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THE VANCOUVER DAILY PROVINCE "VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945-26 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS BY CARRIER $1.00 per month. 51st YEAR-NO. 98 Two City Boys Prosecutor Demands Death Coast Warned 40-Mile Gale On Its Way From the Times; Today In Europe op Matric List For Aged Marshal Lord. By ng Student Scores Near-Perfect Mark (Complete Results on Pages 10 and 11) RESCUED AND RESCUER Tnliti ftnhprt. Hucrh Denmster.

student at Lord Byng Firing Squad for Treason; Trial Opens Monday Compiled from late despatchei to Tha Vancouver Dally Province.) PARIS. July 20. Public Prosecutor Andre Mornet will entrance examinations wna and Allan George Mungall, the senior matriculation ask death by firing squad for chief of state, whose trial for Compiled from the news and editorial comment of the London Timet and cabled from The Vancouver Daily Province London Bureau, Times Building, Print ing House Square. (Copyright, 1945. by Southam Co.) LONDON, July 20.

President Truman's work at the Potsdam Conference forms the subject of the Times chief editorial-today. It points out that he comes to Europe sustained by a national vote of confidence such as President Wilson never enjoyed. Whatever troubles may lie ahead, the tragedy of Versailles and Its repudiation by the U.S. Senate will not be 1 re-enacted. Indeed, the Senate, as if to fortify the President on his mission to Europe, has given cordial welcome to those which he has 'declared to be essential to his international policy.

The President himself deserves credit for this. It may well be to open in the Palais de Justice next Monday. The prosecutor said the 89-year-old marshal, "a fierce enemy of the republic, is charged with plotting against the external and internal security of the state. Those two crimes usually send the guilty person to the firing squad. 'The charge against Petain is enormous.

I ask for capital punishment because I'm sincerely convinced that he deserves it." "-iv s. Jr i I i I 4" i v. 2. Mi, that the honeymoon period may Re clouded over before long and Hjiiiy In a world of change it is foolish to be too optimistic. But the fact remains that the happy rela-tions now prevailing between the President, the Congress and the American people are one of the best auguries for the success of the new world order.

Labor Shortage The great shortage of labor in Britain is one of the outstanding features of the end of the war. Seven big manufacturing industries are unable to maintain production at the required level, not only for the war in the Far East, but also for essential civilian needs. One explanation of the short- age, apart from the failure to release men from the forces, is that many thousands of war workers are receiving higher wages In factories and will not return to lower-paid occupations while the cost of living has risen so greatly for everything except rationed food. The question of applying compulsion will be considered later, If men and women workers for 5 yv i 'if 1 1 clothing, hosiery, footwear and 1 textiles can not be obtained.4 The Gale warning was this morning to the Issued Queen Charlottes and west coast of Vancouver Island. A southeast gale, travelling 30 to 40 miles an hour, occa sionally 45, was expected over waters around the Queen Charlottes and extending along the west coast of Vancouver Island by 2 p.m.

It will continue through the night, veering west to north east, and decreasing from 35 to 25 miles an hour Saturday aiternoon. Diver Saved After 7-Hour River Fight Flood gates of the Nia meki luver bridge, near Crescent Beach, Thursday night were cheated of a victim a veteran Richmond diver by the efforts of a fellow diver from Vancouver who risked his own life in the rescue. Trapped in the vice-like jaws of the gates, 60-year-old Ben Gilbert was rescued after seven hours under water by George Unwin, superintendent and chief diver of Straits Towing Salvage Co. of Vancouver. Today he is in Royal Columbian Hospital apparently none the worse for his brush with death.

He was rescued by Unwin himself a veteran diver who went down to the victim three times and finally released him by cutting off the weighted shoe on his right foot. Unwin was called to the scene Just before 4 p.m., made one dive to plan the rescue, made a second dive to release the victim's weights and make him as comfortable as possible while they waited for water pressure on either side of the gate to equalize, then freed him on the third dive. Crowds who lined the bridge just over the scene of the mishap gave a loud cheer when Gilbert popped to the surface like a cork, and again when Unwin out of water seconds later. The flood gates were installed in 1911 to prevent flooding of low land in that area from tide water going up the river. When the tide is out, the normal force oi the river water opens the gates, allowing It to go to the sea.

