uy . last year, Special to The Dally News 2 VANCOUVER (@ — Revenues} —WWW. spurted . upwards. but higher wage-and depreciation .bils left Canadian National Railways with a 1959 deficit of $43,600,- 000, the publicly-owned railway reported today. Trans-Canada Air Lines re- ported a 72 per cent decline in ily, Published at Canada’ s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest Telephone 6767 j Me LE b 2 y ieee ror BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS from Prince Rupert, arrived at’ Van- couver Airport Tuesday afternoon to compete in’ the four-day Inter-High tournament which will decide the finest high. school team-in-the province.’ Winners of thd Nor thwest: Zone playoffs, 26- game mara- thon, which began ‘at..10:30 Wednesday... “morning, Pictured as: Prince Rupert is ‘taking. part- in’ the 16-team, they stepped: off the: Canadian Pacific ° “Airliner: are » bottom): -Doti. Hartwig, ¢ . “Martin: Bill MacLeod: MIKE™ ‘Lemon: Dave. Allen; Bruce Mitchells -and: Dick Specht. IN VICTORIA.) Police carry ‘shotguns . where the two were holed up at ‘of happy weekend motoring. ‘7: depart- |’, pe . the jne- could, list some “of his griev-| 4to. drive with caution PRINCE RUPERT, BC., TH NASHVILLE, Tenn;: Rivera, 25, who is serving. 40. years on an... armed robbery. charge, told.a reporter in a.tele-| phone interview that he ‘would | surrender, if officials would re- lease his partner Ferra, serving life for robbery, or if 25- -year.old ‘Ferra would agree to surrender. Rivera-came. ous of the room | Highway condition — fair, poor 7 : Roan ‘conditions in the dist- rict this morning give little hope Provincial highways ment reported - today. that... Prince Rupert to Terrace section |! is “fair with rough. and muddy. sections.” Motorists are advised at slide} areas. A 24-hour patrol is being — miles east. of Prince Rupert... The Terrace’ to Pacific section 4 ee * maaway 16 Me seized in Nashville prison op ‘Shortly before noon today. maintained over. soft sections 20 Ii: URSDAY, MARCH 24, 1960 AP)—Robert Rivera, ‘one of two hardened convicts who seized 16 hostages in the Tennessee state penitentiary Wednesday noon, agreed today to the surrender:of the hostages. Raymond Farra agr eed to dicuss it with authorities. . The ‘other, tht 40: 20 a.m. (PST). -He agreed to is part in surrendering the hos- ages and started trying to ‘Der- suad Ferra to join him. i A little later a lawyer went ‘in to see Ferra, who agreed to talk jater. with officials. ; ‘+ Rivera agréed to his ‘part in anner, agreed to ‘publish:: ‘the urrendered. = One hostage was ‘released Earlier Rivera had said: “We-can hold out here a long ‘time. We won't hurt the women | unless we.are rushed. -We have- ‘n't cursed the ‘women... We can -before it’s over but wecan wait.” Rivera asked to talk to one re-. orter ona pool’ arrangement so jarices. The convict then listened ton’ an -extension phone: while a n“trusty,” - held . among: the hos- htages, . relayed them. ‘said ‘Rivera's complaints ‘included: =: 4 The “trusty” | the proposal after Charley Moss; | pxecutive editor of. the. Nashville if convict’s | statement; when’ they 7 wait... We might be awful skinny |. Night Calis—-Business 6768, Editorial 6769 . Ue wen de Aa nee Be yecaee NOVI TA ROVINCIAN, LIBRARY VICTORIA, B. C. PRICE TEN CENTS. _ \ RSS SSNS SOS SSS OAV AAAAAAAMVAWBAABAAHW SON SNS c a .; SSN NN SS ores SSS SSS SS RENAN NM SNS SSNS S ent & ‘Procedures of the parole board, of.the northern ‘trans-provincial |, : Léserve £0. -of those.: n° “essential busi ” Highways ‘depatimeént’ officials = have. advised that the Terrace: “to. ‘Lakelse: highway is in-very poor condition, with, use restricted {to “omergency traffic only.” ae Wednesday's road report cov- ering the Pacific ~to Prince George sections indicated: pave- lis . .reported | as: -being., ough with: ithe prison. merit-system,‘lack: of ‘proper. medical. attention, . sani- Rivera then: perm ted ae) the hostages, lawyer’ Byro “Be to. speak. to: the* reporter: - caught... -while © visiting * “B. “client; said ‘the. two. convicts were - hold- Jing 18) hostages, including: five a “trusties.” ' Previous reports — placed - ‘the number at. nine and then. correéc- net revenies, giving competi- tion from the new trans- continental service of Canadian Pacific, Airlines as one reason. ‘The publicly-owned airline re- ported net income of $152,554 : + Ex-city man G. R. Place dies. in. T errace retired : city carpenter, George Ransom Placo, died Tucs- day night inthe. Terrace’) and|’ District Hospltal,/Te> was 60. Mr, Place camo to Prince Rup-! rb in 1013 from his birth place, jn Vancouver and was employed | as a fisherman, ®) carpenter for VICTORIA (CP)— to curb crime outbreak ment “good to fair.” Some grav- tions. commissioner Keith Hamp- British Columbia lower mainland, The wction, endorsed by Mayor | cect srr ee Percy Scurrah, follows about @! last weeks. dozen reported break-ins in the violent, robberies or hold-ups, G. C. Mitchell They and checking after-midnight drivers in an effort to curb an outbreak of crime blamed on thugs from the There have been no streets with revolvers under fsh- One or lumberjack overalls. say there detinitely is a elled sections ae oven and | ton said’ late Wednesday. night OQHee area euPppyino «& “ey muddy with soft sections tt ere wer 16. =. Police are carrying shotguns Fifty per cent load restrie- that there were on certain sections of the high- way, whereby vehicle opcrations have been restricted to maxi- mums of 50 per cent of 18,000 pounds for single axle weight and 50 per cent of 32,000 pounds ane tree | saya Fema, {for tandem axle weight, High- I hold shoueane med ween ways Department officlals have M tt d l knees | ve ise crs, fellow wf indicated that failure to comply any d en | eons eee arse Ow lel with restrictions may result in Neers are rowmime tne GQWeb) dig closure of the highway to all truck ‘traffic. ‘ teeta 4 2 tere seer pen te Peete: ame tions have been placed in effect |] Hone vison in Venice suggested VENICE (—Venice is shaping up as the major port of cal] on Princess Margaret's honeymoon cruise. Buckingham Palace announc- funeral rites “A large crowd of relatives and friends ‘gathered: at the First Presbyterlan Chureh Wednes- day afternoon to pay their last Mitchell ,and Currie Ltd. and: later was hired as a city enr- penter, He workod for tho city pntil July Insh year when ho rellred and moved to Terrace, An ardont ‘sports Nshorman |. find member of the Prince Rup- “orb Rod and’ Gun? Club, Mr, "place, spont nearly ovory ‘weok- . ond angling. ” Survivors — inelude Wis) wife Ontherine, a soi: Charles and three grundehiidean,, all of ‘Tor- eye, “" Runeral services “are sot for! “Baturday ab 2 pam. from tho Bl, Matthew's Anglican church 4n Terrace with Archdeacon ©, ‘A, Hinchiiffo officiating, oan gms seen. - Firemen cailed were enled to extinguish a burn= ing chesterfield at 4:08 pm. yous ‘torday to 580 Sixth. Avenue Banat. . mirenven site the enusb of the fre was cie to a clgnvat falling off an ashtray ne holng une nol leod. ~ORMES | “DRUGS: LTD. DIAL ! 21 a | wold, Prine Raper Where Dopartment respects to . well-known — clby, businessman George Cowle Mit- ichall who died March 1 wt the! {age of 66, Rev, I, 8. Gamble officlated at the service during which the hymns - "Unto: the Hills" and “Sun of My Soul” were. sung, Mrs, B, J. Smith was organist. Ushors were Froderlak Con- rd, John McLeod and Haddon, Active pallboarors, wore CG, 8, Tikina, W. J, Scotl, A. HH Ogilvie, B, ‘Donald Forward, . Dr, J, A, MacDonald, . and _ Orme, “ . Stuart, “ od ‘ D. Johnston, John Cur- rio, B. J, Sintth, W. D, Smith, T, B. Black and Howard Trig Interment followed “in the family plo ot tho, Mairview vomotory. 