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Show TEMPERATURES 41 St'Portlui ,, 11 41 SllButt ..... at It 44 S4lYUewtM IS 14 41 It I Denver ... 41 1 t 44 St. Louis . 4t Jl St 44 Chlcnto . SI If TS 31 WnahUiKton 41 J4 41 $Nw -rk St 14 SI StlMUnd .... l 4S CLOUDY today and Friday with sitcnaW temperatures 45 and law Friday morning II. ; Skit Lake , Of .... Logan ... ft- Grg . if vr - Phoenix - . ta AncalM Sj fraa. . SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 134 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS ir Lcina Die In Cdifornia Crash ofDC-3 6 Adults, 3 Children All Californians, Victims of Air Tragedy . VALLEJO, CaU Dec. 8 (U.R) A ground party today reached the wreckage of a DC-S non-scheduled airliner which crashed into a low hillside hill-side last night during a rain storm and reported all nine persons aboard were dead. Air force rescuers, highway patrolmen and Solano county deputies said f they : found bodies of six adults and three children in the- charred fuselage fuse-lage of the plane. All of the passengers were Californians. V MARTINEZ, Cal., Dec 8 lU.R) A coast guard rescue plane today sighted the burn- ' ing wreckage of a DC-3 airliner, air-liner, missing since last night with seven persons aboard. There were no signs of life .in the wreckage, the rescue plane radioed. , Lt Jerry K. Rea of the coast guard, flying an amphibian rescue res-cue plane, said he spotted the wreckage 4 miles southeast of Napa, about 10 miles due north of Vallejo on the northeastern nd of San Francisco Bay. v He said he could clearly see the ' number of the non-scheduled airliner air-liner NC 60256. "" Rea reported one wing and the tail section of . the plane were intact but the fuselage was burned. Disappeared In Storm The airliner, owned ; by" ; Cali- . fornia Arrow Airways of Bur-bank, Bur-bank, disappeared in a rainstorm on ; a i scheduled , 30-minute hop from Oakland to Sacramento, 90 miles away. . Rea said the plane bit a low hill and that . wreckage was , strewn over a considerable areai v v He first reported the position .of the wreckage in degrees and minutes and originally Contra Costrriounty shtfr-office , thought - Rea had sighted the plane, near Facheco, in contra Costa county. Instead, the plane , actually crashed across the Car-.quinez Car-.quinez straits in Solano county.' The airline would not release the names of the three crewmen and four passengers aboard. . Also missing in the same general gen-eral area was another plane, carrying car-rying only the. pilot,, which was overdue on i flight from Glen-dale Glen-dale to Hamilton Field. The search was concentrated on Franklin Canyon last night after ranchers reported hearing the motors of a plane droning at low altitude over the low hills. Mercury Drops To 15 Below In Midwest By UNITED PRESS A mass of arctic air plum meted temperatures to IS below zero on the western plains today and sent bone-chilling , winds whistling from the Great Lakes to the East coast. The frigid air rode south across the Canadian border . on two storm centers, one that, cut across Canada through New ' England and onto the Atlantic and another that was moving into North Da kota today. The eastern storm left five per sons dead in Canada as it laid a blanket of snow 18 inches deep in some areas. New England counted seven - dead with a lesser snow fall. Most victims died on slip pery highways. The chill wave dashed the hopes of New York officials who were waiting for warmer, weather to melt the snow on watersheds and fill reservoirs depleted by a long drought. The water shortage was so acute that officials ordered all automobile washing stopped and warned that rationing would be put into effect at the end of the month unless New Yorkers cut consumption drastically. Skies were clear over most of the area hit by the cold but gusty winds in the region from Chicago to New York hit speeds up to 30 miles an hour. Inside the Herald Faxes A Central Utah Vital Statistics 3 Deaths 6 News Briefs 3 Sports , .12-12 'Women's Features 14-15 Editorial ... 2 See. 2 Radio Program 2, See. 2 Merry-Go-Round 2, See 2 Comics ...... .... 3, Seei.' 2 Classified ......... 