The gates close automatically when the tide comes in and presses against the doors. TRAPPED FOR HOURS. Gilbert was trapped from 2 p.m. till 8:45 p.m. The veteran diver who has been doing the underwater work on the Surrey gates for 25 years was trapped In one of the several sets of gates which span the river when he ventured too close to a body-wide slit between the gate's doors.

Terriflo pressure of tons of gea water which automatically closes the gates as it backs up the river and partially escapes through the slit sucked Gilbert halfway through, then left him there. (Continued on Page 2.) See DIVER. Boeing Strike Vote Possible Strike vote at Boeing Aircraft became a possibility today. Members Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge 756 at a meet-lil Thursday night laid r'--s "to apply to the department of labor for a strike vote if the company consistently refuses to accept the recommendations of the conciliation board that a union shop be granted." The union is certified In the plant, and has asked for union shop and check-off system of col-lectlng union dues. The company opposes the union shop, saying the management "does not wish to coerce employees into Joining a union as a condition of employment." The union, however, argues that the union shop is in practice in the parent plant of Boeing in Seattle.

Early next week a delegation of lodge officials will visit union leaders in Seattle to discuss the matter. Sixty-year-old ften Gilbert, veteran Ebume diver, was trapped for seven hours in the steel jaws, of a Surrey flood gate and lived to tell the tale. Top picture.Shows the veteran diver bfter he was rescued by George Unwin, expert Straits Towing Salvcge Co. Lower photo shows exhausted Unwin after his'f inal rescue trip. Petain Marshal Petain, former Vichy "high treason" is scheduled Unofficial Rain Won't Kill Smoke Rain, which fell "unofficially" on Vancouver today, i3 not expected to dispel the cloud of smoke which hangs over the city.

The smoke is from huge forest fires, blazing in the woods 'of Washington and Oregon. These districts are tinder dry with no signs of rain. Showers over B.C's coastal region, however, are dousing what is left of the forest fires in this district. All are either under control or extinguished. Today's rain came as a sur.

prise to the weatherman, who had predicted fair weather for today with some slight showers probable over the week-end. "Had it not been for Uncle Sam's forest fire smoke blowing over to this side of the line, we would have had bright weather, with only high, thin clouds iverhead," said the weatherman. Obscured by the U.S. smoke clouds the sun, which otherwise would have shone fairly brightly on Thursday, took on the appearance of an eclipse which could be watched directly with the naked eye. In Vancouver Forest District, where last week forest fires devastated thousands of acres of merchantable timber, mostly on the Island, favorable southeast winds blew up today to help cooler temperatures and higher humidity extinguish woods blazes now well under control, SEATTLE IN HAZE.

Smoke clouds from the U.S. are blowing north mainly from the Olympic Peninsula and the region of Tillamook, near the mouth of the Columbia River. The smoke blanket over western Oregon and Washington, estimated from 4000 to 10,000 thick, has dropped temperatures five to six degrees. Smoke and ashy haze from Grays Harbor and northwest (Continued on Page 2.) See FIRE. Troop Trains Here Saturday Two trains bringing home repatriated R.C.A.F.

and army personnel and casualty cases, will arrive In Vancouver Saturday. At twenty minutes after noon a C.N.R. train will bring in 100 airmen who returned on the He de France. Army casualty cases and 60 air. force personnel are on a special C.P.R.

hospital train due here at 4:55 p.m. Fire Threatens 275,000 Acres SALEM, July 20. (AP) A deputy state forester warned today that a brief spell of "fire weather" might spread the Wilson River blaze over 275,000 acres. He was positive that the entire Tillamook burn area would go up in smoke if the area should get two days of high winds, hot temperature, low humidity. The only thing that can save it would be several inches of rain.

to be refined. That was because United States refineries could not handle It. Now, with lend pease at an end. It is etlll considered lend-lease material, but may go elsewhere than to Russia. It may be sent to the South Seas or to the Antipodes back to the lands which originally produced it.

