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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 1

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TODAY'S TIDES: High 6:30 p.m. 13.3 feet. TODAY'S SUNSET, 4:34 p.m. SUNDAY'S TIDES: Low 2:02 a.m. 1.1 feet; high 9:34 a.m.

15.4 feet; low 3:03 p.m. 10.3 feet; high 7:23 p.m. 12.5 feet. Rain today. Cloudy with showers Sunday.

Occasional tunny periods Sunday after-noon. Mild. Low tonight, 43; high Sunday, 53. KAIN FINAL NOVEMBER 13, 1954 0 TAtlow 7141 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBI 140 PAGES FOUNDED 1S86 VOL. LXIX No.

36 4' 0 mum 0 jl I 'till 'jpA o- 1 js. loaon win WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WEEKEND GLOOMY Could Open to Traffic by '58 First Narrows Bridge Company which owns the There's not much chance for a bright weekend according to the weatherman. Rain will be general along the coast today and winds are mounting in the face of a storm blowing in from the Pacific. The storm will bring cloud and showers Sunday morning but there is a possibility that the sun will occasionally break through Sunday afternoon. Temperatures will be mild.

Low tonight will be 43 degrees and a high of 53 degrees is forecast for Sunday. Lions Gate bridget said today it is prepared to build a' $17,000,000 duplicate span which could be completed by 1958. The twin to the Lions Gate bridge would be a few hundred feet east of the present span and would be directly parallel to it, says P. D. Willoughby, manager of the company.

Exact completion date would depend on the length of time required to finish negotiations with the various authorities he said. Mr. Willoughby said his com War on Dope Flares With 10 Arrests Police Flying Squad in Action; One Man Jailed for Two Years Full-scale war on Vancouver's illicit, drug trade flared today with wholesale arrests by the police flying squad set up to harry addicts blamed for mounting 'I pany will open negotiations for construction of a new span in the near future. He. revealed that Dr.

P. L. Pratley, designing engineer of the Lions Gate bridge, has been working on plans for the proposed new structure for three years. YEAR FOR TALKING The company would require permission from the provincial government, the Public Utilities Commission, National Harbors Board, city of Vancouver, city and district of North Vancouver and the municipality of West Crackdown by police pro duced arrest of 10 men overnight. In police court today one of them was sentenced to two Ouster of Vancouver before it could begin work.

Mr. Willoughby said all these years and high bail was set for others accused. The crackdown on the illpgal traffic, blamed for 70 per cent of the city's crime, began Friday and put into action the promise made by Chief Walter Mulligan that the racket would Drew Urged At Parley A call for the ousting of negotiations would have to be completed within a year if the new bridge is to be finished by Dead in Paris today is Jacques Fath, 42, one of France's leading fashion designers. AP Wire-photo. be smashed.

NEW ACTION -3 Overnight developments were: Arrest of 10 men on drug i 1A 3 "i charges. George Drew as national party leader and appointment of Saskatchewan MP John Diefen-baker in his place was made as the annual meeting of the B.C. Progressive Conservative Association opened today in Vancouver. Pat Duke, representing Oka- Sentencing of ex-convict Daniel Smith, 56, Warren Hotel, 116 West Hastings, to two years on a possession of narcotics charge. WILL YOU HELP MICHAEL WALK? 1958.

The bridge company is a subsidiary of the famous Guinness brewing, interests of England, which has extensive property holdings on the North Shore. FOURLANER Mr. Willoughby said the proposed new bridge would have a four-lane deck and be slightly larger than the Lions Gate bridge. "The completed project would have the appearance of a twin bridge," he said. The new span would be the same length as the old one.

Traffic on both bridges would be one-way at the beginning, Mr. Willoughby disclosed, but provisions would be made for two-way movement on each span if desired. SATURATION NEXT YEAR The announcement closely followed the report of the Setting of bail at $22,000 for nagan-Revelstoke at the meeting said before the parley opened he would present a resolution asking for a national convention as soon as possible the three other men picked up by the squad Friday. Pickup orders issued for two strong and sturdy like those of his twin brother in Nakusp. Mike is just one of crippled youngsters at Children's Hospital who will benefit from your contribution.

Roy LeBlanc photo. Urging you support The Vancouver Sun's eighth annual March of Dimes, which gets under way today, is nine-month-old Michael. He knows that your dimes can help straighten his crippled legs so they'll be to make the switch in leader ex-convicts in connection with the shooting of night-watchman Dan McMullen, 29, of 516 ship. Seconder of the resolution Russians Ask Meet On Europe MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government today proposed holding a conference on European security either in Moscow or Paris Nov. 29.