4-5, See. 2 I V ! ' ,. THE GUEST COULDN'T EAT Acting President of the Chinese Nationalists Li Tsung-Jen and Mrs. Li chat with Albert Chow, "mayor of San Francisco's Chinatown, at a banquet given in Li's honor on his arrival from Hongkong. President Li was delighted to the hearty welcome, but was unable to partake of the banquet as he is suffering from stomach ulcers. The Nationalist leader, who is en route to New York for medical treatment, said his visit was "purely unofficial." Incumbents Defeated In Nebo, Alpine School Board Races; Murdock Wins Post In Provo Two school board incumbents were ousted and a third returned to office for a five-year term as Nebo, Alpine, and Provo school districts held elections Wednesday. In the Nebo district, LeGrande Smith, incumbent, was ousted by Lowell J. Crabb, Spanish Fork. The Alpine Grove, Highland; and Alpine, ant Grove defeating an incumbent, Junius West. Provo elected Ray Murdock, who defeated three other candidates. Mr. Murdock has been serving the past five months by appointment. Polling far more votes- than the combined total received by the other three candidates, Ray jMnrdock, Provo businessmanwas. elected a member of the Provo school board Wednesday, . - Mr. Murdock. who has served oh the board since July by ap pointment, received 337 votes. Mrs. Cleo .Thatcher was second with 84 votes. J. Betty Jones received re-ceived 25 votes and Paul M. White nine. One ballot was spoiled. The vote was considered light In ' view of the total polling strength of 2752 registered voters in Municipal Ward 3 (northwest Provo which elected the new board member. - However, it was the heaviest school board election in years in Provo. Five , years ago when Ward 3 had Its last election, only 48 votes were cast, according to Harold J. Boyack, clerk of the board. Bert Crane, who was re elected that year, was unopposed. Mr. Murdock was named to the board when Mr.- Crane moved from the area last July. Wednesday's voting was conducted con-ducted at the Timpanogos school. SPANISH FORK Lowell J. Crabb, Spanish Fork business man and civic leader, was elected to the Nebo school district board of education for a five-year term Wednesday. Mr. Crabb defeated two other candidates by polling 815 votes. LeGrande Smith, Incumbent school board president, received 280 votes, while R. H. Andrus polled 204 votes. The voting by districts, which include Spanish Fork, Leland and Palmyra, follows: Spanish Fork, 176 for Andrus, 555 for Crabb and 257 for Smith; Leland, 25 for Andrus, 42 for Crabb and 11 for Smith; Palmyra, 3 for An drus, 18 for Crabb and 12 for Smith. In Spanish Fork the total vote cast was 1005. There were 16 spoiled ballots, with 13 cast for Crabb. Judges were Jack Swen-son, Swen-son, Mrs. Hortense Argyle and Mrs. Hazel Thomas. PLEASANT -GROVE Clifton R. Clark, Pleasant Grove, was elected to the Alpine school board from Precinct 2 of the district Wednesday when he garnered 272 votes out of 511 votes cast by citizens of three communities, Pleasant Grove, Highland and Alpine. Al-pine. Other candidates for the office included Junius West, incumbent, and Lawrence Atwood. All three Youth Flashes SALINAS, Cal., Dec. 8 (U.R) James Allison Price, 16-year-old son of a member of the Salinas school board, was sought by police today for holding up his mother at gunpoint gun-point and escaping in the family auto after threatening to kill her if she called police. A. J. Price, wealthy retired re-tired businessman, reported to Police Chief George C Weight that his son, who was described as "troublesome," leveled a pistol at his mother Tuesday night and told her: w who won easily in voting at election centered at Pleasant with Clifton R. Clark of Pleas are residents of Pleasant Grove. Mr. Atwood netted 163 votes in the total count and Mr. West 76. ni Pleasant Grovja-voters cast 456 of the 511 total votes. Breakdown of Pleasant Grove ballots follows: Clark, 249; Atwood, 145; West, 62. Mr. Atwood led the vote In Alpine Al-pine with 16 votes out of 38cast Mr. West gained 12 votes and Mr. Clark 10. ' Two votes eath were cast for Atwood and West in Highland's 17 votes. The remaining 13 votes were for Clark. Clifton R. Clark has been a merchant in Pleasant Grove for many years. The school board contest is the first political race (Continued on Page Two) Communists To Release 2 Captive Yanks SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 8 (U.R) The United States embassy today disclosed plans to accept the transfer of two captive American Amer-ican Marshall plan officials from the North Korean Communists, An embassy announcement said senior embassy attache Harold J. Noble would be at a designated border point between North and South Korea, to receive them on Sunday. Two aides will accompany accom-pany him. Noble also will carry credentials from U. S. Ambassador Ambassa-dor John J. Muccio authorizing him to carry out the transfer. The captive Americans, Albert E. Willis of Brooklyn, N. Y and Alfred T. Meschter of Kinder-hook, Kinder-hook, N. Y., have been held in Communist - dominated North Korea for two and one-half months. They were taken there when an American freighter loaned to the non-Communist South Korean