It is not expected it will be con- oiuivo, the Paris daily "Le Solr" asked editorially that the trial, or at least the most important phases of it, be broadcast so that everybody may follow the affair "to make conspicuous the treason of the ex-chief of statt and to enlighten public opinion." Mornet said Madame Petain asked permission to sit beside the aged French marshal during his trial. DOUBLE CHARGE. Mornet, public prosecutor in the big treason trials after the First Great War, will conduct the case. Marshal Petain faces a double charge of plotting against the internal security of the state and of intelligence with the enemy. "A trial in the case of Petain is necessary to dissipate the shuffling created by the sole name of Petain in France and outside.

"It is necessary for the world to know that the alleged secret agreements with London never existed, and that Petain is a traitor in the true meaning of the word. 'There won't be any spectacular events during the trial. The last witnesses were heard and the Indictment is complete. The only matter for debate remains in the documents in the hand of the high court." BUY GOLF CLUB City Council on Monday will consider a Park Board proposition purchase the 105-acre Marine Drive Golf Club property at Fifty-seventh and Marine for conversion into a public course. The board has agreed to purchase the property for $50,000 and has won tentative approval from the council.

Complications arose when offi cials of the golf club told the aouncil In a private meeting today that they had made arrangements to obtain control. It was then decided to put the whole matter over to Monday. COURT ORDER GIVEN. The course is owned by a private company with a substantial debenture issue. When the club encountered difficulties the company's bondholders agreed to a foreclosure and early in June a court order for sale of the links for $50,000 was obtained, the purchase price to be paid by July 6.

On July 5 the Park Board decided to purchase. The solicitor of the trustees for the debenture holders was asked to apply to the court for an extension of time. This was to enable the board to obtain the council's assent. City Council's Interest In the negotiations arises out of the fact that while the Park Board will pay for the course out of its own funds, it can only make expenditures with consent of the council. U.S.

Casualties At 1,053,000 WASHINGTON, July 20. (AP) Combat casualties reported by the armed forces since the United States entered the war have reached 1,053,101, divided as follows: Killed, wounded' 639 048; mlfising, prisoners, 121,509. BOARD WOULD High School, led in University a near-perfect average of 97, Mao-ee Hich School, topped division, in results announced education. Carries the Mail Highest marks in British Columbia in the matriculation examinations were gained by John Dempster of Lord Byng High School when he achieved an average of 97 per cent. John is spending his holidays delivering mail.

He is pictured as he finished his route Thursday. Below is Allan George Mungall of Magee High, who won highest marks in senior matriculation with an average of 91.2. Fate of Plane-Still in Doubt Fate of the Liberator and 14 R.C.A.F. personnel missing seven days on a hop from Ucluelet to Patricia Bay is still in A ground party headed for the 2800-foot level In the Somerset mountain range, 15 miles southeast of Bamfield, where wreckage was sighted last Tuesday, has been out of contact with Western Air Command since 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

A 500-foot celling has, halted flying, and the small radio set carried by the party is not strong enough to contact the Bamfield base. Western Air Command does r.ot expect word until late tonight or early Saturday. last year. Total for the first six months of 1945 was 2018, compared with 2032 during the same period of 'Official News' From Potsdam BOSTON, July 20 (AP) Under a three-column headline announcing, "Secrecy Shrouds Big Three Talks," in the middle of the front page of the Boston Globe Thursday was an oblong of blank, white space. Above (L.

PfldiniT! "Official News." reading: uniciai 7 7 i in mr i if'" Kit 5 11 Royal City Agrees to Sell Tax Lots for Housing Plan today by the department of John Robert tHugh Dempster his folks call him Hugh is the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. D.