9 ne Danish freighter James Honornry puilbearers ‘Includ=|- _|leaves with grain} VLA officer here March 27 WwW, Dd. Grant, | now, hardened type of criminal working in the city. FROM VANCOUVER “Mayor Seurral said police ire taking every measnre lumuanly possible too combat the crime wave belleved Lo be instigated by wbout 50 known crimingds with Vincouver brekgrounds, ~ Pollee said some of them are drug addicts who fled Vancou- ver's underworld in a police crack-cown there, World News Briefs PARIS W—Nikitu Khrushchev and Charles de CGuulle ‘gob: down to tholr first serious private talks today, with the Soviet promier expected to press again for a Moscow- ~Parls axls bo replace Mrance’s growing ee with Wost Germany. ay + GUNEVA m—Dologatox of: tha ‘Soviot-bloc.and ‘the: North ’ Atlantic Treaty powers tontatively: pgreed today on alx ‘Initial tron | for. the control of ‘an Enst-West disarmament VON, , ‘ it was announced today. VLA settlements | ar ype! te ‘hh JOHANNESBURG (Now flareups broke oul Wednesday night In the’ bly Nyanga Negro settlement now Capetown, but thore was no Indication of a reaumplion of the bloody ots of Monday'and Tuesday that loft mare than 70 Nogrocs ‘doad Crom. polles bullats,: Tho South African governmont lodiy banned all mectings by: persons . of. wy mee in bhreo main urban gontron ntl June 30," wah egal or | Bie ge . TORONTO (HT Intornntional Brotherhood of Loco- alive Wiremen and Bnginemon - may lose 6,000 Ounndian mombors if Ji doosn’t agreo to allaw o- adparnto Canndian construction super visor and settlement officer for the Veterans Land Act will be In the élby March 27 and 28, Persons wishing to have an ine terview with Mr. Grant about propose building, may get in touch wit him at the Prince Rupert Hotol. . Tho MV Potor Nicolson sailed wt noon today for Donmark with _ diviston within the mnlon. 8,600 long tonx of No. 4 food . ¥ ¢ ed yesterday that the Queen had loaned the royal yacht Brit- aunnia to her sister and: Antony Armstrong-Jones for their trip after their wedding. But Brit- ish newspapers say Ttaly’s. Tro- mantic elty of canals and: gon- dolns Is a likely destination, - The manager of Venice's Gritt Palace Hotel said’ a member. of d, Queon Mother EBlizaboth's house- h' hold) had tentatlyely . reserved the hotel's royal suite for some time In May. He: added that the exact date was not: fixed, and he was not informed that. the princess and. her: husband might use the suite. . Princess Margaret stayed an the hotel's four-room royal suite when she visited Venice in 1040. — weermnricmereel . Damage slight _jin‘truck mishap Damage “wus reported as Hogligible when a truck belong- 1, S0-foot ‘bunk beside the Bay- 0:85 pm, yeatorday, fled, ho did not know who was/ros- ponatblo for, modding with, me Ing to Hydo Transfer rolled over view Hote] on Sacond: Btroot ab ROMP sald that womeono' | ind apparently jorked ‘the’ parked’ vehicle out of gour and: then . Driver: of the | truck’ ‘Tunnes |’ Skinner. who. was’ nat: ‘present nt tho timo of the accidont,:sald barley. Tho Dawah (tloghtor arrived at the Oannadian» Govornmont olevator here on Maroh 17 from Portland, Orogon, Sho waa tho fourth ship.to take on a cnrrgo of grain at the olevator. alyoo : if ft the first of the yonr, > . *, * 1 RISTO BrOa Tere Cart a a OTTAWA H—'Tha: gkOVornMoNt was! “uungud Wodosclay Lo anal wound for some. way of transporting Hal Banks, hoad of the Canndian branch of the Bonfarora’ Tntornationi Union, out of the country, ' +: woe WINDBOR,. ont, dP--Manitoba Promlor Duit ‘Roblin ald hore Wodnosday he soos: no yonson for Wot Lake acoming 9 ghost town if a nuclonr, rosoar In Manitoba, . oe ral ‘Atotion ts built: ‘8 ‘planned