PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PROVINCIAL LIB.T13T, B. C. hMORROW'S VI':rO.TI, 5. C. -TIDES Sot 1 ,1,1,,)', June 28, 19S3-,1(,jHC .standard Time) Daily ... 0:11 20 5 feet 13:25 17 9 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VJ Delivery S ! .... 7:04 2.4 feet 18:54 8.1 feet Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 . VOL. XL1I, No. 147 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS r .. U ' '? "r f-rjmw iftgre! IF Wrnmn mm Stoo TTWfi l . - it Past Records Read Before Magistrate Four young men received prison sentences in police court yesterday ranging from six months to two years for. breaking into the government liquor store here June 13 and stealing $9,503. It i -Mlk. Christie Sentenced To Hang Jury Rejects Defence Plea By The Canadian Press LONDON. John K. The robbery was termed the tenced to two years in the penitentiary. Six months later he drew another similar term, then year term and also a second term In an industrial school, Fraser has been booted ..Tin ,J' ;-"- T ' " 1 "lmM'K ? ,im' 9 " . , '1'"" ' ' A5" 4 . ' ' ' &i -:. i -.a tr W. " 1" "l rr ifi mi around by society since his childhood. A long prison term Sightseeing Boats Christie, the self-confess ed strangler of seven now would do little to benefit him or society- I believe that, given a chance, he'll straighten I THE LAND ROUKI) In Its summer garb, a fleet of sightseeing boats from Wisconsin Dells, chu(,'.s upriver In formation to announce the opening of the vacation season. The boats u)ards of 200,000 persons from all parts of the nation during the summer season. women, was convicted cf himself , out," Mr.- Hogarth largest ever perpetrated In Prince Rupert. Sentenced were Irvinir Fraser, 22, of Saint John, N.B., two years: Joe Giordano, 26, and Ray Deblasio, 24, both of Montreal, one year each; James D. Cripps, 27, of Prince Rupert, six months. Fraser's past record of convictions and prison terms accounted for the stiffer sentence, said Magistrate W- D. Vance. The magistrate also held Fraser, Deblasio and Giordano as "instigators" of the crime, who approached Cripps for the loan of his truck. Cripps. without counsel, told court that two weeks preceding the theft, the three harj approached him and offered htm $200 for the use of his truck . . . "to take'out some girls . . ." murder today and sen u-nced to die. pleaded. VROUGH LIVES" Laurent Continues Attack Deblasio and Giordano also An Old Bailey Jury of nine men and three women found n Pro-Con Election Promises had "rough lives," said Mr. Hogarth. Debjlaslo, one of 10 children, had no trade and little education, was born and raised the 55-year-old wartime police man san, thus rejecting a de fence plea that he was as "mad night. Minister fit. Laurent kept up the lion. George Drew, Progressive Liberal assault on the Drew in Montreal. He had no pre1 vious convictions. as a March hare." ' 3i I'll" (.klKKllMII PrfHH iniiim pot, boiling vigor-ir the Inst few days, sim-'Jnwn slightly Wednesday Conservative leader, was out of Giordano, the eldest of the action until tonight. But Prime Christie "was tried specifically only for murdering his 54-year- three, lost his father when he was six years old, and since had old wife, Ethel, but frankly ad He said he had not known of the robbery plan until the day It took place, when he join election manifesto. And in Regina. CCP leader M. J. C'olriwell indicated in an address that he exacts his party In te In a "strategic" position ifter voting Aug. 10. The Liberies would lose a lot of seats and the CTF make substantial gains. Mr. St. Laurent, on tour In WRY HELPS RECOVER to support his invalid mother. He had been honestly employed with exception of one offense on which he" drew six months. ed the group. Deblasio spoke after Magls El'ROPEAN CARS seem to be getting smaller and smaller, but they haven't reached this stage yet. This is actually a perambulator de luxe, featuring a sliding glass top, full-vision windshield, and handsome chrome bumper. Grandma Is on hand to provide the motive force. . milted strangling six other younger women In outbursts of sexual hysteria over a period of 10 years. The jury deliberated an hour and 22 minutes. The mild-appearing former trate Vance disallowed an ad journment