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

ahe WEATHER: Clear and Sunday. Low tonight 54; high Sunday 70. TODAY'S TIDES: High 1.47 am. 12.1 feet; low 9.57 a.m. 28 feet; high 5:40 p.m.

14.3 feet; low 11:13 p.m. 10.6 feet. SUNDAY'S TIDES: High 2:15 a.m. 11.7 feet; low 10:48 a.m. 2.9 feet; high 6:15 p.m.

14.4 feet; low 11:55 p.m. 9.7 feet. All times daylight saving. CUM FOUNDED 1886 MArine 1161 ick PRICE 10 CENTS BY CARRIER S1.00 Per Montb 68 PAGES JRDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1949 VANCOUVER, BRITISH VOL LXIII No. 268 Hide yesith Fiery- Ion irashiim $1 Million Six U.S.

Crewmen U.S. Ticket Jump to Safety S. i -V, i f- 1 1 i A 6 SOUPED-UP PLANES OFF IN BENDIX RACE ROSAMOND DRY LAKE, Sept. 3 (BUP) Six souped-up speed planes took off today and headed into the rising sun as their pilots strained to capture the 15th Bendix Trophy race to Cleveland. Five contestants roared eastward on this natural airfield at 6:30 a.m., and the sixth, Vince Perron, waited four minutes to be sure his AT-12 Guardsman was sufficiently warmed up for the gruelling dash.

Labor Day Border FAIRFIELD-SUISUN AIR BASE. Sent. Trade Ends (BUP) An Air Force pilot and co-Dilot rode thpir C.82 Flying Boxcar to a flamine death while their six crewmen parachuted to safety before the plane crashed and burned, the Air Force reported today. Tax-Free Transportation Finished Search parties found the six survivors nenr the crash scene two miles north of Collinsville, Cal. In the charred wreckage they found the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot and brought them here.

Their names were withheld The two-engined packet plane! Gas Station nnuiuii-uur, attached to the 37th Tronn lar-a-month mail order busi- Carrier Squadron based at Green-1 ness in tax-free U.S. trans-1'6- I portation tickets is finished, night while the plane was on a DylQW VJUGS Snarl-Up Averted Canadian, U.S. Customs Men Say Facilities Can Handle Rush of Cars Canadian and American customs officials expressed confidence today there will be no tieup at the border over The United States onvornment Ilieht from Tiwrv Air Rato To Appeal ruled Friday that the 15 percent Denver to Alameda, Naval Air Station. tax on trantportation. lifted In Thoge who wpre Canada on March 23, applies engineer, the radio onera- the holiday weekend.

to funds sent to Canada or Mexico for the purchase of rail, plane and bus fares. For almost, six months, requests for tickets by mail order have been flooding into Vancouver by air line and travel agency offices from Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and tor and four passengers. They were TSgt. Charles W. Sturrii-vant, and TSgt.

Kenneth R. Carlson, both of the 37th Troop Carrier Command; Lt. Col. Robert Horton, Barksdale Field, Capt. Horace Deston, ROTC, Denver; Lt.

Roy W. Chamber-lin, Eglin Field, and TSgt. Fortune Left In Dead Man's Deposit Box The plan to reroute all busses through the Pacific Highway port of entry Is expected to take the usual last-minute rush of holidayers from the Douglas-Blaine station. The big exodus ot Canadian motorists has already started. Cars began flowing through Honolulu.

ncnnein oiorno, aaaress un- United Airlines alone have been known. booking $700,000 monthly in Mirhfl.pl "VTflnnv" Stprn nrnm. Douglas at a steppedup rate ft i The city is appealing a police court judgement against the early closing bylaw for gas service stations. The appeal, first of its kind for several years, will be made in County Court and will come up September 12, when a date will be set. Stewart McMorran, assistant city prosecutor, filed notice of appeal at the Court House Friday.

