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The Vancouver Suni
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TODAY'S TIDES: High 4:19 p.m. 13.4 feet. FRIDAY'S TIDES: Low 12:02 a.m. 0.7 feet; high 7:28 a.m. 15.7 feet; low 12:49 p.m.

10.5 feet; high 5:25 p.m. 13.2 feet. Today's sunset, 4:42 p.m. Friday's sunrise, 8:01 a.m. Rain today and tonight.

Cloudy with showers Friday. Milder. Winds light Low tonight, 35; high Friday, 47. Weather map on Page 6. RAW FINAL TAtlow 7141 36 PAGES 0MBIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953 VANCOUVER, FOUNDED 1886 Vol.

lxvu no. $7 O- I Ikeleteims IFoyirad! U- Workmen ord ftamfey Pa irk RAF PLANES COLLIDE; 25 BELIEVED KILLED VALETTA, Malta, Jan. 15 (AP) Two RAF planes, a Lancaster bomber and a Valetta transport, crashed into the Mediterranean today. Naval officials said they almost certainly collided in the air. The Lancaster was reported to have carried a crew of seven.

Malta authorities said 18 men were aboard the Valetta. British destroyers, on manoeuvres near the scene of the crash, reported little hope of finding survivors. OUR 'PRINCESS' TOPS IN EAST Sunn Wimimeir To Tour UK Two Children or Woman and Child Two' human skeletons were found by workmen in Stanley Park about 10:30 a.m. today. The workmen told The Vancouver Sun they believed fe? 73 55? the skeletons be those of two children or a child and a Near the skeletons was a small rusty hatchet, which Honey-haired Dolores Peterson, who caotured the hearts of Vancouver theatre audiences when she became "B.C's Penny Princess" last November, is now the undis looKea iiKe a nunter axe.

The gruesome remains were covered with what aD puted "Fenny lor ail Canada. Judges in Toronto announced peared to be a woman's raincape a good deal of earth and leaves. I xSTZf I Ml iiiijiy.ni today that the 19-year-old New Westminster bookkeeper, who lives at 1069 Seventeenth Ave nue, is "Canada Penny and, will go to England early On the skull of the smaller skeleton was an aviator type helmet such as a small boy would wear. Nearby was a lunch bucket such as children take with them to school. Also near the bones was a man's boot.

Found Lying Feet-to-Feet The skeletons were lying in an almost straight line, tms spring with all expenses paid. Dolores, who won The Van couver Sun's B.C. contest in competition with more than 100 other girls, was sleepless with with their feet close together. Actual discovery of the remains was made by Albert excitement Monday night, after she was given advance word of Tong, 2510 Eton, a Park Board employee for the past 15 years, who was working with a gang clearing brush about 100 yards off the main park driveway and about 500 yards her good fortune. "I couldn't even eat any sup- irom tne causeway.

per," she said today. WILL FLY TO TORONTO She said she didn't think she had a chance against the more than 20 girls who were chosen regional Penny Princesses in There were two pairs of shoes near the remains, one pair larger than the other. Both pairs were of the oxford type and had been soled with white rubber. Tong said the skeletons were covered with leaves and some brush, but he was unable to determine if they had been buried. Death Cause Probed Police were on the scene immediately and started a competitions in every key city in Canada.

As "Canada's Penny Princess' LEAVING SOON for United States for medical treatment is Chief Justice Wendell B. Farris of the B.C. Supreme Court, she will fly first to Toronto, where she will be the guest for two days of the J. Arthur Rank film company. thorough search of the area in an effort to determine the cause of the deaths.

Then she'll climb into a Trans- Canada Airlines plane for the The remains were taken to the city morgue where they will be- closely examined by Dr. T. R. Harmon, cor Math er's White Gloves Suggested to Aid Traffic oner's pathologist, detectives and Dr. John wmtDreaa, coroner.

most exciting part of the trip a visit to England that will include a five-day stay in London, a tour of the British movie studios, and introductions to the Police were Unable to say how long the bodies had demonstrates how glove, worn on signal hand, is easily detected. Kinsman Bill Rodgers, 1938 West Nineteenth, looks on. been in the park bush, but they believed it to have been EASY TO SEE in dark are white gloves are proposed for motorists in Vancouver by Vancouver Kinsmen as aid to traffic safety. Lee Easton, 3485 Seaforth Drive, top English film stars. some time.