requested by Doug Hogarth, counsel for the three agricultural western Ontario, aimed his blows at the Progres of the quartet in the prisoner's Cripps, said T W. Brdwn, QC, prosecutor, had no previous record. Mr. Brown said about $500 was still missing from th? amount which liquor store ven-dor David Bain .said was taken. box sive Conservative promise of a national agricultural board to 19-Year-Old Canadian Girl Wins British Golf Crown all in rr transport clerk was convicted In a case that shocked the nation and was described by the iudflt as "horrible and horrifying." , t'LKNt'HEO JAW wt "fair floor -prices--rHated to farm production costs." "We were in it. all four of us CARRIER'S LOST BIKE liliyi:le, missing fur a week, was found by its young r yr.itrrday after the mother of another boy read the in The Daily News. '!iin Roberts, a Dally News carrier, offered a reward of ' .r information laliii l -the recovery vf his bicycle,' iK fiom where he parked It June 17 near the newspaper ly-yf.tr-oltl Billy Nicol saw tlio bike lying In the bushes Mursc Creek. He told his mother who had Just finished i:rj the story atjout the lost bike. " Hut Mrs. Nicol would not accept the $10 reward when Brian acd hi;; bike. Brian gave Billy $1, anyway. ... :,. together. Nobody Is more guilty. He described the plank to a RINGLEADERS" While the accused men had PORTHCAWL, Wales (CP) Wlngham, Out., audience as a vague promise. If it meant a board setting floor prices wheth co-operated In taking police to ether money missing earlier, Machine-like Marlene Stewart, the gallery gossips In full cry. The short, sturdy Canadian girl, with her prim manner and this could not be overlooked, he Canada's golfing prodigy, today won the British Women's Ama er there was a market at that air of . intense concentration. Christie's face blanched and he clenched his lean jaws as he heard that he was to be "hanged by the. neck , until dead." Justice Sir Gerald Finnemore described , the sex-murder, orgy said. price, "how long do you really teur Open championship with Mr. Brown referred to the robbery as "the largest ever an easy victory over Ireland s Philomena Garvey. think that form, of socialized agriculture Would last;. . ?" '. . If it meant the government We first talked about It two weeks before, we wanted to use his (Cripps's) truck, then he said he needed some money too so he came in with us," said Deblasio. "We didn't ask him to eome, he Insisted." "Did you offer Cripps $200 for the use of his truck?" asked the magistrate. "Yes', that if true about the truck ..." ; "Then you had the Idea first, before Cripps did," said the reached the final with victories Wednesday over Scotland's Jean Donald 1 up and England's Elizabeth Price 6 and 4. Miss Price; recently acclaimed perpetrated In this city." He said the maximum sentence was The 19-year-old "Little Miss paying a high price to the farm ag '"horrible ana norruymg, and perhaps without precedent 14 years, but that he would not p. Envoy Arrives as Rhee Maple Leaf," as the gallery christened her, triumphed over ask for "a savage sentence.". in human history- , He referred to the three out- In solemn tones, the Judge' the classy international field In her first big tournament outside Britain's golfer of the year, was swiftly extinguished as her younger Canadian rival produced some of the sharpest golf seen on this seaside course. Marlene's mands Showdown With Reds of-town men as "ringleaders." North America. said: "I do not know whether any Jury before In this country or perhaps In the world has Miss Stewart was six up at the SAM M MMUU.IN i er and selling at a lower a subsidy "you all know that we would have almost no hope at all of selling our farm products !n the American market if they were subsidized by the government." Mr. Coldwell, whose party held 13 seats In the last House, said he expects substantial gains because "the CCF pioneered every magistrate- figures for the first 14 holes which our two countries have contributed so deeply in blood halfway mark of the 36-hole final seen and heard a man charged with murder step into the wit Mr. Hogarth, speaking on be and treasure " and ended the contest with a 7iwe three Under lours, a stan-and 6 count. &&r& only a top-ranking profes- half of his