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3 CLOUDY Cloudy Tues-TT CUI flCf day.rain Tuesday night. Winds light. Low tonight, 46; high Tuesday, 70. he Wi xi Inlav Finance, 10; Sports, IIIUCA. 14.

Worne( 22; Comics, 26; TV, 27; Bridge, 27; Gardens, 31; Crossword, 31; Theatres, 40. cimai noire in rcurc by carrier MUtual 4-7141 FOUNDED 1886 VOL. LXXIII No. 276 40 PAGES AUG. 31, 1959 mini, rriv.t iu i S2.00 Per Month VANCOUVER, BRITISH COUP BBs i.000 Salk Shots Stolen by Bandits Three Armed Men Rob Laboratory 7-MONTH-OLD BABY DIES IN PLASTIC SHEET A baby boy died of suffocation Sunday night when he became entangled in a plastic bedsheet: The seven-month -old boy died despite a babysitter's desperate attempt to save his life by breathing into his mouth.

Mrs. W. K. Frost, of 2150M- Oxford, told police she found the child tangled in the plastic sheet at 9 p.m., 15 minutes after she had left him sleeping in his crib. She said she saw he had stopped breathing and breathed into his mouth several times to try and revive him.

MONTREAL (CP) Seventy-five thousand doses of Salk vaccine worth $50,000 were stolen early today by three armed bandits. The raid was made on the University of Montreal laboratory in suburban Laval des Rapides. Dr. Lionel Fortier, assistant director of the univer sity institute of microbiology and hygiene, said the vaccine was to be shipped today to the provincial health department in Quebec City for distribution in the province. "The bandits were after the Salk vaccine," he said.

"But I Ike Favors Summit If Nikita Sincere Soviet Leader Must Show His Desire for Peace, Says President LONDON (UPI) President Eisenhower said tonight he favors a summit meeting if Russia's Nikita Khrushchev shows he wants peace as much as the West don't know what they'd do with it. It will be hard to sell." The men, armed with revolvers and their heads covered with nylon stockings, broke the locks on a large refrigerator filled with vaccine and escaped with the contents. The vaccine has been in short supply largely because of a run on inoculations set off hv does. Eisenhower told British Prime Minister Harold Macmil-lan during an unprecedented joint television-radio broadcast that his meetings with other Montreal's current polio epidemic. Authorities have reported 536 cases, including 29 fatal cases, since the outbreak of the epidemic seven weeks ago, but the number of fresh cases continues to decrease.

NOT AFTER MONEY The bandits overpowered night watchman Arpolis Beland while he was making his 3 a.m. check of the exterior of the laboratory, "I told them there was no money in the building," Beland told police. He quoted the bandits as replying: "We know that but money is not what we want." They locked him in a cage containing 500 rhesus monkeys which are used in the production of the vaccine. I Western statesmen have disclosed their conviction that peace is imperative. "If we are to have a summit," Eisenhower said, "Khrushchev must understand that as you and I do." "In that case," the president said, "we should have a summit that is, if Khrushchev shows he recognizes that he thinks as we do.

Then I think we should have a summit." The president and prime minister appeared before a television and radio audience of millions in Britain and in other Beland said the appearance Prince George aircraft engineer Allan West, above, and Percy Kent, 7, were killed in Interior crash. (Story, page 2). A CITIZEN OF CANADA, happy B.C. Lions fullback Byron Bailey( left) shows citizenship papers to football club president Harry Spring on courthouse steps this morning. Bailey sees action tonight against Edmonton Eskimos.

Sellout crowd is expected. (Details, page 14). George Diack photo. West European countries. Both wore tuxedos, for they were to attend a formal din-j ner afterwards, Eisenhower sat on a couch in one of the state drawing rooms of No.