SAFETY PLAN Picture on Page 3 Missing persons bureau officers at police headquarters are checking their files in an effort to locate the names of two children or a woman and a child who have HITLER'S HEIRS LINKED TO MOSCOW To Alberta-born Dolores, who been reported missing and never discovered. has never been farther away from B.C. than California, her good fortune still seems "almost White Gloves Proposed For Drivers unbelievable." Before she goes, she'll be out British Seize 6 Top Nazis; Charge Plot to Grab Power iittea, nead to loot, with a brand new wardrobe, as an ad Canadian Asked to Probe UN Loyalty dition to all the clothes and accessories she won in The BONN, Germany, Jan. 15 Sun's regional contest. Vancouver Kinsmen Club wants to issue white gloves to city motorists to cut down on traffic accidents resulting from (BUP) Six former high-ranking Nightcap By BARRY MATHER Speaking of liquor do you remember the time? In 1932 the Vancouver Presbytery of the United Church proposed that all "beer saloons be closed down for the duration cf the Depression.

In 1933 the Liquor Board, running into competition from hard-up people with time and home-brew on their hands, cut the price of a liquor permit from $2 to 25c, permitted beer parlors to sell beer to take out and also OK'd home delivery. Conservative MLA's were considering asking the govern-ment to take over and operate all the beer parlors, in 1931. Vancouver voted against sale of beer by the glass (15,974 for, 16,163 against) in June, 1924. When beer parlors were established the only word they were allowed to use to distin BOSSES EXCITED TOO UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 15 (AP) Secretary- N6w she's excitedly making Nazis-Ltwo named in Hitler's will as "heir's" to high posts in faulty signalling.

General Trygve Lie has named Leonard W. Brockington, former chairman of the CBC's board of governors, to head preliminary arrangements for a leave of absence from her job with a Royal City insurance the German Reich were arrest a three-man United Nations loyalty panel, it was reported Kinsman Bill Rogers appeared before Wednesday's directors' meeting of Vancouver Traffic ed today by British authorities. firm, but there's no doubt she'll today. They were charged with plot The other two men will be the get permission to go. and Safety Council with the FALSE TEETH TTlVT'c- s.V.it ln.l AfftA si "My lamuy and bosses are ljxi a unci icta nun ri i hi proposition that the club is pre Lin La i tiiiiii ii iiirr.

i-iii. all just as excited as I Dolores said. ANCHORED NOW ting, probably with help from East German Reds or even with Moscow itself, to overthrAv the West German government. pared to issue at least 1500 white gloves to a cross section can Negro who won the 1950 of the city's motorists. Dolores, who was taken to Hollywood by Sun columnist The white gloves, to be worn British security officers and military police swooped down Penny Wise following the No tion efforts in Palestine.

on the left hand and costing vember contest, was chosen or Lie has established the board secretly during the night to seize the Canadian title by judges in to help him administer staff about 12 cents, would be given to motorists who do a lot of downtown driving, Rogers said. DENVER, Jan. 15 (AP) A system of installing dentures that anchors false teeth to the jaw has been reported to the Denver Dental Association's clinical session, Two Denver dentists who asked to remain unidentified helped to perfect the Toronto who were supplied with policy as it relates to loyalty a photograph and information questions. Advocating a back to the hand about her. He announced that it would be movement Rogers said "use of flasher signals on cars is caus set up at the time he accepted the six suspected ringleaders oi the conspiracy.

An official British announcement said the group was plotting to seize control of West Germany and maintained contacts "within and without" West Germany. Highly placed British sources in London added that it was be ing laxity and resulting in ternational panel of jurists that he fire Amencan employees "We feel these white gloves whose disloyalty to the United will make Vancouver drivers States was established. Twenty-Mile Speed Limit For Highway Police clamped a 20-mile-per more safety-conscious," Rogers JEAN ROBB Tobacco Roadblock lieved the arrested to the DOL'G HILLYER police order said. Nazi Reich had close contacts Ill Driver Impaired' tinize aouDum cases wnere a He said he believes the idea with East German Communists dispute arises. has neven been tried anywhere and "possibly with Moscow it before.

self." Police Crackdown hour speed limit on Fraser Val The offer was turned over to TORONTO, Jan. 15 (CP) A German sources, said the ley highway between Chilliwack Jury Ponders group also was believed to have council's engineering and enforcement committees for. fur and Hope today as sleet and diabetic who felt ill from insulin and stopped his car to rest was fined $50 today for driving with accomplices in "Fascist organizations" in Spain and Argentina. slush made driving nearly 1m ther study. On Tobacco Road' 13 Reds' Fate possible and forced closure of impaired ability.

The group operated so com guish themselves was the cryptic word OPEN. Rev. R. J. Mclntyre, Prohibitionist, told the Police Commission he could not see Into beer parlors from the street.