A Soviet note was sent to the French government today making this proposal. Copies were sent to other interested governments. Communist China was asked to send observers. The note was obviously aimed at delaying or preventing ratification of the Paris pact granting sovereignty to West Germany and granting that country the right to rearm. West Seventh, Friday morning.

was James George of Victoria. A hunt, for three known It was the latest development in the battle between B.C. Tories addicts who abandoned an auto in Burnaby this morning. Discovery of two large caches WEATHER, CROWDS CHILLY Ottawa Hails Queen Mother With 28-Degree Reception of 50 capsules each buried beneath clothesline poles in the back yards of two east end homes. FIRST SENTENCE Cold Tonight For Grid Final At Edmonton EDMONTON fCP) Long ticket queues of shivering football fans preceded tonight's Western Conference final in which below-freezing temperatures and a threat of snow might be major factors.

The game, scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Vancouver time, Burrard Inlet Crossing committee which recommended Friday that a new bridge be built at either the First or Second Narrows. Please Turn to Page Two See "Lions Gate" Discovery of a third cache of and national leaders over control of the B.C. organization and policy. The struggle came to a head at a quarterly executive meeting of the B.C.

group in Vernon July 17 when a vote of non-confidence against Drew was endorsed. B.C's three Tory MP's, Howard Green (Vancouver Quadra), George Pearkes, VC (Esquimalt-Saan-ich, and E. Davis Fulton (Kam-loops), walked out of the Vernon meeting and were absent from today's session. ning proved- that. Its just Ottawa.

82 capsules; police refused to disclose its location. It was the same silence which greeted the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1952, and the duke on his return this year. tawa's Uplands airport. As she drove into the city in a plexiglass-domed Cadillac, an estimated 5,000 persons lined the route from the airport to the governor-general's residence at Rideau Hall, but there was only an occasional faint cheer. It wasn't that the capital didn't welcome her warmly the fact that 500 waited in the chill darkness of a winter eve- By STANLEY BUEKE Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA Canada's capital gave Queen Mother Elizabeth a typical Ottawa welcome Friday a welcome that was as cool as the 28-degree weather.

When the Queen Mother stepped from the silver and blue C-5 aircraft, she was greeted with thunderous silence at Ot The same Capital Chill which Arrest of an ex-convict in connection with the armed holdup of Moran's Drug Store, 2249 Main, in which $250 was taken and a quantity of drugs overlooked. First sentence in the overnight crackdown came in Magi- Please Turn to Page Two See "War on Dope" Socreds Flop in N.Z., Nationalists Win greeted Sir Winston, Field Marshal' Montgomery and, no doubt, awaits Premier probably will be played in the coldest weather experienced this season by either of the finalists Edmonton Eskimos Police Halt Suicide Bid and the defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The cool reception and the chill weather didn't in any way diminish the radiance and Eskimos won the first game of the -three series here charm of the Queen Mother's personality. It was the same last Saturday, 9-3. Bombers forced the final game with a 12-6 victory Thursday in Win- Mather's Nightcap By BARRY MATHER What's in a name? Police had to use a strait jacket to restrain a man who attempted to commit suicide by gracious smile, the same gen-nine intprpst in nennle.

which captured Canada in 1939, she didn look a day older. slashing his face and carving the initial on his chest with a pocket knile in the washroom of a department store. The man. held on a mental She arrived dramatically. Thej 3,000 Germans OUIClde honor guard and pipe band of BERLIN (BUP) More than hei regiment, the Black Watch, had been drawn up inside a charge, is under spec'al police guard today at Vancouver General Hospital.

He is in 3,000 East Germans have committed suicide this year in the Soviet zone, the West Berlin radio station reports. giant new RCAF hangar. Also WELLINGTON, N.Z., Sunday (Reuters) Prime Minister Sidney Holland's "free enterprise" government today beat back a strong Labor party challenge at the polls to maintain control of the legislature but with a reduced majority. The Social Credit party failed to find a seat but picked up more votes than expected. The final results of Saturday's national elections gave Holland's National party 43 seats to 37 for Labor.