government was sailed north by its Korean crew, which mutinied. The Americans were abroad as advisers. Radio Pyong Yang, voice of the Communist - controlled government, govern-ment, said the Americans would be released only to an authorized authoriz-ed American official opposite the village of Yohyun, 40 miles from here. American officials went ahead with their plans to receive the captives on fne belief that the Communist offer was genuine. Gun On Mother; "I want your money and the car keys." The Price boy was accompanied accom-panied by two other youths, named in an all-points police' bulletin as Ben . Franklin Fink, Jr., 16, and Jerry Martin, Mar-tin, 16, both classmates of Price at Salinas Union High school. ' The father was not at home at the time of the robbery. He told police his son took $7 from Mrs. Price, collected two shotguns in the house and gave them to his companions. com-panions. As he left, he told -his mother; (Groves Del eeiret UN Votes To Study China's Russ Charges Nationalist Case To Be Kept Alive Before UN Interim Committee FLUSHING, N. Y., Dec. 8 (U.R) The United Nations general assembly decided today to-day to send Nationalist China's charges against Russia Rus-sia and the Chinese Communists Commu-nists to the little assembly for "continuous study and examination" ex-amination" until next year. The assembly decided, by a vote of 32 to 5 with 17 absten tions, to keep the Nationalist case alive before its interim committee commit-tee the little assembly which meets between the annual sessions ses-sions of the full plenary. Policy Approved It also adopted, by a vote of 45 in 5 with no abstentions, the American-d e s i g n e d resolution enunciating a "hands off" policy toward China. This resolution, nnntnrpH hv th United States. Australia, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines, confined itseii to endorsing the right of the Chins Chi-ns nnnli n rhnnM their own ...w f.-wVJ.-v niMrnmnt onH ltrffin? all coun tries to respect existing . treaties relating to China. Prarlrinif hia narliamentarv whip to drive the delegates to ward final adjournment oy tomorrow to-morrow or Saturday, assembly president Carlos P. Romulo immediately im-mediately forced a vote on the question Of Arab refugees from the Palestine war. -h-. By- a voteoi47 to-0fifith-i abstentions, ab-stentions, the assembly approved the establishment of a $54,900,000. 18-month, WPA-type work relief program for. an estimated eaz,uuu refugees from the Holy Land conflict. con-flict. Then Romulo adjourned the assembly as-sembly until tomorrow morning. Th last matnr inane to COItlC be fore the assembly will be the fu ture of Jerusalem. The . reference of the Chinese charges to the little assembly, was regarded as a personal triumph for square-jawed Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, leader of the Nationalist delegation, who presented his case -tenaciously throughout a week of debate which he started with a 27,000-word, three-hour indictment in-dictment of the Soviet Union. Alcoa Signs CIO Contract PITTSBURGH, Dec. 8 (U.R) The Aluminum Company of America and the CIO United Steelworkers have signed a strike-ending pension agreement covering 17,000 employes in nine Dlants. But employes at one plant remained off the job. After three days of negotiations, negotia-tions, Alcoa and the union yesterday yes-terday signed a contract calling for non-contributory pensions with a minimum benefit of $100 a month, non-contributory social inauranre. and a oroeram for ad justment of wage inequities. The Alcoa employes had been on strike for 51 days. The .back-to-work movement hit a m at Alma. Tenn where the- 8.000-member union local unanimously voted against send ing any men back on the jod until un-til the firm nromises to return all the strikers to full working shifts. ECCLES, SNYDER CONFER IN CLOSED MEETING WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.P.) Mariner S. Eccles and Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder talked out their quarrel over gov ernment money policies before a congressional subcommittee today. to-day. But there were no indications indica-tions that they reached an agreement. agree-ment. Escapes In Car "If you notify police in less than 24 hours, we'll come back and kill you." ' The trio escaped in the Price family car, a 1947 Pontiac and they also took with them a gasoline credit card. Police said they believed they were headed for Southern South-ern California, possibly the El Centro area. Price . was unable to explain ex-plain his son's behavior. He said the boy was "hard to handle," but had never before be-fore been m serious trouble. Atomic Data From Wallace