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2r fa 6 Arc new YEAR "taW- ZZRO VOL No 270 SAULT 5TE MARIE CANADA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1 1950 FIVE CENTS A COPY Second Clue In Vast Air Search Br GRAHAM TROTTER WHITEHORSE YT Two air force March planes with expert radio men aboard to monitor possible signals early today were converging on the Smith Riverarea 300 miles east of here to investigate a weak radio signal that may have come from a transport plane missing since last Thursday with 44 aboard The weak short signal in wireless code was picked up early today by another plane flying over the area Its contents were not disclosed 1 Before dawn one search plane took off from Fort Nelson BC Effort To Win Atomic Arms Race With Russ By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP The United States is going ahead' full blast on development of a hydrogen super-bomb in an obvious effort to win the atomic arms race with Russia Only an agreement which would bar atomic weapons in all countries including Russia under a tight system of international controls can now banish this prospective weapon from UB arsenals The state' department is review Divar William Currla prep arts near Sudbury OnU to search tor children' drowned when a truck through the ice to descend Into Long Lake the bodies if a and two driven by their father broke PULL BATTLESHIP MISSOURI FREE FROM MUD BANK NORFOLK Tha piighty battleship Missouri was pulled free of her Chesapeake Bay shoal at 7:16 am EST today Helped by choppy seas and wind-blown higher tide she yielded to the strain and whipsawing of 21 tugs and her own winches As she slipped afloat sternward orders were given to take soundings along the half mil of water back to tne safe deep coan-nel Dredges had beep working to clear a path for her U-S navy men afloat and ashore greeted the news with whoops Tim Missouri a stricken-45 000-ton giant since she strayed from the buoy -marked ship channel Jan 17 end went aground was moved cautiously from the moment she finally floated The navy put the official time at 7:18 ajn but movement astern was plainly perceptible minutes before: It was an ideal day for the navy to flat thp battleship and shed its big embarrassment Fresh northeast winds whipped Chesapeake Bay and brought white caps that ran to four or five feet A tide of an anticipated 26 feet was pushed higher by the wlqd' and the navy had managed to secure a fifth and sixth pontoon under her stern before the seas became choppy Her two big bow anchors Jjad been removed Four hundred tops of fresh water had been pumped out and her bow rode higher At the zero hour at 730 Rear Admiral Allan Smith salvage chief sent th etane message: reports for The ship that has been both the pride and persecution was warped out into the safe water for a trip to the navy yard at Portsmouth for dry docking and Inspection Her sister ship the unfinished Kentucky was moved out so that could' be- accommodated Pick ExrConvict For Boston Theft BOSTON (AP) A garage mechanic today identified a former convict as a man he saw in garage on the night of the $1500000 bandit raid on the armored ear servicaY vaults Police said the mechanic picked out of the gallery a Sicture of the former 3-year-old Springfield man Investigators would net disclose the name of the mechanic or the former convict for reasons Brief Urges Road To Lakehead Cities FORT WILLIAM A road from Atikokan Ont to the lake-head w(thln me year is urged in a brief prepared by the Fort William and Port Arthur chambers of commerce at Port Arthur Monday The brief will be combined with similar reports from Atikokan and Fort Frances chambers of commerce They wi)l be sent to Premier Leslie Frost of Ontario for study' The Fort William and Port Arthur brief asked the government to consider splitting the contract for the Lakehead-Atikokan portion of the proposed Fort William-Fort Frances road into sections These could be constructed by separate contracts making it possible to have the road in service within one H-BOMB PLAN SPURS ATOMIC CONTROL TALK LONDON (AP) President order to build a hydrogen super-bomb brought a wave of new pleas in Europe today for international control of atomic energy But the British government Mid there would be no hope of success now in direct talks' with Prime Minister Stalin newspapers headlined decision and spurred a running debate on how to stop the threat of world destruction- Some editorials said the deci- shm in Washington was inevitable in view of the inability of carl and west to agree on control of atomic production The Liberal Stockholm Dagens Nyhster blamed the Truman deqjKon on the refusal to co-operate