10 Downing Street, official residence of i Britain's prime ministers. Mac- MISSING 23 DAYS Miss Vancouver, chosen Saturday night at PNE, is high school student Anna Finlayson, 18, of 184 West King (Story, page 21). Woman Dies Of Tar Burns NEW WESTMINSTER A Khrushchev Says World Outlook Good STORES OFFER STRIKE CREDIT PORT ALBERNI (CP) At least "two supermarkets have temporarily abandoned their no-credit policy on behalf of coast woodworkers now in their eighth week Fisherman Found Alive After Ordeal in Bush millan sat in a chair beside him. The joint appearance capped two days of private talks between the two men at Chequers, Macmillan's official country residence. "We are neighbors in a great i Maillardville woman died Sun MOSCOW (Reuters) Premier Nikita Khrushchev says of the bandits was frightening.

"My heart began to beat wildly," he said. One of the bandits noticed his condition. MIGHT COLLAPSE 'Let's go easy, he might collapse in our hands'," Eeland quoted one of the bandits as saying. "This man talked as though he knew medicine." Beland said one of the bandits returned regularly to the cage and threatened him with a blackjack. About 4:30 a.m.

the bandits left. The night watchman was unable to free himself until 6 a.m. He Immediately called police. On a preliminary investigation it appeared that only Be-land's car had been taken. Police left the premises.

Beland called them back-later when he noticed that the lock on a refrigerator containing Salk vaccine had been smashed. Dr, Adelard Groulx, city health director, said the theft would not affect two Salk clinics to be held tonight and Tuesday for about 20,000 society dedicated to peace in NATO," Eisenhower said in his ie present world situation is tnn KoH fjiln-i- it iv avnn KAMLOOPS-A 60-year-old le legged fisherman was brought to safety here Sunday after being lost for 23 days i of a strike. Managers of the two i stores which relaxed cash-and-carry policies here, one I of the hardest hit lumbering communities, said it was at the request of officials of the International Wood-! workers of America. day in Royal Columbian Hospital 16 days after being burned by boiling tar. Dead is Mrs.

Arrand Patterson of Victoria Drive, who suffered third degree burns to 80 per cent of her body Aug. 14 when she slipped' while removing the tar from the kitchen stove. The tar was being heated to effect roof repairs. thick rain-soaked bush. in slid down the side of a mountain and split his artificial right leg.

He tied the plastic limb with wire and rested for eight days until he was able to continue his struggle against the wilderness. Chappel had just eaten his last bun when rescuers spotted him. broadcast chat wit Macmuian. "In it we all are equal part- Bof)d. ners.

With all our associated The Communist party news-countries we are dedicated to i Paper Pravda prints i one single objective to mak- Prh. which was made Sun-ing ourselves more secure and 'day in the village of Veshens-peace more promising." I 600 miles south Mos- Macmillan replied that that t0 a meetin8 of collective was true, but that "many of farmers, our young people fear war." Krushchev said he going In good condition in hospital Roy Chappel, of Kamloops ho was rapidly weakening hen the crew of an RCAF search plane spotted him. During his ordeal, Chappel "The first war happened tl rnonm wim uuu uiieuuuua IWA Strike Report Filed and with the desire to contribute to relaxing international Please Turn to Page Two See "Parley" PARIS (UPI) Pierre Gomez, 34, fell In the Seine river 1 re and drowned while trying to drown his dog. police said today. EIGHT KILLED, 14 HURT i tensions.

II I I "We are determined to take Kail bird Selections such steps as couidheip to men the ice in the cold war," he said. has Mediator John AS ARCHES COLLAPSE 1-Hrrt Harvest Abrnn. Lord Itry 3 Can Stadium, Trlnl Judge. Knlhv Fin In hospital here Sunday night he reflected: "Well, I sat on this ridge and watched the rain pelt down and knew I'd have to get out all by myself, "I thought I'd make It. but I didn't know when." Chappel's ordeal began on Aug.

7, when he headed into the bush 50 miles east of here to hike to Grizzly Lake, where he was to set up a fishing camp. He reached the lake in eight days. It was pouring with rain and he couldn't do much work on the camp, so he started back. It rained steadily and he got lost. "I guess It was because of the rain and the fact I was pretty mad at the turn of events that I walked too far and missed the trail back to the plateau," he said.