The appeal is against a police court judgment of Magistrate Oscar Orr, who dismised a charge under the bylaw against Lucas Motors. Magistrate Orr called the bylaw "defective." Charge against the motor firm was for keeping the service station open after 7 p.m. Magistrate Orr said the city bylaw was defective in that it did not clearly provide all the regulations for hours of opening and closine of sprvioe eta. Friday afternoon and were roll- inent racetrack fieure who fell to Air Force officials disclosed that the crash occurred at 10:48 p.m., PST, a short time after the pilot reported one of his two engines had failed. officials Reported moinlnS' his death out of a Georgia Hotel only t0 New York in ticket selling window Friday, left a small voluma.

LONGER HOURS fnrtnnp in his hnip ftv Hennsir! From U.S. Revenue officials fortune in his hotel safetv deoosii. From U.S. Revenue oinciaisi PNE Dog Show Opens With Howl PUSHED BY PAW of Butch, 15-month-old Great Dane, little Joan Hildebrand, 20 East Twenty-sixth, opened PNE dog show with a howl Friday. Oversized Butch is entry of Joan's parents in the show.

Visitors were given chance to see canine aristocrats of all breeds at the show, which continues today and Monday. RECORD CROWDS EXPECTED Weather Favors Fairgoers In Exhibition's Last Days The six survivnr Meanwhile, efforts are being hv land local travel experts, this isieri in be made in Ottawa to have the U.S what the ruling means: fering only minor scrapes, government open their offices at I asn' 0 0 1 1 It is no longer possible for' bruises and shock, the Pacific Highway 16 hours a between $10,000 and werei I ug resjdents t0 send money Scene of tne crash wu day. seven days a wepk. The! found by Detectives Archie Pom-; bv mail order to Canada or marsh land just to the north of office now closes from Saturday mpr and Ian McGregor when theyj Mexico to buy tickets for, the Sacramento River. The first afternoon until Monday openeA his safptv deposit box.

i iourneys between two US des- report, of the accident came from ing iwou a rllrj tinations and save 13 percent on the Fairfield Suisun control Hp' the wav the weekend rency, 'hich RCMP said they! fh(ir fares. nunu itilamk-'i seize providing it ft; 2-AIthough it is not illegal for plan to avert a tieup wiu worK. mnnev fnr Americans to send money for tower, which reported a violent i tions, and which one might re-explosion had been seen to Ppn late, south of the base. I ATTENDANCE 194P 1948 Friday 49,965 63,823 Total to Date 477,164 462,975 Soon thereafter the All busses must enter ana re-1 turn from the U.S. via Pacific and $6300 in Canadian currency.

Thi. They also found a diamond wreckage was sighted from the Yugoslav-Red air by the pilot of an airliner free to: studded bracelet and a ticket purchases, it is illegal for the seller to supply them. US tourists will still be able to buy transportation tickets tax free when they are actually: studded watch, believed to bei ana ty a B-29 Super-Fortress erew, handle private cars, '1 The west's biggest fair prepared Itself for Its biggest Meanwhile, in Anchoraee. Al. in Canada.

Canadian Customs at Pacific Highway will be open from 8 a.m. to midnight on Monday. crowds. i Pacific National Exhibition of has two days of life left, -Canadians will still riot payiasKa- ium Air Kescue bquad- VANCOUVER SUN STAFF TO OBSERVE LABOR DAY The Vancouver Sun will not publish on Monday, Labor Day. The Sun staff will observe the holiday with other members of the community.

News developments, however, will be reported on Sun news broadcasts, over the following stations at those times i CKWX, 12 noon and 10 p.m.; CKMO, 7:45 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; CKNW, 10 p.m. The U.S. port will be closed in the 15 percent tax on tickets ron recovered the bodies of seven men who died when their C-47 transport plane crashed into shallow water off Fire Island in purchased in Canadian funds for worth tihousands of dollars. In stocks were 19,000 shares of: Red Cloud mining certificates, of no listed value, and 600 shares of Reeves McDonald zinc certificates, currently worth $1410.