The communist preu in Britain and France Jumped at- the announcement as further indication the United States Is preparing for a -out war" and demanded immediate abolition of the atom bomb and prohibition of the making of th hydrogen bomb A foreign office statement which came Just before the announcement' gave an Indication of the official British attitude toward the gi'rn control stalemate The statement was a reply to a formal request by British Quak- era that Prime Minister Attlee try for a personll conference with Stalin Truman and other west-em government heads In an attempt1 to reach an international agreement sreat an atomic armaments race makes It Imperative 'hat the br-irn'n" of an international agreement be said the memorandum from the Society of Friends (Quaker-) fore'n office reolv said: "It would be orrr'mptuous to wtc' tTt ne-rmsl contact at even level would do any'hin but raise unduly the hones for ne-re which have been so p- --elly disap-ported in the past" The reply said that Judgta by their recent conduct the Russians domi-'t-d by the Marxist theory of an inevitable ctezh between the two svsfems into which the world is 400 miles southeast of here to sweep the air route up to Smith River Another took off from Whitehorse All radio men in the area were alerted for any radio reports Operators were standing by with radio direction finding equipment to try to obtain a on the position if the signal should be repeated Similar reports of weak signals in other areas have been received previously by search officials They have proved groundless Officials 'said that -a receiver must be practically on of a Gibson Girl transmitter to receive a signal in mountainous country- A Gibson Girl is anem-ergency radio set of the type carried by the missing plane The weather was quite clear today as the planes roared sway from search headquarters New urgency was given their quest by a weather forecast of low clouds and snow tomorrow Cold weather moving out of Siberia threatened bitter weather At Smith River it was 20 below zero At Whitehorse it was 10 below and the forecast high was zero or five above To increase the chances of spotting the missing plane a maximum oft TIT spatters in addition to the plane crews were placed aboard some of the big craft Pilots were given permission to land at the nearest base after two flying to permit spotters to rest their eyes In a pre-dawn briefing Sqdn Ldr Miller of the HC-AT said some of the men appeared to getting tired He reminded them that Operation Attache the big search in port hern Manitoba in September 1948 had lasted 13 days and the lost plane had been found Today is the sixth day of the Yukon search duhbod operation Mike Capt Nogar United States air force operations officer confirmed that weak signals have been heard from the rugged Smith River area about 80 miles east of Watson Lake where planes first searched for the missing transport 1 The plane which was carrying an Associated Press correspondent from Fort Nelson Anchorage reported the signals to search headquarters here Lt-Col Eugene Strauss chief of the United' States air force search force here called a briefing conference for all pilots at dawn (about 11:30 am EST) The radio signal was the second and most likely clue inrihe vast air search for the C-54 which disappeared into the snow-covered mountains after reporting safely at Snag (YT) 300 miles wast of here The transport was on a flight from Anchorage to Great Falls Mont The first big clue was a report of an explosion near Carcross 48 miles south of here During investigation of It a United States air force Dakota crashed into a mountain peak injuring three of the six persons aboard They were brought out of the rough mushland Tuesday after the pilot trekked eight miles to the Alaska highway through some of the toughest country in the world The new development again (Continued on Page Savon) CANADIAN HOTEL! EMPIRE SOLD to us Interests MONTREAL (CP) of the $15000000 Cardy hotel chain was sold to a Canadian subsidiary of the Sheraton Corporation of America Tuesday in one of the biggest hotel deals in recent years The announcement of the transaction was made jointly Tuesday by Vernon Cardy president of Cardy Corporation Ltd and John Udd president of Sheraton Hotels Ltd They declined to reveal the selling price announcing the sale at undisclosed But Tuesday night an informed source said that the 50-year-old Cardy gave up the controlling interest in his hotel empire for $4 500000 The source said that Cardy received a cheque for $1000-000 Tuesday and will receive the balance during the next five years with full interest on the outstanding amount The Cardy hotel -group sold to the $63000000 Sheraton Cor-poration includes the 1100- room Mount Royal Montreal: 1000-robm King Edward Toronto 300-room General Brock Niagara Falls Ont 300-room Prince Edward Windsor Ont 400-room Royal Connaught Hamilton Ont and the 200-room Alpine Inn Ste Marguerite Que- Following the business meeting between the two hotel groups Mr Udd and Mr Cardy appeared briefly at a press conference at the Mount Royal Hotel Mr Cardy said he was leaving 35-years of hotel business in favor of retirement He said that he make a trip to The Sheraton president said that acquisition of the new chain would bring no changes in the policy of the Cardy hotels He said that personnel also would not be affected' Mr Udd aid Sheraton Interests had purchased two-thirds of the securities oljCar-dy Corporation He gave the replacement value of the Cardy properties as excess of $25-000000 Sheraton officials said that the new board of directors has not yet been completed Ask Inco Union Join Steelmen SUDBURY Millard Canadian director of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL) Tuesday Invited the Sud-bury local of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers to discuss merger with the steel union The Canadian Congress of Labor recently gave the steel union jurisdiction in the held of gold and metal mining The smelter union was expelled from the C-LC at its last convention allegedly because of communist domination- The invitation In the form of an open letter to the secretary of the smelter local at the International Nickel Company plant here is interpreted as the first piove in a campaign to win the smelter members to the steel workers The letter was published as an advertisement in the Sudbury Star It suggested a committee be set up to discuss proposals for affiliation come from the opposite hemisphere without warning and with unpredictable At Albuquerque NM Tuesday night a Kirtland air force bate spokesman said three squadrons of 700-mile-an-hour F-86 jet fighters with full service loads of ammunition are on a contsant 24-hour alert They are responsible for New Mexico atomic installations at Los Alamos Sandia base where atomic weapons ere assembled and Kirtland base home of the air force's special weapons command The official also said that antiaircraft defences are being set up "All planes flying over the area must be he added The announcement did not indicate what measures would he taken to patrol the 200-mi le-wide stretch of ocean off the Atlantic coast But this area adjacent to the principal US east-roast ports is within easy reach of eastern air fields A defence official also pointed out that the new program logically follows the authorization last sear of a radar screen aroqiid North America and the recent RAIL WORKERS CLEAR MOUNTAIN PASS TO COAST STOUT 'Hit that snow boys Hit it then hit again That wag the 24-hour-day order from Michael 'Big Mike) Ab-rahamson Big Mike won through last night The Canadian National Railways announced that its tracks linking British Columbia with the east had been rleared of snow in the Fritter River Canyon' The line was blocked for 12 days by snowglides The order from Big Mike CNH roadmasfer kept his hardy crew bucking drifts in tije Fraser Canyon 120 miles east of Vancouver day and night 'for 12 gruelling ever since the night of Jan 19 when the 'full fury of a Rocky Mountains winter swept down on the line be- tween Yale and Boston Bar Big Mike tame out of the battle with the title conferred on him by his of "king of the This is how Bing Mike's crew cleared the line: At the sound of a whistle snowplow with wedged-shaped blade lurched forward quickly gathering speed Clow to 40 tons of equipment rolled toward the snowslide Fifteen feet short of the slide Big Mik sounded three 'urgent Tfs of the whistle Engines wytajversed but with only a siCtv "Arkening in speed the plow hit the slide with a sicken' ing thud The train shuddered backed away Perhaps five feet had been gained This routine with slight variations was carried out every three minutes for 12 days and nights through slides sometimes 90 feet in height As the was given last night workmen farther east were patiently scooping out a of eight cars abandoned when a snowslide engulfed them The passengers were rescued before a second blizzard sealed it in last week Freight trains loaded with coal for Vancouver will be the first rolling stock to move through Fraser Canyon Passenger trains will not operate until the present narrow Just wide enough to announced the has been widened T- Free Fire Captain On Driving Charge A dangerous driving charge against Thomas Hutton a Hamilton Are captain was dismissed yesterday