In the old House of National party held 50 seats to Labor's 30. The National party, which swept into office five years ago after 14 years of Labor rule, fought the election mainly on a program to abolish remaining government controls and encourage "little good condition. Police found the man bleed- inside the great vaulted building was the brilliant red-uniformed band of the Royal Canadian Regiment. The Queen Mother praised ine from the knife wounds and pounding his head against the Marble Kills Child SIMCOE, Ont. (CP) Two-year-old Richard Gasztold choked to death on a marble in the playpen.

the "miraculous growth" ol Canada in a bi-lingual speech at washroom floor. "I want to kill myself," po lice said the man kept shouting parliamentary luncheon. ipi mnniiimw nt, ii" I rX r- mm i i Cai ifi 'Mil 1 -''t Vr Xi 'in" i 'Old Boy' Churchill Listens To Harrow Lads Sing of Him people taking their name in vain, like British Fair Play. 'BRITISH AND PROUD OF IT' The idea I get from seeing that nom de plume is this, the man behind it is writing in a defiant way all same despite the fact he is British he is proud of it. Something like Tired But Happy Poor But Honest.

'ONE WHO KNOWS' This sinister, superior signature annoys me. Listen, One Who Knows, if you know so much you should know enough to be courteous enough and brave enough to sign' your own name. OLD TAXPAYER' What kind of a nom de plume is that? Who does he think he is? Old Taxpayer! He might as well have signed himself Old Eater or Old Man. In this country it is just as unique to be an Old Taxpayer as it is to be an Old Breather. 'FAITHFUL READER Reading that signature gives me the impression that he is not a reader by choice, or by interest but only because he is faithful.

He doesn't like to let down. 'SEMPER FIDELIS' To heck with you, again. Someone had a letter published recently over the signature Semper Fidelis. (Semper Fidelis Always Faithful). Thinking to have a little fun I put something in here to the effect that this Mr.

Semper Fidelis sounded like an unnaturalized Italian to me, etc. My aim was to kid nom de plumes. Yesterday someone wrote claiming I was knocking Italians. My friend, I am not anti-Iti lian. I am anti-nom de plume.

It is a prejudice with me especially certain nom de plumes. A few of the many nom de plumes I am anti: CANADIAN OF THREE GENERATIONS' My reaction to a nom de plume like that is that the man who wrote it thinks that a Canadian of three generations is better than a Canadian of two generations, or a Canadian of half a generation. If he does think so then he isn't, if you follow me. 'BRITISH FAIR PLAY' It is surely a remarkable thing that 'British Fair Play' is the only Fair Play who writes to the Vancouver papers. I never yet saw a letter from 'Scandinavian Fair Play 'French Fair Play' or 'Chinese Fair No, it is only British Fair Play.

This is- what sometimes probably gets the. British in wrong Long may you fight, sir, who fearless and eager Look back todav more than sixty years on." The boys also took advantage of "song night" to make a presentation to Churchill to 150-Foot Fall Kills Driver PENTICTON Charles W. Young, 25, of Penticton, a commercial traveller, was killed early today when his car left the Penticton-Kelowna highway and rolled 150 feet down an embankment. Mr. Young was found by RCMP lying dead beside his auto.

The accident occurred about 4 a.m. four miles north of Summerland where the old road joins the new highway. He leaves his widow, in Penticton. His parents live on Vancouver island. mark his 80th birthday on Nov, them, he still was wiping away the tears frpm his eyes.

The school song is called "Forty Years On." The verse added for the prime minister went: "Sixty years on though in time growing older, Younger at heart you return to the hill: You, who in days of defeat ever bolder Led us to victory, lead Britain still. Still there are bases to guard or beleaguer, Still must the battle for freedom be won. HARROW, England (Reuters) Sir Winston Churchill came back to Harrow, his old school, here Friday night and stood with tears in his eyes as 589 boys sang for the first time a verse which has been added to the school song in his honor. The prime minister, "most illustrious son" of the elite boys' preparatory school, dropped his head on his chest, obviously deeply moved, as the youngsters sang. And when he stepped forward to speak to 30.

He was given an inlaid cigar cabinet. During the singing of the other songs the prime minister joined in with great gusto, and there was a tremendous cheer First blood in new drug crackdown was drawn by Police Chief Walter Mulligan's new "flying squad" Friday night when detectives dug up two caches of drugs buried at the foot of clothesline behind East End homes. George Diack photo. when he waved a cheery good bye and promised "I'll be back again next year." A GOOD EVENING to everybody and especially to people who feel today is Tuesday or something. Only HOME -OWNED NEWSPAPER VANCOUVER'S.

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