OS at Be) ~ Prince: Tupert ie now gone. 486 days without. ‘fatal: trattic)| WOK, ey RRS SSNS SRN Sef STAND es teeters :. Government. sources declined to make, any direct comment. But’; they clearly indicated that the? provincial cabinet, from Premier . Bennett down, not happy about the offer: . An outright: grant from Ottawa had been: expected to help fi- nance the joint project which could boast. a'maximum of close to $1,400,000,000: for the full de- velopment. of the river. The federal government has beon ex- pected to shoulder about 50 per cent of the cost. The federal proposal is said to involve a loan of between 500 mulion and 700 million dollars which would be loaned to B.C, at is ing money market rate. ‘The federal provincial nego- tiation financlng have been go- ing on abreast of Canadian-U'S, international: nogotiations on deyolopmont of the river, now are proceoding on tho basis of: Canada getting a 60 per cont return in downstream , bonefits on power produced In ‘tho U8, from water. stored behind Cana~ dian daimgeu Lands: Minigtor RG, Williston and Attorney ‘Gonoral Robort Bonner aro. axpectod to take the B.C, government's answor to Ot- tawa wher thoy go to the capital to. atleand: a: alison commititos meoling Marely 20. t0 380. | : “oti ‘donatio: | bert; ‘Morv: manly, und. t yd: the 5 500 ‘mark ‘Doposlt ) front nity Of the Moos, $50: fi the Royal: Purp! nymous.. donors he Post’ ‘Ottloa, 8st hg ean alco tho, doposlts lated, \ “Candidian Press state Writer - VICTORIA (oP) — Fk ederal government: hag offered. British hige loan‘at just above the going money .market. yatesrather than, an: outright | ‘Colunthi — praut—as:Ottawa’s share of the proposed billion ‘dollar. hydro-power develop- ” ment of: the Columbia river, it was learned:today.. : eo ‘BONUS GAME OPERATORS FACE — “LOTTERY CHARGES APRIL 5~ VANCOUVER. (CP)—Hearing ‘into ‘charges under the lottery section of the Criminal ' Code against Shop-Kasy Stores (B. C.) ‘Limited was! “set ‘Ya of one per cent above the go-: The International negotintions | fmonbe cee | Rosa Macdonald’ said the: com- Wednesday for April 5, | ' The food retail: chain, Sheardown, and 12 store gaine. Derereresos OTTAWA O—A Senate com- mittee studying government measures to give . ‘the federal franchise ‘to all ‘Canada’s In- dinans considered today an am- endment to make it “abundantly clear” they will not have to givo up any ancient rights. | Howover, tho altting was. ad- journed following the suggestion of: government: leader Walter Aselstine . (PO Baskatchowan) | ~ that the commitica hear: from Citizenship. Minister Fairclough before. dealing on tho ‘amend- The amondmont was. proposed by. Bonator David . Oroll (Le Ontario), y Sonate “Oppoxltion Louder. w. mittee: should: “make it. abund-~ O-lantly. cloar what wo'are: ‘doing 7 : regarding ‘tho, doglelatio its president, Wilbur Gq s managers in. Vandoyvel: have been charged i in 1 connection with ; a bonus sors, rane Ve to Senate to make: it “dear... “Indians not losing rights * os " Newt $: It was around. this last ie . gory that. most of the: discus. sion turned. Lo REE Bonator. Macdonald sald, Indians: are worried abo ing given the vote been are afrald they would lop of thoi rights, Thoy fe government should pu bt promise that tholr rightey bo protected," diang who: had ‘aligned, i) order to vote would lonsed from them after MEASULOS, cmne. into, @ sc mo. i ee Tha present “menaures ata shot: specifically state that thosestne e ya¥Qe ‘ WEATHER ‘in wore ao thie southwest.20° this’. Sheen AAT ~ Cloudy Priday, Littlanohange - Low: tonight ‘ands hi re day 8 87 and ae ihe ee tating. : {norornpo. of $200 | wl wor last tabu caching: Q1-—-war: a4: arn ‘and: thelr, wives, Indians iy nthe: Mukon ‘and Northwest, t Ter \ | ritorles ‘whore tt . Off; reservations, those. 1n