Speculators, Hoarders Hurt Coffee' Supply BOCA RATON, Tla., Dec. 8 (U.R) A commerce department depart-ment official said today there probably will be enough coffee to meet demands de-mands next year if housewives house-wives quit hoarding and dealers quit speculating. George W. Muller, chief of the food division of the department's de-partment's office of international interna-tional trade, blamed the recent re-cent rapid increase in coffee prices on both consumers and the coffee industry. Actual shipments of coffee cof-fee to the United States during the first nine months of 1949 were seven per cent higher than those of the similar period last year. Unless Un-less there is a big increase in consumption, he said, this higher volume should compensate com-pensate for slightly lower imports expected early in 1950. Chiang, Cabinet In Flight To Formosa Island HONG KONG. Dep. R MM Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek ana tne Chinese Nationalist Cabinet todav fled the mainland of China and established their new seat of government on the island fortress of Formosa. Chians left Chenetu this morn ing in his personal plane as Communist Com-munist forces closed in on the Nationalists' last mainland capital capi-tal from three directions. Communist Com-munist capture of Chehgtu was expected in a day" of two. The cabinet, meet in In in -r traordinary session last night. agreea 10 remove tne seat oi government from Chengtu to Formosa. It also created two guerrilla headquarters to command com-mand all military operation on the mainland. Position Collapses One of the headauarters was established at Sichang, capital of remote Sikang province in the mountains of far western China. The entire Nationalist 'position in southwest China rollanseri along with the defense of Chang- tu. Nationalist officials fled Kunming, Kun-ming, capital of Yunnan province, and left the city in the hands of provincial army men who were reported ready to join the Com munists. At the same time two of Chiang's closest advisers revealed that the Nationalist government has prepared plans to draft For-mosans For-mosans of fighting age to protect the former Japanese island against Communist assault. The advisers also disclosed that the Nationalists plan to abandon the mainland of China except for a token force of government of ficials, who will seek to function somewhere in the barren moun-j tain country of remote Sikang province. Ward, Aids Quit Mukden WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.R) American Consul General Angus Ward and his staff, being ex-; pelled from Communist China, were scheduled to arrive at. Tientsin about noon today, the state department reported. The American freighter Lakeland Lake-land Victory is speeding to Tient-i sin to pick up the group. The state department's report on Ward's progress toward Tient-i sin came from U. S. consul at! Tientsin, Alfred T. Wellborn. j xirfKtn v-kXT- ta o n d ! The Chinese Communist radio; said today that Angus Ward,; American consul general, and his, staff left Mukden by train Wed-j nesday for Tientsin. The Communist broadcast said the journey from Mukden to Tientsin probably would take about two days. That would put the Americans: in Tientsin possibly by Friday,; or allowing for a late Wednesday . departure, perhaps Saturday. The radio gave no further details de-tails of the departure of Ward and the party accompanying him out of Communist China. TO DISCUSS HIGHWAYS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.R) Officials of the federal bureau of public roaBs scheduled a meeting meet-ing today wth Gov. John W. Bonner of Montana to discuss development de-velopment of northwestern highways. ilberately Levis Shuns Parley With Claims "Additional Companies" Come To Terms With Mine Union NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (U.R)- John L. Lewis stayed away from contract negotiations with big anthracite com panies today to sign up more soft coal operators who have agreed to his demands for a 95 cent-a-day-wage increase., The United Mine Workers chief capitalized on his strengthened position to disregard the hard coal producers' request that he call off his three-day work week de cree. Most of the union's 480,000 members were to quit the mines and not return until Monday. . Lewis announced in Washing ton that "additional companies" will sign what he referred to as the "basic bituminous coal wage agreement." He indicated that he was too busy negotiating con tracts with individual companies to return to New York to Join in negotiations with hard coal producers pro-ducers who employ 78,000 miners. 