The charge was laid after the death of Douglas Mahoney and Eleanor Gregory both of nearby Mimico following a head-on collision with Hutton's car last July Cooksvillc- is 13 mllea west or Toronto THE WEATHER (Official report of the US Weather Bureau) Sault Temperatures Yesterday at noon 11 Highest yesterday 17 Today at noon 11 Lowest last night 4-Warmest on this date was 38 In 1922 Coldest on this date was in 1918 Sault Precipitation Precipitation to 7:80 am 03 Accumulated during thia month 00 Departure from normal this month 00 Sun seta tonight 5:41 pm Sun rises tomorrow 8:00 am High Low Vest this Dawson Victoria Eston Winnipeg Port Arthur White River Kapuekusing Sault 19 29 23 16 12 14 17 ing American policy on international reported to include the possibility of a new approach to but whether anything will come of such studies remains to be seen The decision to go ahead with work on -the hydrogen bomb expected to be vastly more destructive than the original A-bomb was announced by President Truman yesterday He said he had reached his conclusion under his as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to see to it that our country is able to defend itself against any possible aggressor" the president said I have directed the atomic energy commission to continue its work on ill forms of atomic weapons including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb all other work in the field of atomic weapons It is being and will be carried forward on a basis consistent with the over-all objective of our program for peace and He adduu: we shall continue to do until a satisfactory plan for international control of atomic energy is fateful decision was greeted with general approval in congress where it has been anticipated as a defence measure believe congress should support said Senator Eugene Mil likin (Rep Colo) chairman of the Republican conference and member of the senate-house of representatives atomic committee Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois the Democratic leader said pray God that we may never have to use the bomb" and added: believe the potential destructive power will bring the people of the world to their senses to the end that we will have world Representative 1 Carl Vinson (Dem Ga) chairman of tha house armed services committee said Truman donS the right and proper On the other hand Representative Sterling Cole (Rep NYJ a-member of the atomic commit-tea' disapproved He said Truman had usurped the authority of congress and that the very security of mankind was at stake The decision of the president was accepted without surprise at the United Nation in New York Some UN diplomats speculated that the H-bomb announcement might lmpel'the Russians to come back into talks on control of the' atom and weapons of mass destruction They walked out Jan 19 in protest against the presence of a Chinese nationalist delegate This official said It wap too early to talk about a new appropriation to finance the work estimated to cost from $100000000 to perhaps as much as $4000000-000 The 'president's statement that work on atomic weapons including the super bomb will afforded the first official (Continued aa Page 15) Tsiang bolds the implied threat to veto any council decision to oust him Any council decision needs a seven-vote majority but each of the big five powers can overturn this majority by voting in the negative and thus exercising its power to veto While Tsiang says he has the power to veto such a decision he has not said he will use it Chief target ef the Soviet bloc in the representation issue Tsiang was ambassador to Moscow from the fall of 1936 to the spring of 1936 A processor of history in 1033 he was invited by Chiang Kai-Shek to be director of political' affairs After his Moscow experience Tieng returned to cabinet serving as a right-hand man through the war Aa (or his future in the UN Tsiang makes no predictions It is however generally accepted here that his tenure of office in the UN will end when a majority of the 39 members break with Chiang and recognize Mao regime Gale left six years and John two and a half drowned with their mother Mrs Orville Kill at Long Lake Their bodies were recovered six hours after by diver William Currie Themother had said months ago she had a premonition the children would drown Truman Guard Atomic Plants Against Aerial Attack China's Top UN Delegate Steps Down As President Steel Company Mails Dividends HAMILTON Steel Company of Canada Ltd Tuesday mailed to shareholders dividends of 75 cents a share for the quarter ended Dee 31 and an extra distribution of $1 on shares registered in names at Jan 6 In an accompanying letter Hilton president