Prince Rupert Daily News Wednesday, May 21, 1952 tract for the material with the government-operated Crown Assets Disposal Corporation. r. K.. Latshley. counsel for Island Loggers Killed While fallinnk LAKE COWICHAN Two i 3 I"w loggers working as partners on a 1 n Z a, T Ulw " n power saw were killed Tuesday j ,hp lmlwt to,)k 8p when a towering tree thev were lasn blow at l.,,,,' Steady Losses in Stores Blamed On Shoplifters Mostly Women giancea elanrprt nff off a Jagged ij n rfifri Vlunte .... i- cuiiing to the snag and it crashed Drnmirl jCapt. Baldock, questioned Maj. I for scrap metal. I Evidence introduced by W. T. I Co'lum, Canadian Pacific Rail- ways freight agent, was that during 1950 and 1951. a total ol 626.200 pounds of scrap metal j Reeves at length "on security ' measures at Petawawa. He asked I the major if he would be sur- 1.., ... , 1 utie.i.tt unrtPhin vrua ra uiiaer ine iron when . ... n . direction of IU fall was changed with a ,7" !allin I crow hv the rolllslnn iam. di,ii .'. 01 'X nihl. 9 TORONTO (CP; Each year some 1.000 shoplifters appear in Toronto courts, and the majority are women. The oftcnden range from small boys looking for pocket-Kinves to wealthy married Mysterious Camp Revealed In Theft Hearing r. ... .. " , Hpi'rt n ur n. 5tJ IIDS. Zl. MP fllPrt lnanltr . . . J rt trfe arid I r . ciHsnea down ' prised to know that trucks went in and out of the camp without ! "With what's gone on no sir," with the metal. Maj. Reeves said he asked Capt. Baldock about it and was told that the Eisens were merely making up for an under-estimated load from a previous contract. He found later the Pembroke company had had no contract had been shipped from a siding In Petawawa camp by the Jacob-son Iron Company of Brockville. J. W. Pickup of Toronto, special crown prosecutor, Introduced documents showing that in the two years. 93.930 pounds of material had been authorized and paid for by the company. The company had held a con CONGRATULATIONS r J-. -j- i '-J.-..; ,1 i I - 4 I d- Krl A'- 1 1'.. t.i.H to ! clearance slips. j Maj. Reeves replied. He said it might be possible for any officer in camp to sign a slip that would I be honored by the guard at the gate. The hearing is continuing. All I accused have chosen to be tried by a higher court. omen merely looking for ex- PEMBROKE, Ont. P Extste-iiiicment Ine amateurs and, ence of a mysterious "Camp X" p,oie..sionals between them take was revealed in magistrate's clothing, cots and canoes; tirt court here during evidence at ana teiius aimost anything that the ppelimlnary hearing of seven t nailed down. i men on charges of conspiracy ine number of arrests is going and theft, up thanks- to alert detective Military officers called as wlt-auilis m the bigger atores, but rresses mentioned the Camp X, the same establishments still which they said was within the lose thousands of dollars annu- borders of Petawawa camp. All Mi to thieves. Most of those of them declined to give further anested are amateurs; the real details about it. The Automatic laundry Limited on providing a service entirely new to Prince Rupert. The camp commandant. Col. Duncan Douglas, said it was a classified project and added: ."I problem Is the professional shop-uiier who worKs a regular circuit of the major cities. RUPERT RADIO & ELECTRIC CONGRATULATES- - AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY LTD. Vilnlr thai Ic Rilfflrlpnt. tnr vnnr FAVORITE TRICKS "."" ' One of the gimmicks mast f av- Thp spvvn are accused of oar- 1IIRi:K-I.(i(ii:i CALF A rircus freak in their own back J-aid is the pride of Paul Bench, 3, and his brother Lloyd, 7, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Brneh, on a farm near St. Catharines. Ont. Their three-legged calf, born two wveks ago, frolics as well as eny normal calf despite the fact that it lacks a left front leg. I CP PHOTO) O Grant & Newton . ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone 229 creu oy the snoplilting "elite" is tlcipating in recent large-scale the booster box. A plain card-: tnef ts at tne camp. Evidence was Loalu carton, wrapped in brown tnat tw0 of them, Morris and paper, it has no bottom and the Harry gisen who operate the ..lues are lined with metal Pembroke Salvage Company, had springs. The box is qtwetly placed a contract to clear debris from On providing a New Service in Prince Rupert (.. J" j Lii a counter oi jeweiry or cmnu- , rmr X 5,000 men who will train at the camp this summer. In the last 12 months, 60 new buildings have been constructed The others are Capt. D. W. ware over two or three articles which are secured on tne inside Big Alberta Camp Equipped To Hilt For New Soldiers the - booster ' ambles away on the training ground at a cost i and with his loot. ine women are fond of bloomers which form klng-sii.e pockets imdtr a start. The female shoplifter rapidly gains weight as dresses are tuckeu away Baldock, former army engineer at the camp, S. Sgt. J. M. Young of Frederlcton, and Jack Jacob-son. David C. Mawhlnney and Amos Durant, all of Brockville Jacobson is owner of the Jacob-son Iron Company, Brockville. Capt. Baldock and S. Sgt. Young also each face two charges of "breach of trust " First mention of Camp X was of nearly $8,000,000. The hospital has been expanded from little more than a first-aid centre to a fully-equipped, 96-bed institution. Protestant and Catholic chapels are under construction. 1 1 'V III In addition to these buildings STEADY LOSSES there are four canteens, orderly i Some prefer the bold method, rooms, administration offices, A laige tru:k parked In front of quartermaster stores and a large ( a smail store Oil one occasion, gun storage and repair hangar. men dressed in overalls mov There is even a new 25-cell cd in and moved out a grand detention barracks under con- piano. They duly signed a re-struction which will have an Ceipt for a store employee and emergency apparatus to release then drove off, never to be seen all prisoners from their cells again. simultaneously with the mere, it is usually the little things given in testimony by Maj. R. R. . Munro. deputy assistant adjutant ; and quarter-master general at Ottawa. ; Maj. Munro told of seeing a i truck from the Eisens' company ; loaded with metal, including ; what he thought to be the cupola . of an army tank. Under cross-', examination, he said he saw the truck on the road bordering Ik 1 WA IN WRIGHT, Alta. iff.' Hardened war veterans would blink with astonishment if they could sec the modern Waiwright military camp, a self-contained little "city" 130 miles east of Edmonton. . Days of the leaky hut and the sagging bunk are gone forever from the vast, 140,000-acre training ground. Soldiers at Wainwright spend their days in modern quonset barracks equipped with air conditioning, fluorescent lighting, controlled heating, rubber-tile floors and all the comforts of home even some comforts you don't find in a home. What soldier .of even recent service would have dreamed of going to a training camp where he would have a swimming pool, bowling alleys, gymnasiums, a specially-constructed theatre. pressing of a lever. that trip up the professional Mi A C1!, I,, Preparations also are being shoplifter like the man who got v 3 If I madp to sow the area with crass auuu u-itv, a nnn nH ai tamp A. to reduce the nuisance of drifting Questioned further he said he nabbed when he returned for the i . . "INGLIS" Automatic Washers sand. I mrtrilri ! tnougnt mat oniy ueience Min v.1 in- One of the camp's bieeest Drob- . ister Claxton could release lormaiion aooui camp a I Pr'inti ui'm . A ll Maj. J. H. Reeves, Petawawa Installed bv lems is an adequate water supply. At present water is pumped from a series of wells in the vicinity of the camn. high alkal.ne content an dengln-eers have decided that all the water must be pumped from the lake Into the nearby Battle river. Then fresh water" will be s.-ccurity officer and camp cngin-! eer since last October, said the Eisens' company had a contract ' for clearing debris from Camp R J row fj 00,0 m shopping centre, tennis and bad-1 WATER A PROBLEM RUPERT RADIO & ELECTRIC minton courts and baseball and softball diamonds. 5,000 Tt) TRAIN The answer to the problem is pumped back in from the river to a body of water about nine miles re-fill the lake. The job is now Irom the built-up area of the under way and a pipeline is being camp known as Betty Lake. The laid to carry the water to the X. Debris consisted of objects such as tree trunks, brush and 1 stumps. Maj. Reeves said Maj. 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