oie oe .™ naan ? a VOL. XLVIII, No, 252 - Se "! Telephone. 6767. ee , DECEMBER 30, ; ers a VANCOUVER (CP)= Police Chief George Arch- er says the force knows of 84 bootlegging establish- ments operating actively in Vancouver: * Listing the. addresses in‘a let- ter to Mayor Tom Alsbury, which the mayor read, :-Tuesday “av a city council meeting, Chief Archer said 44+0f the blind pigs are large scale, with about half of these “very active.” “ There’ are: about 30°: “smaller operations —: operating in‘ hotel | homes . and catering customers and 10-. establishments, rooms. or to known bottle- -delivery | he. said, » The chief's” report came after | published reports that bootieg-! ging joints. were flourishing. Aji. 71 report. was requested by Alder- | -man Frank’ Baker. “,yThe “major establishments, Chief ‘Archer’ reporter, .sct. up . “every |. ‘known. device. to prevent entry elaborate... “places. with ‘or observation. ~ | MOST’. CHARGED: _ & AN. of> the larger. Places had} ' been charged: for: selling | or keep- é ae ing liquor—most. ‘of ‘them’ this} o ‘year, and ‘some, uses, Several times, : - So- ‘tar. in. 1959, Chief “Archer ‘sald? there have ‘been’ 93. charges |: of selling Jiquor.. There were nine charges of keeping liquor. for ‘sale.and 71:persons..were arrest- | 3 ‘ed. for selling or keeping liquor. “Under. the ‘existing law I am satisfied our liquor squad is do- _ ing ‘an excellent job,’ " the chief said. “With the exception of pres- sing for Crown appeals, I see no reason to change, our. pres- ent operation, He: said there have been “no Crown appeals this. year” and suggested changes in liquor leg- islation to make it an offenec to be a found-in. at a known or convicted bootlegging estab- Hshment. — City council decided to get coples of the chief's report for study before .taking any action, Took charity money ROYAL OAK, Mich, (7 —The Royal Oak Township board ‘of trustees has flred five policemen and three firemen who were ac- cused of pocketing money col- lected to buy Christmas ‘gifts for needy children, Among. “those dismissed were Police Capt, Wil- Nam Ware and Fire Cant. Sam- uel Miteliell. WAREHOUSE DESTROYED—Firemen battle. fruitlessly to save a: three- -storey - Warehouse .1rom destruction by flames in ‘east- | Co-Op votes central Montreal. The blaze raged out of. contro! for three hours : and forced evacuation of, 50 families from nearby apartment | not known. buildings. No’ one was injured. ‘and cause of the outbreak was | —CP photo. SAFETY PLEA MADE - New hich The: sudents will be expected | - to be in schoolyat 8:40 a.m. for registration — with slant. by am, . ‘Opening of the school. was settiod yesterday when the board obtained pernussion’ to occupy classes to the school from architects Toby - Canadian drinkers said ” TORONTO «)~-Dr, Gordon Bol) of Toronto, an expert on alcohal- lam, shld Monday most Canad- jans are “stupidly excessive” in thete drinking habits, ok He told a (hree-sday provincial youth conference on aleahol that most Canndians uso drink as “al drug to pvercome tension, paln or Janellness,"” . Thoy over drink because they see gthors doing the same and want to be in style, he sald, Dr, Bell udvisad: people wha wre tonse ar tl ateensa to visit thelr dovtor or olorgyman rae ther: than a. batblo, And. nothing “could bo more stupid” than the old adage that nedrinker can't be helped until he naka for holp,. Most: honyy drinkers are In no condition to eb anes ORMES- DRUGS LTD. ‘DIAL 2151. wert gone “stupidly excessive” roallzo they need help, he said. Dr. Ralph C. Howlett. dir- octor of an alcohol clinic wt Paris, Ont,, told the conference that aleohol broaks down. | the reserve of “wLitf-nockedt" Cun adians at parties and that is one reason thoy’ re socal drink- Ors, “Wo aro an inhibited people and have trouble talking to onch other at gatherings, "So the first thing woe eal for is Nquor—a soclal lubricant.” He said the use of aleohol will. end only Jf the advocates of prohibition prosent cures for emotion’ problems and toll Oranadians how: they can get to~ gothor on a froar basis, "Ws no good just taking awiy the bottle, We have to offer the drinker an alterna tive way of life-one that Moosn't. roquire Uquor" . Prince Rupert has now gone 348 without a fatal traffic accident, PN Fyre yee abe : De my ‘ton, in view of» days | school set. to open on January 4 ~The new $643,000 Prince Rupert Senior High ‘school on Ninth Avenue West will open its doors to ap- proximately 280 students on Monday morning, Jan- uary 4, the District 52 School Boar cl announced toclay, Te te ge tmteneie ee ~ oe er ee err and Russell of ‘Vancouver,’ alter Qa mecting of an architect. and school board representatives, Several small Items within the school have yet to be finished but none of them. will Jnter- fere with school work, During the Christmas holidays equipment, furniture, books and office equipment have been moy- ed down from the former Booth Memorial Junior-Senlor . High school to take its place along. side the new oqudpment tn the shops and classrooms, ‘ The brand new school’: con- tains two commercial rooms, two hone economle roonus, two shops for industrial. arts, two sclanee roums, one. art room, one musle room, a library, linehroom and kitehen and | two. classrooms, The sehool whieh will handio Grados 10, 11 and 12 and Grado 3 Wf necessary, will accommo- dite up to 460 students, -A special safoly plow was made today by prineipal RB, I. Luens and vicespringipal Frank, Sub- tha inetonsed traltie expouted on Ninth Av- enue West, , Mr. Luoas urged parents on Ninth Avenue West to keep thelr children aff the. road, Ho also urged motoriats to take] agave ad the children had: boon used to playing on tho road, 2n t S OROe UR OTE IEnENNN ROTI Chan files suit VANCOUVER @ — Woldon Chan, Wong Kong-born Chinese sought for doportition, fled a clniin in Supreme Court Thoadnay socking hel damnagos from Douglas Jung, Progressive. Con- sorvative member of Parliament } for Vancouver Contro, .. Season opens January 17. regulary ms LE ecentury. ; Power crews “ohlos to. repair the province’s most widespread power break and re- a TY 400: homes, . - fo Officials of the Ontario ‘Hydro- ae Electric . Power Commission: said “most breaks, “| storm, will be repaired: by. .to- : night. oo » |: The. most ‘critical area. was rangeville, ‘40 ‘miles: jwest:» of here, where more than. ‘200 :men ‘aided. by. a helicopter * “but hampered | by. - communication for Highway y 16 | Chains’or winter: tires ‘are to go fishing | for herring | Fishermen of the Prince Ru-; pert Fishermen's. Co-Operative! ussociation are going to go fish- ing for herring. as soon as the. Prince George over the New Year weekend, a Department of Highways. spokesman said today. | He said the road conditions { are in general winter condi- | tion with slippery sections in ‘Norman Bellis, plant produc- | many areas. tion manager at the Co-Op’s! . Fairview plant said that ab| Snow-ploughing and sanding ; operations are underway. meetings in Vancouver and’ Prince Rupert held Monday | ?????**errrerrererereoravervrce night, the membership voted to} eontinue fishing. - Nurses get raise He said that us owners of their! SALMON ARM @—An increase own, business the membership of $20.2 month takes effect, Jan- favored going after the herring vary 1. for nurses at Shuswap despite the fact that the market; General Hospital, with other in- ‘ds very depressed." Mr, Bellis| creases in the next four years of said Co-Op fishermen would!® new contract, The general continue fishing as long as pos-}duby nurse will henceforth get sible in the New Year, $280 a month to start. ~ World News Briefs LONDON British newspapers today were sharply divided In their reacwWion to President Bisenhower’s announce- ment that the United Stutes has no Inmediate plans to resume nuclear testing although it considers itso! “free” to do so, , . MONTREAL () — Nogotiations are under way for return of the Polish treasures held by Quebec, Premier Paul Sauve ‘Indicated Tuesday night. Mr. Sauve sald he hopes agree- ment can be reached ,to retun tho art objects and crown jewels--thelr value has been estimated at $50,000,000—held by Quebee sinee they were smuggled out of Poland during the Second World War, eee a * =) TMAVANA,: Cuba (—Promer Pldel Cusbro's agents sald Tuesday: tay have smashed threo major plots to solze a navy - arsennl, create an “anti-Communist army” and wage a terrorist campugn with dynamite, Rural police and agents of Castro's now departniont of investigution for the armed forces said 42 persons wore arrested, including Eugenio da Sosa Chabau, a former nowspaper director * PARIS (%—France’s national TV. notwork was blacked oul Tuesday and the radio notwork carried one