant to the State De itself is riddled with Reds. ern Railway for the property, which will be filled in and used as a park for the Mount Pleasant district.

Money for the project, cost of which has been estimated at $115,000, will come from funds allocated to Board of Works sewer construction. Decision to negotiate for purchase of the property came after submissions by a delegation representing the Mount Pleasant A Norwkegian freighter was rocked by an explosion 680 miles southeast of- St. John's, Newfoundland today and her crew of approximately 30 men rescued Family Escapes Williams Lake Fire Special to The Vanoouver Sun The premier successfully fought for recognition of Bao Dai's partment, has denied under oath that he has ever been a Communist. He has called Mc French-supported regime In Indo Carthy an unmitigated liar for China. The Western Powers have Cathleen, was sleeping when nei home caught fire.

She snatched the sleeping baby in her arms and carried her through blinding smoke to safety. Mrs. McPherson is expecting another baby in June. The family occupied the upper storey of the house, which is owned by Mr. and Mrs.

John Crawford, who live on the lower floor. Walls of the house were still standing when firemen quelled the blaze, but the interior was entirely gutted with the exception of the living room on the ground floor. Onlv a few scorched personal nteooats. One Coastguard cutter and a number of merchant ships raced WILLIAMS LAKE, April 11. James Kelly, his wife and two making the charge.

lined up for Bao Dai, while the Communist bloc supports the opposing regime of Ho Chi-Minh, to the scene within minutes after Community Planning Moscow-trained Ked. children barely escaped with their lives on Good Friday when flames completely destroyed their ranch home The family lived in the famous the 5113-ton Geisha flashed word of its plight by radio. Its radio said: on board. Need help. We are going into the lifeboats." old Salmon Ranch, six miles west Indian Girl Found Dead on Shoreline POWELL RIVER, April 11 (CP) Provincial Police are investigating finding of the body of an Indian girl, Fanny Adams, on the beach near the Sliamon Indian Reserve in this area.

Chris Spencer Laid Up Chris Spencer, who will be 82 next month, is a patient at General Hospital, and making satis oi soaa creek. The fire, of unknown oriein. Artist Dies What! No 'Bunny? CINCINNATI April ll-i(AP) Triplets born Easter Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Purcell Gaines Jr.

have been named Easter, Ester and Estille. effects were saved from the fire swept through the old building so fast that the Kelly family SEATTLE, April 11 (AP) ANSWER: (3) The explorer Bartholo- A GOOD EVENING to every- mew Gosonald is commonly body, especially all white-space credited with having command-, column writers. factory progress. His physician has. ordered absolute rest and by both families.

It is believed the fire started in the kitchen on the main floor. JNeai ordayne, 60, portrait artist, were unable to save even cloth ing and persopal effects. quiet for the next week or two died alter a long illness Give-Give Cenerously-To YWCA's 'Once in a Lifetime' Appeal.