clients, said Fraser ness box and say to the Jury. The nert. Canadian mlis six ; slonai eoma nave Detterea. Yes, I did kill this victim. I Robertson Is expected to meet Rhee at 9:30 a.m. (5:30 pm. PDT U)day. . inches shorter than her Irish killed six others as well over period of 10 years." " Aussie Cricket Team Manager Denies Charge LONDON (AP) George Da-vies, manager of the Australiai touring cricket team meetlnj "never had a chance" and that a stiff .prison sentence would not do him or society very much good. WORKED ON FARM opponent, really hit her stride His message presumably is ln- piece of good social and econO' it, (AP) A personal nutive of President Eis-r arrived in Seoul today n urgent, secret message at winning President in Rhie over to a quick m Allii-d terms-I'S state department's -t cliief, Walter S Rob-will meet Rhee Friday rrltiral faee-to-face ta'k Sir Gerald addressed the jury tended to bring the 7H-year-oia mic legislation. I say it without in the last five holes of the first 18, playing them In better than par figures to complete the round after Christie's defence counsel nresident into line with a truce ifear of contradiction." . . i, . . , ..i .4 l... r.. I Fraser was born In Saint mat. was an uui siK , , lhpr anrf prr,ressive Con made an impassioned plea for a verdict of "guilty but Insane" Sockcye Fishing Light First Day Sockcye fishing on the Skeena got off to a slow start yesterday with high boat reported to have taken 14 fish. Naas River report has not yet in -72. John, New Bruswlck, was an Rhee stymied it at least tem servatives, he said, voted down Up to the 13th it had been nip and the crown prosecutor coun orphan and at the age of 12 CC.'F social and economic pro tered with a flat demand for a and tuck. Miss Stewart, wearing a grey skirt and cardigan with "ay he a showdown be- posals, then took up the Issues when they became popular. guilty finding. "NO MOTIVE" was, been received. Vivid peaked tartan beret, S'HiHi Korea and its blg-ly- the United States. Canada needed a national one up at the'ninth. health Insurance plan, national Christie was detached through The 19-year-old golfer from 'on arrived just after demanded a "showdown with a grade IV education was "farmed out" to work for a farmer. ' He ran away, said Hogarth, because of bad treatment. When he was recaptured he was sent to a boys' industrial school. At 14, he committed an offence of robbery and was sen The department of fisheries here also announced that a 24-hour extension has been granted to net fishermen this week, mak- out the morning as Derek Cur England today In the second o five test matches, denied tha his players spend too much.ynn at parties and drinking beer. , The Daily Telegraph said earlier that the Australian cricke team Is in bad shape because o: too much social life and nn enough concentration on th( business at hand. tFonthill, Ont., was the first housing program, federal aid to education, lower taxes and better lommunists now as porarily by arbitrarily releasing 27,000 antiRfd Korean nrlsoners. Since then, armistice hopes have hung suspended between fears of what Rhee will do next and how the Reds will react. R net's speech came on the third anniversary of the Korean war a day that only a week :igo was expected to be a Ko-;ean armistics day Rhee spoke defiantly from the battle-scarred capital building Canadian to reach the final in tis-Bennett, one of Britain s most prominent criminal law "e from the capital social security. Interest rates on the British women's amateur, ilng the week-end closing date houslnc should be dropped to and the way Marlene did It nan : Saturday , 6 p.m. yers, demanded: "The mans crazy, Isn't he?" and painted a hv the cheers of 500.000 Koreans. Rhee again de-d unification of North two per cent from 5' and mort picture of Christie as a killer gage terms should extend to 30 "nth Korea by treaty or who slew his wife without mo years from 20. The Telegraph corresponded s and refused any ormls- tlve beyond a desire to ease her He took. a swing at Mr. Drews 'imiit It. with the team is distressed be cause "tales of beer drinkin 16-point manifesto, describing it In his acing, scratchy voice. rtson flew here hurrlrdiv as ; trie most caicuiaieu jeue ui Wlishlntrlnn u;tl.h n thnrt. Our