This was his right under the Act Which stated that the Interiors cf beer parlors must be visible Jrom outside. He threatened that churches might hire detectives and lawyers to enforce the law. In December, 1930, possibly moved by a spirit of Goodwill to man or possibly by a desire to clean out some odd lines, the Liquor Board put up a Christmas Liquor Hamper, Displayed in the Liquor Stores a sample hamper contained: one dozen ale, one bottle whiskey, one bottle gin, and five bottles of wine all for $10. However, this newspaper was soon recording unhappy comments by hamper purchasers, such as "Gypped by the government" "Highway robbery" "If a private merchant did it he'd go to jail." Some 19 schools. In Vancouver, a power failure William Hill, 45, of Toronto said he pulled to the curb to rest pletely underground that it apparently spurned contacts with NEW YORK.

Jan. 15 (BUP Reds Given Warning MUNSAN, Korean Jan. 15 Everyman Repertory Company todav received a warn T-l 11 II 3 and was picked up by police. the more blatant Neo-Nazi politi ing from city police morality officers to either "clean up" cal parties which have periodically sprung up in West Germany. Magistrate C.

A. Thoburn said insulin shock can have the same effect as alcohol and "the time its production or lODacco Koaa or close its doors, munist rartv cnareea witn con the East End blacked stores and homes for 33 minutes on Keefer Street, Union Street, several blocks of East Georgia and the 600-block Main. Pelting rain and wind are believed (BUP) The United Nations today warned the Communists to stop sending ammunition and supplies to front line troops in convoys protected by peace talk The warning came after came after a spiring against the government The top suspect, in this first went to the iury today nine and detective and a policewoman for a diabetic to divest himself of control of a car is not just as SHANK'S MARE Please Turn to Page Two See "British Nab" he is going to black out." Immunity. ing of the trial. described the show asN "lewd and filthy" in a report to City Prosecutor Gordon Scott, ON STOLEN LIST RCMP af Chilliwack said sleet had aggravated icy road condi Visit of the ponce to the Avon tions in that part of the Valley and that all motorists are being Theatre, 142 East Hastings, fol asked to drive not faster than 20 lowed a "bitter complaint from miles per hour.

TACOMA, Jan. 15 (AP) It had to happen sometime somebody stole Shanks' mare. Guy Shanks to police his seven year old white mare had been stolen from the pasture. private citizen," police offi Fourteen schools in the Chilliwack district, two at Agassiz, cials said. Everyman producer Sydney Risk will appear before Mayor une at narri5on.

iviius ana iwo at Abbotsford were closed by school boards because busses found their hamper three bottles short Others complained that the bottles were only "nips," or one-drink phials. ci.m xl -i ai i Fred Hume with a delegation later today to protest the police could not pick up pupils. order. Approximately 4600 pupils stayed home. ouu uiners saiu ine fers contained unknown brands.

Accompanying Mr. Risk are The weatherman promised a number of city theatrical Scottish Blast Kills Worker ALEXANDRIA. Scotland. Jan. milder weather in all parts of people not associated with the B.C.

today. company, He said a polar air mass over I or brands only too well known 1 for Inferiority. The govern- ment made restitution when i the customer could prove it. Two other important dates: 1935, when the waiter would Mr. Risk is also meeting with the province had lost its punch and rain can be expected to re Mr.

Scott this afternoon. 15 (AP) An explosion in the Mr. Risk said the theatre will place snow in many areas. Royal Naval torpedo factory here today killed one workman continue to operate even if or Southeast gales up to 45 miles and critically injured 10 others, dered closed. buy you a beer; 1945, when you would buy the waiter abeer.

per hour will hammer shipping alone Vancouver Island and Police objected particularly ine blast was blamed on a compressed air cylinder which to several torrid love scenes Georgia Straits today. blew up in a crowded workshop which they described as "very A GOOD EVENING to everybody and especially to the customers. bad." Mutton Boycotted REDDING, Jan. 15-(BUP) Approximately 30 prepared to evacuate their LONDON, Jan. 15 (AP) A homes today as swollen north group of London butchers to otars oi tne production are JeanRobb and Doug Hillyer.

Advertising for the play carries the warning "Adult Entertainment only." No one under 18 Is admitted. FAT BOY ON PAGE 3 ern California streams pouring into Shasta Dam forced release floor to floor below. Brakes apparently failed as train sped into depot. Hospital oiiicials tieated 49 people for injuries. (AP Wirephoto), RUNAWAY TRAIN on Pennsylvania Railroad plowed through barrier today in Washington, D.C., station plunged into crowd and crashed through eoncret day boycotted 400 sides of Pata gonian mutton.

The food minis try later withdrew the mutton, of water irom the project,.

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