recording, Service Ax expected too he normal today bul Interrupted again , Mhursday, Friday and Sunday, An on-and-off strike by toch- ynlelans, artists, nowseustors and administration workors, 4s ‘the cnuso of the apolty sortico, a BONN, Gormiany (1 NAN outbronk of antl-Somitlam, with grin Naval overtones, Nas Chancellor Konrad Adoniauor's govern- “mont worrled, ‘Two now reports of antl-Bomitic acts wore received hore Tuosday as wthorities moved against tho Ohristmns Evo dosecrators of © synagogue and a memorial to Naval Vietims In Coloune. » WASHINGTON (1--Tho United States oud Britain are: fre- Ing a new aorlsis in thelr negotintions with Russian for an onforconble tronty outlawing test explosions of nuclear. won- pons. It may reach a hond soon aftor the throo-power talks Yosummo January 12 {n Genova, The arlals contres around doe. Velopnient of an International inspection system atrong enough “Wo. etscourage cheating with sneak explosions, re . ' e , . 4 wo | 1 moa ; i 1959" BOSTON. (AP)—Thousands of p persons s fled their mes, hundreds were rescued’ and damage’ was re- corded in the millions from-a record ocean'tide which ve: New England: ‘one of its worst coastal floods of 4 Communities along 30 iniles of be “Greater Boston Shoreline ufferéd the brunt of the: flood 14.3 feet—brought* ocean. ORONTO ©): —. Raw. Arctic show. into Southern. Ontario as | : ‘winds followed freezing rain. and | crews continued working. today: store electricity to an estimated | - caused - “by, ice: freezing on lines in... ‘Sunday's. -breakdowns—were. trying to re- : hammered: al required if motorists are plan- ning to drive to. Terrace jor. devastation ‘although — the ate} lantic Ocean spurted a stormy. angery sea along the: whole coast Tuesday. - . The: highest tide’ in: 108. ye “ators to a depth of seven feet on'some - {Streets and: into: the. ‘first floors of Iany, homes. '- j ‘The flood tides were’ fiven t by _{a‘northeast storm.,whicH'batter-|.~ ed. the: northeast . United. States : for. the-second. successive. day. 16 ‘INCHES. OF SNOW The storm Tuesday dropped up t to 16 inches ‘of snow in New. Eng- Jand but not until the flood: tides swirled into residential-commun- | ities were so many: lives threat- ened and.was so much ‘damage. caused. At blamed on the storm in the six New England states. - a More than ..700: ‘families. were least nine deaths were |, . % ? ’ Flint, St: Matthew high school: (Michigan State ‘University. They forced to-flee their homes from }\*” the town of- “Hull, on Boston's |: south ‘shore. -Scores. of ‘women and children were ‘plucked from |: = windows : ‘by .rescuers.. RUSH TO: AID... Coast guard craft and pr ivate rok wh ‘Pelting. ra SAVED BY PATROLMAN ” Hull. orded.* There also were evacuations and rescues in Quincy, Scituate, and Cohasset on the south shore and at Revere, Wintrhop and Nahant north of Boston. At. Scituate, Mrs. June Ragge was looking .out her window when the ocean broke through the sea wall there. “Then came tons of stone,” she said, water cascaded across the road. My children panicked. I called police and they got us out.” SAVED BY LIGHT MAN Later she remembered she had not shut off the gas and electri+|* city and an Edison Electric Com- pany man rowed her back to the house,” On the way back to safe- out of the boat into the. icy water,. The. Edison man saved 1 | her, At. Camp Ells, in Maine, an unoccupied house washed into Casco Bay. Scores of parked cars suffered sca water damage when they were flooded up to window height along streets and in in- dustrial parking lots on’ tho Bos- ton waterfront, STOCK DAMAGED, LOST Mercantile establishments ro- ported hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage loss when stock stored in cellars hocame sonkod.,. | The hazard from wet wiring forced power companios Jn the New England flood areas to cut off the power supply. Other crows shut off water and gas Ines in fear’ that the pounding sea would cause them to spring lors, SOOO IPIOLONIETI IONE RELIEF CARRIER BOY OBJECT OF ANGRY SUBSCRIBER'S IRE The spirit of goodwill atl Christmas Limo dies carly iv ‘young carrier boy loarned . today, A relief warrior for Tho Daily News who has beon taking the place of a carrior who sprained his anklo, missed w-sub- seribor on Eleventh Avonue Hast last night, The Jrate subsorlbor phoned Tho Dally Nows circulation dopartmoent today domanding