Two partnership agreements were found. In addition, in his room, police found $75 in cash, cheques totalling $2703, a $2400 chattel mortgage, and a $10 war savings the afternoon, oui returning Canadians may pick up their car registrations at the Canadian office. STRIKE FACTOR If the North Coast Lines bus journeys starting in Canada, or for trips between two US points, if paid for in US In effect, the ruling means that Canadians will travel for 15 percent less on American transportation than the natives can. Cook Inlet. Officers at Elmendorf said there was "no apparent reason for the crash." The plane was based at the Alaska Air Depot at Elmendorf Field.

It crashed 15 minutes after taking off from the airport Friday. strike ends before Monday, the Companies Dissolved BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 3 (BUP) The Yugoslav government has ousted Russia as a partner in joint Danube shipping and civil aviation companies, it was announced today. The announcement said the Yugoslavia-Soviet Danube Navigation Co.s(YUSPAD) and the Yugoslav-Soviet Civil Aviation Co. (YUSTA) have been closed down.

These two companies, set up in a February, 1947, agreement, were the only two companies Yugoslavia jointly operated with Russia. It was believed the Russians held 51 percent of th today and the holiday Monday, and both are expected to break record. The weather is with the air-goer all the way. It will be fine and warm today, Sunday, and in all probability Monday too, says the weather bureau. "We are in the middle of one of those long spells of fine weather," the forecaster carolled today.

"There's a high pressure area over the province that deflects all storms up into Alaska." Attendance was down about 4000 Friday in comparison with U.S. station will stay open longer to handle the traffic, Pat Doyle, chief U.S. customs officer at Blaine, said today. So far, though, there is no end to the strike in sight. Washington State Governor Arthur B.

Dewey Calls Troopers to Guard Robeson Langlie had ordered the men back to work this morning, but Critically III U.S. Justice 'Improved7 the same day of 1948, but the! greater ms eaict was apparently ignuitu over-au figure is still than last year's. SPREADING Blasting Sets Fire In Woods Soecial to The Vancouver Sun HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, Sept. 3. Fire which reportedly spread from blasting operations has flashed through 10 acres of ny tne qnveis.

Gl 'Worse Traitor' Than Tokyo Rose U.S. Charges Handsome Soldier With Aiding Japs at Corregidor NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (BUP) Justice Department officials charged a handsome California army veteran today with being a "worse traitor than Tokyo Rose." ALBANY, N.Y., Sept, 3 (BUP) Douglas will oe open nours So far almost half a million stock, a pattern followed through- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today citizens of B.C.

have swarmed, a day and, according to Andrew ordered all available New York! through the gates of Exhibition i Westland, collector in charge of Canadian Customs at Pacific YORK, Sept. 3 (BUP) A slight improvement in the condition of Supreme Court Justice Park, shepherded by a staff of hard-working, cheerful police vui jasiern Europe. An agreement liquidating the companies was signed August 31 State Police to be at Peekskill Sunday to prevent violence at. the scheduled concert by Negro singer Paul Robeson. Highway, will be able to handle the rush of home-coming Canadians.

OTTAWA CHECK-UP S. G. Oeilvie, who came here wuey a. was reported and went into effPrimmoSi.7i.. today at York Hospital, Wre the TonTsZT LVrfitL1Cally 111 mth a cardiac I routes affected included Buch condition.

I rest-Belgrade, Budapest-Belgrade- "Justice Rutledge is still in a and Belerade-Lwow men irom tne city traiiic department. The fair has had fine weather, no major accidents, cautious spending on the midway, keen interest in top exhibits and the Dewey acted at the request of timberland near here and is i Sheriff Fred W. Roscoe of West- U.S. Attorney John F. X.