stated that during last year the tonnage of ingots shipped was five per cent' greater than in 1948 establishing a record Consumption of ingots and semi-finished steel purchased from other producers also increased Average prices realized were slightly higher due mainly to a larger proportion of steel sold In more highly finished forms In consequence the percentage of increase in dollar sales exceeded that of Ingot production Tremor at Timmins Not Registered OTTAWA Officials at tho Dominion Observatory said Tuesday that an earth tremor reported at Timmins had not registered on the observatory seismograph tremor may have been very local and small or it may have resulted from a one official said was not strong enough to register Police at Timmins said a tremor enough to shake the town was felt there early Tuesday Gold mines officials in the said t'-ere had been no rock-falls in their workings inters Dispute (Continued on Pagt 151 AP) A date in federal court and new'qegotia-tiops with United States soft-coal operators today confronted John Lewis and his United Mine Workers On top of that they had a weekend deadline to meet on whether to accept president Truman's proposal to appoint a fact-finding board in the eight-month-old coal dispute with tha miners to go back to full production for 70 days The court appointment wss be- fore Federal Judge Richmond Keech to hear a complaint by General Counsel Robert Denham of the National Labor Relations Board that Lewis has been guilty of an unfair labor practice The complaint is based on charges that in decreeing a three-day work' week'- in the mines Lewis and the UJJW were trying to bring pressure to force an illegal contract and were not bargaining collectively Thera was some speculation in advance that (he court might delay action! especially since Lewis is to 'renew contract negotiations with northern ami western operators late today The miners and the operators meanwhile showed no great haste about replying to Truman's proposal that- the disputants submit fact- they give him their replies by 5 pm EST Saturday He asked for the resumption of normal opal production for 70 days beginning Monday during which the board would' study the case and report The findings would net -be binding on either side Most of the miners have been on a three-day week under orders Many of then) however have not been at all for weeks As a result coal- production is low and there have been many complaints of a real emergency At Johnstown Pa coal-miners in the central Pennsylvania fields said they thought most of the unionists would go back to work under a -presidential truce- if Lewis tells them to The miners have been inter Aerial guard Unes backed by jet fighter planes and anti-aircraft weapons are being set up around the major atomic plants in the United State Other precautions obviously aimed against a possible one-way air attack are being taken to guard 200 miles of mb off the Atlantic coast from Maine to Norfolk Va (In Ottawa government officials Mid they knew of no move to institute similar regulations In Canada The atomic energy project at Chalk River OntH 100 miles northwest of Ottawa Is a prohibited area for aircraft) The dcjence department which disclosed these moves Tuesday Mid program will be expanded to other areas at equipment and personnel are available at appropriate The department stressed that the program is part of long-range air defence planning and related to any specific international However announcement of the moves came within 24 hours after Defence Secretary Louis Johnson said in his first annual report to congress that attack could By NORMAN ALTSTEDTER LAKE SUCCESS NY Nationalist top delegate to the United Nation today steps down from presidency of tha security council but remains in the spotlight Dr Tsiang 55-year-old professor-diplomat was council president for January under a system of alphabetical rotation During that period the question of China's representation plunged the UN into its gravest crisis Russia's walkouts protesting nationalist China's presence thus far has spread to 1 1 UN groups But Tsiang has Indicated he will fight bitterly to stop communist China from taking over hit UN seat Switch of the council presidency to Alberto I Alvarez of Cuba can only partly relieve the diplomatic embarrassment In the council where five members recognize red China and six still back the nationalist government on Formosa The complications of the situation are exemplified in the fact organization of civil-air defence i finding board-programs in Individual states 1 i Truman yesterday asked their rases to a -presidential change in temperatures morning arouud zero lhat.