"I finally got to a plateau, but It turned out to be the wrong one. "I set out to retrace my route so I could find the right trail. I kept walking and walking and soon noticed I had walked right around this Grizzly Mountain and still hadn't found the trail. "I decided the best thing to do was to go down to Scotch Creek and follow that back to the lake and start over again." Then his artificial leg split Duty Watch. Baby Bram Boy.

Bramble 3 Brucfe Jnc. 4 Flanh Bet. Rush LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) Eight persons were killed and 14 injured when concrete arches for the construction of steel furnaces at nearby Paio Pirau collapsed today. The victims were reported to haVe been working under the arches at the time of the collapse. EVANS LAKE LAND WILL BE DEVELOPED AS PARK VICTORIA Lands department officials have reserved the area around the west and north sides of Evans Lake, 11 miles north of Squamish, for eventual development as a public park.

No immediate action is planned on it, they said. "We like to hope that the United States government will be influenced by the same considerations," "It Is clear to every man with common sense that the Improvement of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States would not only benefit the Soviet and U.S. people but also the peoples of the whole world." 5 Rnnytb. Aklmnene. Hani Im Glueck.

Rrn Chai, Rim Rock. Little F.flna. 7 French Romance, Slmonatown, Nudser. Flying Flute, Smogay. Fair Reading.

Rett Bet riylng Flute, i nit i. i on rage IS.) 1 AT completed his recommendations for settlement of the forest Industry strike, It was reported today. The mediator handed the report to bor Minister yle Wicks Sunday and left for Toronto. There Is no official Indication of what terms he has proposed. But it is known he was considering a 20-cent raise spread over two years, with 10 cents this year and 10 cents In 1960.

Present base rate Is $1.72 an hour for the 27,000 workers Involved. His action came on the last day of the 14-day period he was given by the provincial government In which to bring down his recommendations. $50,000,000 Loans Set LISBON (UPI) The government has authorized loans totalling more than $50,000,000 for the modernization of Portugal's merchant fleet and fishing Industry. The trouble about bcine an absentminded beggar like me is that aside from losing your clothes you have to go around without them. I'm now not allowed to wear a nat, or gloves.

My wife won't let me. She won't let me because she believes and he had to bind it with wire. He slipped and skinned his good knee. "It hurt so much I couldn't I'll only lose them again. According to her I lost four hats and seven pairs of gloves before she stopped letting me have them.

(It was only five pairs). Pirate Turn to Pane Two See "Ordeal" We have had, for tome CALCUTTA POLICE IN stop me wearing coats. I've lost tour raincoats and two Floater Policy Companies. But the weather sometimes being what It Is, she has to choose between risking losing my coats or losing me. She lets me wear a coat, but has printed In large.

blue-Ink letters on my coat, my name, address and phone number. "How's about working In an ad for the paper?" 1 asked. "Phone MU 4-7141 for home delivery "He will lose anything that Isn't tied on to htm," she says. Bo I can still wear shoes. A GOOD EVENING to everybody and especially to people on TV who have a feeling that they're being watched.

BATTLE WITH RED MOBS -H Hl years, a little game at our place which starts with my wife saying: "Where do you last remember having I'd like to be able to reply: "In the vestry of the United Church" "In the Canadian Bank of Commerce." There would be gome merit In mislaying your things In those placet. But the fact is that I laat remember seeing what proved to be my last pair of gloves In the Jousting Room. CALCUTTA, India (UPI) Police fought pitched battles with Communist-led mobs throughout Calcutta today. Many policemen were reported injured as the rioters hurled brickbati. Several tear gas charges by police only served to infuriate the mob.

Government offices and other key points were placed under armed protection. 1 1 121 Daughter son Sergit, 30, THE FAMILY'S COMING, TOO, whan Sovlst Pra-mler Nikita Khrushchev (second Irom left visits U.S. next month. His wll Nadeihda, Ult, raised his lour HttktfM altar first wilt died in Julia, second irom right, Is about right, about 24, AP Wirephoto. My wife would also like to.

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