hopes are almost gone. icceit" since William Aberhart. bouts and terrific social partle are no longer things that can bt hushed up." first Sx:ial Credit premier of he said, referring to nis own terms for truce. Alberta, promised the people $25 There must be a showdown a month. Then he complains: "Cricket to Australians, par with the Communists now.. suffering as she writhed in a, convulsion. - Terming Christie "an object of pity rather than of horror," Curtis-Bennett told the jury: "He Is a man who should be locked up for the rest of his life." During the trial, which lasted four days, Christie confessed to gassing or garrotting at ' least six women in waves of sex lust If we win It. as we surely in Tokyo. 'Ill newspaper men South and the UN should strive ''leve not only peace with b'lt also a free, united, '"'"lit Korea." Isi"n now could only re-1 victory for the enemy "Wcss sacrifice of all for Mr. Drew makes his first bid in Quebec for support with an address In French tonight In will." said Rhee,- "Korea win dp ticularly the older members of the side, has taken second place tc unnecessary social activities unified, if not. we will ngni on to crush the enemy until every . It's giving this touring side one of us dies Quebec City. At Codettc, Sask., John Dief-nbaker, a senior Progressive Conservative member of Parliament, said the Liberal govern He said South Korea snotnn the worst reputation of any which ever has come to England." . ' he eiven the freedom to "fight and what was described as the mercy killing of his wife. on. If by ourselves ... to de WEATHER- Synopsis The second of five test cricket Technically, he was on trial cide our own fate by our own only for killing his wife. His hands." matches between the two countries opened today and at lunch time the Australian batsmen had Althouch Rhee s speecn snow formal plea was "not guilty." (See earlier story Page 11) 'a PC v - . , I F-n - ;!(.'' - 1 5 -.. l 1, I 'i 1 i "-' '.v j o O TA k : 'd I- - 4J A . . . rj ':--i--T-.r-; -v ed no hint of a change in his scored 88 for one wicket. " continues to elude the as the Pacific high rp ureas remain obstln-l! sea. in addition a minor nnce is developing over nnlicv both Rhee ana Kooeri- ment set aside the wheat board ind only brought It back In 1941 under pressure of war. At Plctou, N.S., Resources Minister Winters said the Progressive Conservatives could not reduce the federal budget $500,-000,000 a year as promised in their election manifesto without cutting social benefits. The first test ended in a draw. son earlier expressed hope their crucial face-to-face meeting could find a way to an armistice in this war-ravaged Coun '"hern districts. It will lnly southward riurlni? the Britain Protests Russian Shooting BERLIN (API British Major- 4 hours .maintaining cloud try. lv n areas and causing General C. F. C. Coleman pro "sai showers. orecasj ! 11 const region: Cloudy to' Friday. Clearing par GUN CLUB MEET CALLED BECAUSE SPEAKER SICK tested Wednesday to the Soviet commandant of East Berlin over the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old German boy by Communist police. The victim, Wolfgang Roch-ling.was killed Monday while a Holdup Men Use Dump Truck In Robbery LONDON (AP) Masked men smashed a five-ton dump truck into a small payroll truck, beat up the driver and his assistant and drove off with 5,000 Wednesday in a holdup. Police said, one man drove the dump truck while three others pulled up In another car In which all foui made their getaway In less than a minute. nnrt.hern areas Friday Occasional Ilirht rain Jnd a few showers Friday pecial meeting of the Rod & Gun Club scheduled for A S! ..i.,v,t has been cancelled aue vo - o "8 ! lls southwesterly 20 in ex-arw today and tnnieht few yards inside the British '' light.- Low tonight and sector. He had been shouting taunts and throwing rocks at Red police guarding the Russian official northern delegate to Geoff Lamblcy, of Terrace, Council convention was to make a the BO. Fish and Game report tonight, but took ill suddenly. A PARISIENNE who took a shine' to the trade sets up shop beside the male bootblacks who work this busy square at the terminal point of tour Paris bus lines. 'oaay at Port Hardy, 50 Sandspit and Prince sector border. and B2.