7,340,000 Tons Signed ' Unidentified companies in Ken tucky, Ohio and Illinois, produc ing a total of more than 5,000,000 tons of coal a year, accepted the contract terms yesterday, Lewis said. With the operators signed Tuesday, that placed the total at some 7,340,000 tons yearly pro duction under the new contract. Although these operators rep resent less than two percent of tpt soft coal Industry's total production, produc-tion, Lewis indie ted that they id rtet a pattern" which the entire industry must accept. Sceff at Agreements However, most major producers continue to scoff at Lewis' negotiations ne-gotiations with the small com panies and voted they would go without a contract rather than accept conditions which would raise the price of coal. The terms of the UMW's con tract with the . small bituminous producers were: 1. A basic wage increase from $14.05 to $15.00 a day and return to the five-day week Immedi ately. 2. A 15-cent-a-ton increase in industry payments to the union's welfare and retirement fund, bringing payments to 35 cents a ton. 3. Retention of the eight-hour portal-to-portal work day. 4. Retention of the controversial "willing and able" clause which gives Lewis power to call "quickie" strikes and shorter work weeks. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. 8 (U.R) The president of the Union Pacific Coal company called today to-day for an end to the three-day work week in Wyoming coal mines. I. N. Bayless of Omaha said that limits on working time should be removed "as quickly as possible because of the demand for coal made when there is the threat of a severe storm at any time." Wyoming was hardest hit of western states in the paralyzing blizzards of last winter. Bayless asked for a quick return re-turn to a full production schedule sched-ule following a two-day session of negotiation with District 22 officials of-ficials of the United Mine Workers. Work-ers. Houston Martin, president of the district, said he hoped for an early settlement but added the dispute would be handled by the UMW policy committee in Washington. Wash-ington. SHAH OF IRAN IS EXPERT SKIER SUN VALLEY, Ida., Dec. 8 (U.R) The shah of Iran today went skiing down the steep slopes of Sun Valley's boulder basin and his skill got a ready okeh from one of the world's top ski experts. Big Operators Gas Line Explosion Starts Million Dollar Fire Damage CENTRALIA, Mo., Dec. 8 (U.R) A panhandle eastern gas pipeline pipe-line exploded several miles from here today causing a fire Which did an estimated $1,000,000 damage. dam-age. The explosion occurred about 100 yards from a pumping station at 4:45 a. m. The fire still was burning two .hours later. Centralis Cen-tralis police reported that no one was injured. A spokesman for the company said the fire was still "too hof'i to determine the cause of the ex-1 mm Chief of Wartime Atomic Bomb Project In Favor Of Exploring Jordan Charges By W. R. HIGG1NBOTHAM WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves; chief of the wartime A-bomb project, said today he deliberately delib-erately withheld several secret reports on atomic development develop-ment from former vice president Henry A. Wallace during the war. He made the statement in an interview when' asked to-clarify to-clarify his testimony before the house unAmerican activi ties committee concerning i TESTIFIES Lieut. Gen. Leslie R. . Groves, wartime atomic chief testifying in Washington before the House committee on un-American activities, said that he learned within a month after he became chief of the A-bomb project that Russian spiea were trying to steal U. ;,. . 8. atomic- secrets. , Strike Ends At Oak Ridge As 2,750 Return OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 8 U.E Construction workers "of all trades" returned to work today, apparently ending a three-day wildcat strike which had idled 2,750 men and halted a multi- muuon - aoiiar expansion pro gram at this atomic center. An official of the Maxon Con struction company, which Is building two new uranium-235 production plants which had been closed by the strike, said every craft at work before the walk off was represented todav. C. A. Budnik. supervisinK ensrl neer for Maxon, said a check of gates to the "secret" controlled production area was being made to determine the exact number of returned workers. Vote To Return Some, workers, he said, apparently appar-ently hadn't received word that union officials had voted a back to-work movement, r Business agents of the 10 AFL craft unions involved in the walkout, meeting with federal conciliator E. E. Hitchcock, voted last night "to make every effort to persuade their members to go i i . . . i DtcK w worn. The apparent break in the work stoppage, which