Dempster, 2986 West Thirtieth. He wins a $175 scholarship of the Royal Institution. He has an amateur chemistry laboratory in the basement of his home, begs small glasses ana jars from his mother, and then warns her to leave them aione. He will take chemistry at U.B.C. for a degree in applied science at U.B.C.

This summer Hugh is a postman, working out of Station G. He took that job so he would be out in the open. Hugh was born at Mayo, Yukon, while his father was R.C.M.P. inspector there. The family moved to Vancouver in 1934 when Mr.

Dempster retired from the force. SEEKS SCIENCE DEGREE. Allan George Mungall is the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mungall, 6756 Arbutus.

He gets a $175 scholarship for his average of 94.2 per cent. Allan took his senior and Junior matriculation together, passing his junior matriculation with honors. A native of Vancouver, he attended Maple Grove Public and Point Grey Junior High schools. He plans to work An accomplished piano player, the boy has a hobby of building model aircraft, and in the winter tqaches Sunday school at Knox United. This summer he is employed by the American Can Co.

(Continued on Page 2.) See EXAMS. A. J.T.TAYLOR DIES IN EAST Alfred J. T. Taylor, 58, Vancouver financier and industrialist who was responsible for the building of Lions Gate Bridge and the British Pacific Properties project on the West Shore, died today in New York.

He had been ill for some time. Mr. Taylor, whose family resides in Vancouver, went to New York shortly after outbreak of war In 1939, accepting a position with the British Ministry of Aircraft Production there. He assisted Morris Wilson, president and general manager of the Royal Bank Canada, who headed the ministry in Canada and the United States. SOLD KEW BEACH.

More recently Mr. Taylor had concerned himself with private business affairs, spending a good deal of his time at his Kew Beach home in West Vancouver. The home has been sold to W. Garfield Weston, Toronto-born British M.P., known as the "biscuit king," one of the wealthiest men In the British Empire. Mr.

Weston recently established his home in Van couver. Mr. Taylor was a native of British Columbia. He was born at Victoria on August 4, 1887, the son of Rev. George William Taylor and Elizabeth A.

Taylor, From a beginning as mechanic cal inspector with Canadian General Electrical Co. of Peterborough, in 1906, Mr. Taylor's career covered a wide variety of indus trial, and engineering activity in Vancouver, Eastern Canada and Great Britain. In 1912, he founded in Van couver the Taylor Engineering (Continued on Page 2.) See TAYLOR. Dealers to Sell Military Jeeps To Public July 20.

(CP) War Assets Corporation said that no military jeeps had been turned in by any of the three armed services for disposal, although considerable other military equipment and supplies have been put tm the auction block. However, when Jeeps are being turned in, they will tie distributed to franchised automobile dealers for sale to the public and will be sold directly by the corporation. They will be completely reconditioned and will be ready for Immediate civilian use. DENVER, July 20. (AP) -A spectacular electrical storm and downpour flooded suburban aurora iasi nigm lor mc Becona a Jn Aurora last night for the second damaee estimated at from $40.0001 A government still has power to direct workers into given in dustry, but tt will be exercised only as a last resort.

Juan Not Impressed Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne, who has been in terviewed at Lausanne, says he is not Impressed by General Franco's project for restoring the i monarchy in Spain. He is making no preparations to go to Madrid, and he does not want to receive an offer of the throne from Franco In any event, preferring a direct request from the Spanish people. Spanish Monarchists say that Franco is using the mon archy to bolster up his own wan lng regime. King Leopold says he will not Jurrender his throne until the Belgian people have had an opportunity of choosing their leaders at a general election. He flatly denies that his surrender to the Germans was arranged beforehand, and he insists that he was taken prisoner and treated as one.

Denies Collaboration He furthermore denies that his wife's relatives collaborated with the Germans. Because public demonstrations are prohibited in Belgium, there will be no Inde pendence Day celebrations to morrow. Koman uainonc min Isters who resigned over the ques tion of the King's abdication, are" now anxious to rejoin the government. Letters continue to appear in the Times protesting against lux- uries supplied at Potsdam for the meetings of the Big Three. One objector says that while millions A of people the world over are suf-1 ferine terribly from lack of food NEW WESTMINSTER, July 20.