his paper immediately, Ho wouldn't’ be! satisfied, he sald, if last night's paper was doliverad with tonight's, ho wanted tho boy to mako a trip to his place this morning, On the one hand ha binsted Tho Dilly Nows for not bolng worth the money because thore ts “nothing in it anyway” but still inalated that ho have it: dollvered right away. Monntime tho carrvioy boy hag Instructions to dollvor yoatorday's edition to tho confused gentleman along with tonight's: papor, POPOPOP OD. PONPOP IIOP OINIGS reeecscncecnsncvecsesagenessesesneees boats ‘were:. -Tushed; , bo: the: scene os ‘Patrolman’ Paul Dunn. waded trians 5 the last | shouldér-deep in water to: ‘rescue two women’and two children: in Other deeds of heroism were ‘noticed but went unrec- “and: ty, a gust of wind knocked her} B: C. ROUNDUP Superintendent: of: Motor warned. “For this reason, law enforcement officers: cannot. be ‘lenient with those motorists who] are guilty of flagrant violations, particularly the law against op- erating a vehicle while under the]. influence: of, intoxicants. Mr. Lindsay said: ‘Whether you intend to go to a New Year’s Eve party or go to.a watchnight service in your church, drive with extra care this last night of the year. ing—from your car across the street, or for several blocks, or along a country road—remember that some drivers may not be alert.to your presence on the roadway.” He also urged pedestrians to “wear something white at night —such as a scarf or gloves,” -Needs money KAMLOOPS @ — Alfred Claudpierre, a German immi- . grant whose 15-year-old son ‘has been missing since Nov. 12, sald Tuesday he must get his sawmill job back before he will be able to continue the hunt for his son, Mr. Claudpierre said he will go to “all lengths” to find the boy but “all my money is’ gone.” We said he must return to work to finance continued searching, To query firings - KELOWNA (i—Dismissal of 18 loggers from jobs at a portabla sawmill noar Radium, B.C. will, be challenged on’ grounds they wero dismissed “hi contravene tlon of the Labor Relations Act,” AB union spokesman sald Tuesday, J. Clayton Walls, Interlor re- gional director of the Intema- tlonnl Woodworkors of Americo PIIIDPDIOPDODODIODI DI ichampion ‘and Olympic star, “married ‘John -M.. eine of P their Tren Vehicles , said. today... “ “Death. takes: no holiday,” he | When you’re walk-| ° . A MY hha ath dod hb RBA wet Aad aw * Carter,’ ‘Saturday at St. John’s church in East Lansing, Michigan: : ‘The® LG bridegroom, a native..of. Lansing; now: teaches: and*. coaches’ at The couple. had: .both attended will make their:home in Flint. oe CP from: “AP: Photo. ; ‘George ‘Lindsay 7 (CLES, said’ ‘the. 18 -men. aywere | disiiissed by Wilder Bros, Lum-. ber: Company Dec. ‘8, the day after they had formed an IWA local: Raid offices | VANCOUVER ()—RCMP have raised the offices of. stock: pro- moter George Caldough = after an inquiry started by the provin- cial superintendent of brokers... Caldough was host to Errol . Flynn when the swashbuckling movie star died here in October.. Stuart Smith, superintendent of brokers, said Tuesday in Vic- toria the ingijiry was initiated by his office through RCMP. Season‘s luck late NANAIMO (@—The deer Sen son makes no allowances’ ‘for luck, Willam Thomas discovered — when. fined $50 for killing a deer’ out of season, Thomas’ ‘luck came when he saw a deer swim- ming near shore at Departure. Bay, clubbed it and dragged it in his boat. Court told him the fine would have been $100. had he not heen unemployed. eon Woman suffers: minor injuries” in. street mishap Reported in “good condition” today in Prince Rupert General hospital is Mrs, Gladys Gray. of Cow Bay wno recotved only min- or Injurles to ,the leg after bo- | ing in colllaion with a car driv- en by Rodney Philippson of 1806 Graham Avonua, The aceldent occurred uh 10:35 at the Intersection of Second ‘Avenue and Third Street lost night, RCMP said this morning that the road surface was quite slip- pery at the time of the aceld- ent and that no chargos ° were contemplated, ee WEATHER— Mostly = sunny Thursday, Colder, Winds northwesterly "20, Low tonight and high Thursday 28 and 40, TIDES— Thursday, Doc, 31, 1050: (Pacific Standard The): High teens OBB) 21,8 foot 14:18 23.7 feet LOW cass OBE1G.. 5,6. foot 20:53. 0.4 feat ijk a eek tc det AKA a MO Bo ew dt wptr oBdA tt 2d dh dA wm A wR De