crippled. all new construction at this birthplace birth-place of the atomic bomb, came a short time after the atomic en ergy commission's standing labor panel stepped into the dispute Apparently the panel's offer to confer "in the very near future" with the unions regarding the basic issues of the walkout satisfied satis-fied the union representatives and brought about a settlement formula. A spokesman for the panel in New York said last night that it had received assurances from the unions involved that their members would be back at work today. plosion. The pipeline, which is eight to ten feet underground blew a hole in the earth about 25 feet around. Two nearby cooling towers burned down. He said, and the main engine room which Is on the pipeline was damaged as were several other buildings. , Persons calling from five to ten miles away reported that the blast shook windows in their homes or that they heard the explosion early this morning. ! ft ',7 V Meld Russian attempts to spy out U. S. atomic secrets in 1943 and 1944. Groves had testified that Wallace, Wal-lace, who bolted the Democratic party last year to run for presi dent as the left-wing Progressive party's candidate, only saw one of about five secret atomic reports which were distributed among a limited group of the highest ranking rank-ing officials. He did not elaborate. Explains Decisions , " .Interviewed later at the army-navy army-navy club. Groves was asked why the other reports were not shown to WaUace. "Throughout my conduct of tha Manhattan project, my decisions were based on , what I thought were the best interest! of the United States," the general said. "I decided I wasn't going to show any more reports to Mr. Wallace." Asked if that meant he decided it would be against the best in terests of the country for Wallace to see the documents, Groves replied: re-plied: "I don't see how anything could be more positive than what I said before." ' Pressed for a more detailed explanation, ex-planation, he added: "Our objective in the Manhattan Manhat-tan project was to save American lives by shortening the war. Many security hazards were deliberately de-liberately taken to accomplish this goaL but . no : unnecessary, recognizable hazards were . ever taken." - . " ;;;; ; i: '; ; ... Urges Investigation Groves also told the reporter that his testimony should not be construed as completely refuting the story of George Racey Jordan, former army air force major, that suspicious shipments p o u re d through the lend-lease pipeline to Russia during the 1943-44 war years. " v;" He urged the committee te delve into it further, saying: "I think it would be criminal, negligence if Jordan's charges were not explored to the utmost by congress." Radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., who first aired Jordan's Jor-dan's charges, has accused Wallace Wal-lace of putting pressure on some officials to obtain approval of uranium shipments to Russia. At the time, Wallace, as vice president, was a member of Presi- , dent Roosevelt's top policy committee com-mittee to oversee development of the atomic bomb. Wallace has denied Lewis charge and has demanded the right to "meet my traducers face to face" before the house ; committee com-mittee as soon as possible. He notified chairman John S. Wood, D., Ga., that he would be ready to testify either on Monday, Tuesday, Tues-day, or Wednesday of next week. Wood promised to hear Wallace but so far the committee has set no date. Russia Obtained Canadian-Mined Uranium Oxide OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (U.R) Trade Minister C. D. Howe confirmed today that some Canadian-mined uranium oxide was sent to Rus sia In May, 1943. A check of records of the muni tions and supply department and of the Eldorado Mining com pany, at mat time uanaaa s oniy source of uranium, snowed tnat 500 pounds of uranium oxide and 500 pounds of uranium nitrate were sold to the Soviet Union, Howe said. This ore was shipped from the U. S. Air Force base at Great Falls, Mont., on May 22 of that year, he added. Howe thus confirmed what the House un-American Activities committee in Washington had brought out last year in Its investigation in-vestigation of Russian espionage. Former Rep. John McDowell, Pa., then a committee member, had reported It at the time. The committee referred to the shipments ship-ments again this week when it heard former Army Air Force Maj. George Racey Jordan on his charges that atomic secrets were sent to Russia on lend-lease planes via Great Falls, Mont-T while he was an "expediter", there. ' The trade minister, who also ia Canada's atomic supervisor, minimized importance of the shipment. - 'J |