Determined to get houses now, the Royal City today stepped out ahead of the rest of Canada by taking the first concrete step toward a building program. City Council agreed to sell 48 tax sale lots in the Eighth avenue subdivision to J. L. Carroll and Associates of Seattle. Firwt step toward sale of another 139 lots was taken.

And council wired Ottawa asking that special consideration be given in granting building permits for the project. The Seattle group is ready to start building immediately. Ottawa needs only to grant the permits and release the manpower and materials. New Westminster City Council will sell the 48 lots to Carroll and associates for $378 each. Five lots in the 53-lot area which the Seattle firm applied for are privately owned.

Negotiations with the owners will be necessary before approval of the Red Cross Fete At Graham Home Rain Or Shine The Red Cross fete, scheduled this afternoon at. the home of Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Graham, 3689 Selkirk street, will go on, rain or shine. The fete will also be continued tomorrow, with a repetition of feature events, concluding with dancing until 1 a.m. Many of the attractions will be under marquees, the committee states, so that guests will find plenty to enjoy when taking shelter from either sun or shower.

and O.P.A. announcement am new subdivision plan. New Westminster will pay for grading, prime coating of roads in the area, light and water service installation. Sewers will be installed on a local Improvement basis. Mr.

Carroll had asked for an option pn an additional 139 lots as an integral part, of the deal. As council has no authority at present to grant this, application will be made immediately to the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council for the necessary power. It was 6tated 'that revenue from sale of the 48 lots will be (Continued on Page 2.) See HOUSING. Mayor Okays Soldier Homes Building Plan Mayor J. W.

Cornett today endorsed a plan by Pacific North' west Development Corporation Ltd. to construct homes for veterans, and a company official said it hoped to be ready to start actual construction by August are waiting for another telegram from Ottawa this afternoon," he said. "Earlier, Ottawa had wanted to know when we could make the announcement." BOUNDARY ROAD SITE. Mayor Cornett passed his approval on the plan after he had seen company officials Thurs day afternoon. The plan is to erect the homes In a group in the Boundary road area.

"nut" ha 'nffiniai "we alio are ready to build homes' for veterans in any part of the city, on a limited profit plan. This is the second phase of our project. The first Is for the group of homes." As soon as the final approval comes from Ottawa, he said, his architects and engineers will go to work. The homes, of different design, will be in the $4000 and $5000 class. They will be fully modern, on 50-foot lots.

The company's plan calls for a park and a community centre for the soldiers' homes. The com pany also would construct nrcuons. and many are actually starving, stories of expensive wines, game and strawberries and cream do not seem worthy of a conference concerned with providing the bare needs for a dtsUtute conti nent. jl 1 7 Babies Boost Birth Rate Plenty of Sugar On the Pier Vancouver's birthrate Jumped In June, with a total of 717 new arrivals listed on Courthouse vital statistics books, compared with 679 during the same month last year. Of this total 325 were girls if' and 392 were boy.

While the monthly total was up over last year, the first six months of this year showed a slight drop over the January-June total In 1944, with 3837 births compared with 3852. Deaths in June totalled 299, comprising 116 females and 183 males, compared with 295 in June last year. Total deaths for the first six months of this year were There were 473 marriages In June, against 463 the same month U.S. SHOE PRODUCTION BOOSTED 20 PER CENT. WASHINGTON, July 20.

(AP) Twenty per cent, more shoes will be made for United States civilians in the last three months of this year because of reduced demands for military footwear. While Vancouver housewives are short of sugar for preserving and amateur brewers bewail the situation, It is reported that pounds of the sweet lie at Bullantync Pier waiting for ships to carry it to foreign ports. The 8000 tons of sugar has been there some weeks, and may be there for a few more raw sugar was si'ni iu vantuuvci The War Production Board mipntnannssmlS. mi8nt a possiwe. 23J to $00,000.

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