Mc coma out his general condition Foreign reports meanwhile t. from Ottawa last, week to investigate the Julv 1 tie-up and make special assistance in preserving is somewhat improved," thedicated that tm Outdoor Stage, and packed houses in the popular Shrine morning bulletin read. recommendations on the site of a new building at Douglas, will Hospital authorities still re recommend to his uttawa super radio, which has been attempting to stir up civil war against Marshal Tito's regime, has been located somewhere in the vicinity of the Rumanian capital of garded the 55-year-old justice's condition as "very grave." Rut- uircus. There are more livestock, more exhibits, more acts in the circus and, officials believe now, there will be more people to see them. iors that next year all busses and commercial vehicles travel Gohey said Sgt.

John Provoo, 33, of San Francisco, already has made "a number of admissions" concerning charges that during the war he voluntarily assisted the Japanese. The six-foot two-inch red-head was arrested by FBI agents Friday when he received his discharge at Governor's Island after eight years of military service. Blue Skies For Holiday The stage is set for Vancouver's last summer holiday fling, with the Weatherman in charge of props. For the three-day Labor Day ledge suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Friday and lapsed into a coma. Rutledge was being given oxygen and his wife and personal physician, Dr.

Fred A. J. Geier, order at Robeson second scheduled concert in the Peek-skill area, At the same time Dewey announced he would hold Westchester County officials "strictly accountable for that full performance of their duty." The governor acted as tension mounted throughout eastern and southern New York over the Negro singer's concert, scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday. A week ago an announced appearance by Robeson turned into a three-hour riot that injured eight person when anti-Com via Pacific.

Highway. Ordinary auto traffic will use Douglas. Work has already started on Campbell River Road, from King George Highway to Pacific Highway, to facilitate the rerouting of traffic. threatening thousands of feet of felled and bucked timber. Some 300,000 feet of timber in the Canadian Forest Products limits is reported scorched, and the fire Is expected to spread because of extremely dry woods conditions.

However, 100 men fighting under Forest Warden Robert Rittle hope to control the blaze before long unless the wind strengthens. Pumps have been rushed to the area and all available company equipment is battling the fire. The flames are leaping over mountainous terrain, making it difficult to bold the fire. The fire began on the Pretty Creek section of the company's operations where a logging road was being blasted. Pilot Killed BUFFALO, Sept.

3-(AP) An experimental jet plane crashed in flames today, killing Leif Larsden, 31-year-old test pilot. He was arraigned and ordered were in constant attendance. His son and two daughters also were at his bedside. weekend he's painted his scenery with cloudless blue skies. A Canton Now Menaced by Irregulars munist veterans clashed with a held without bail lor a hearing next Friday.

"Tokyo Rose only broadcast propaganda," said. "This man was worse. He not only aided the Japanese by broadcasting propaganda, but he helped the Jap forces in the occupation of Corregidor." Provoo, nicknamed "Tokyo Johnny" by Justice Department workers, said it was "the first time he had heard" of the charges. crowd gathered to hear the con cert. northwest wind, reaching 25 miles an hour, will stir things up backstage for the afternoon and evening performances.

Heating system will register 70 degrees. And the Weatherman is not packing his scenery away after Monday. "A fairly prolonged period of fine weather" is in store for Van-couverites, he forecasts. Family Finds House Afire After Fair Visit A family returned from the Shrine circus Friday night "In this country of our the greatest free nation left in the world we must maintain and ever strengthen I he ideals and principles of our free republic," New Typhoons Aim at Japan TOKYO, Sept. 3 (BUP) Two new high velocity typhoons threatened the Okinawa Iwo Jima area and storm-ravaged Japan today.

B-29 weather reconnaissance planes located typhoon "Use" 600 miles southeast of Okinawa, moving northwest at. 12 miles per hour with 85-mile-an-hour winds, intensifying hourly. Another tropical storm, nicknamed "Madeline," with 72-mile-an-hour velocity bore down on Iwo Jima from 600 miles northeast of Guam. Dewev said. CANTON, Sept.

3 (API A division of Nationalist troops was rushed out today to meet 2000 to 3000 Red irregulars who were fighting toward Tsungfa, only 35 miles northeast of Canton. The irregulars, armed by the regular Chinese Communist armies further north, were striking far behind the front lines. This disruptive action had been feared by the Nationalist command. The main front, which no place is nearer than 140 miles, remain "The rights of free speech and of assembly are guaranteed to Jap Mount1 Erupts TOKYO, Sept. 3 (API Mount Asama, 93 miles west of Tokyo, erupted today.

Observers reported the volcano rumbled, the earth trembled and smoke, ashes and sand erupted. all, regardless of political beliefs. These rights must be respected, co una ineir nome on tire. About $1500 damage was done to the interior and contents of the year-old bungalow at 3005 East First, owned by George Echard. however hateful the views of some of those who abuse them." The fire seemed to have start The new storms loomed in the wake of Ceneral Japan's worst typhoon in history, which killed an estimated 163 persons and U.S.

Fighter Plane Shoots Up Fishboat NEW BEDFORD, Sept. 3 (BUP) The "mystery plane" which strafed and nearly sank a New Bedford fishing boat was a fighter craft of the Connecticut Air National Guard, it was disclosed today. 1,1. III! ed in the chesterfield, which was demolished. It burned through the floor and ceiling.

A nearby radio and piano were also Mr. and Mrs. Echard had taken their daughter, Dana, 9, to the PNE after supper. They discovered the fire at 11:30 p.m. The family stayed overnight with Mrs.

Echard's family, Mr. and Mrs J. Levas, 3001 Woodland. Constable Ian Morgan was posted to guard the house flooded thousands of acres. In areas north and east of Tokyo and within the city itself, river levels dropped toward normal with clearing skies.

Maj. Carl jansen, intelligence two-man crew would have been officer for the Guard's 103rd ed relatively unchanged. Canton itself was calm. Foreign diplomats were not so calm. Several missions pressed the foreign office for a probable date for transferring the capital to Chungking, in the relatively safer west of China.

They were assured they would be given at least 10 days' notice. The Red withdrawals continued on the front northwest of Canton. The ministry of national defense said the armies of Man-churian Gen. Lin Piao had pulled out of Changteh, 410 miles northwest of Canton. There has been no satisfactory explanation for these withdrawals.

The Nationalists say the Reds fell back under pressure, Military observers doubt this. At. first they were inclined to believe the withdrawal was to form a trap to snare Gen. Pal Chung-Hsi and his armies, the main defense forces for Canton. B.C.

Kelp Sent To Scottish Coast rmimJiJ I IiL I tit VICTORIA, Sept. 3 (CP) Today's Scratches At Exhibition Park First Rae Sweeping Wasp, Dolly Somers, Glenboro, Lieut. Gerald. Second Raie Wild Town, Arbor Vita. Fourth Raee Sir Swynord Royal Charter, Rip Vee, Dr.

Dora. Sixth Race Adonne, Susans Agent. Eighth B8.ee Slipstitch. Entries and Selections engage 25. killed if they had not leaped to safety.

Broderick and Ellis Henry, 25, landed on the wharf. Louis Oliveria, 22, jumped into the sea. The bullets put the vessel's radio out of commission, punctured her fuel line and cut through her metal hull. Many of the holes were below the water line and Broderick said the 30-foot craft would have sunk if he hadn't had excellent pumps aboard. Fighter Squadron at Groton, said that seven of the squadron's planes were over No Man's Land Island Friday, firing live ammunition, This was about the time some 20 slugs peppered the fishing boat Sharker which was tied to a wharf at the island, five miles south of Martha's Vineyard, Capt.

Lee Broderick. 42, skipper of the craft, said he and his Experiments are being conducted in Scotland to determine whether British Columbia kelp can be grown successfully along the Scottish coast, Trade and Indus (AP Wirepnoto AGING CROONER RUDY VALLEE is shown at Oakland marriage license bureau as he receives permit to wed Eleanor Kathleen Norris, right. Couple plan to wed today. Groom-to-b gave hi ag as 48. Hi iianceea University of California graduate, it 21.

try Minister Eyres announced Friday..